The focus for this release is bug fixing and minor improvements

The 1.8 release have known issues when migrating from earlier versions. To avoid this use Reference system 1.8.0.1 release.

Highlights

This is mainly a bugfix release, see detailed change log at the bottom of the page.

• Validate certificates for expiration when they are loaded. 
• Add documentation for use of reference client libraries
• Update dependencies 
• Speed up integrity service in the area of statistics generation and missing file detection.
• Change to ISO time format in frontends
• Fix confusion of reported sizes (i.e. change to SI units)

Updating from 1.7

No specfic steps besides updating the binaries