1.8.0
MNT Add example dependencies to version bumping script (#32557)
ENH remove _xfail_checks, pass directly to check runners, return structured output from check_estimator (#30149)
MNT Apply ruff/flake8-implicit-str-concat rules (ISC) (#30695)
CI Run unit-tests with random seed on schedule and open automated issue (#32797)
MNT Update array-api-compat to 1.12 (#31388)
MNT `np.nan_to_num` -> `xpx.nan_to_num` (#32033)
MNT replace master with main (#19237)