GSL 2.8 Released

[Patrick Alken]

Dear GSL community,

  Version 2.8 of the GNU Scientific Library (GSL) has been released. 
Thank you to all who helped test the library prior to the release, and 
thank you to everyone for using the library and giving feedback and 
reports. The following changes have been added to the library:

* What is new in gsl-2.8:

** apply patch for bug #63679 (F. Weimer)

** updated multilarge TSQR method to store ||z_2|| and
   provide it to the user

** add routines for Hermite B-spline interpolation

** fix for bug #59624

** fix for bug #59781 (M. Dunlap)

** bug fix #61094 (reported by A. Cheylus)

** add functions:
   - gsl_matrix_complex_conjugate
   - gsl_vector_complex_conj_memcpy
   - gsl_vector_complex_div_real
   - gsl_linalg_QR_lssolvem_r
   - gsl_linalg_complex_QR_lssolvem_r
   - gsl_linalg_complex_QR_QHmat_r
   - gsl_linalg_QR_UR_lssolve
   - gsl_linalg_QR_UR_lssvx
   - gsl_linalg_QR_UR_QTvec
   - gsl_linalg_QR_UU_lssvx
   - gsl_linalg_QR_UD_lssvx
   - gsl_linalg_QR_UD_QTvec
   - gsl_linalg_complex_cholesky_{decomp2,svx2,solve2,scale,scale_apply}
   - gsl_linalg_SV_{solve2,lssolve}
   - gsl_rstat_norm

** add Lebedev quadrature (gsl_integration_lebedev)

** major overhaul to the B-spline module to add
   new functionality