Release v2.8.1

Author: GiovanniBussi

CHANGES/v2.8.md

@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ Changes from version 2.7 which are relevant for users:
   - Xdrfile library is now embedded and always available.
   - `--enable-rpath` now also includes the path where `libplumedKernel.so` is installed (see \issue{767}).
 
-## Version 2.8.1
+## Version 2.8.1 (Oct 21, 2022)
 
 - Includes all fixes up to 2.7.5
 - It is now possible to pass a mpi4py communicator from the Python interface.

VERSION.txt

@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@
 # (this is same as gromacs)
 # Notice that "plumed info --version" will return only 2.X
 # and "plumed info --long-version" will return the full string
-2.8.0
+2.8.1