GNU Unifont 8.0.01 was released on 28 June 2015. A Debian GNU/Linux package was uploaded to the Debian server on the same day.
This release reflects changes in the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane introduced in Unicode 8.0.0, whose code charts were formally released on 17 June 2015.
This release also adds about 1000 newly drawn glyphs to the Supplemental Multilingual Plane.