ROOT v6.08/00 released!

Hi,

The ROOT team is happy to announce the release of the production version v6.08/00 - the first one in the new v6.08 series.

Download: root.cern/content/release-60800
Release notes: root.cern/doc/v608/release-notes.html

Apart from many bug fixes and performance improvements it offers several new features, for instance:
[ul]
[li] new tools for parallelism to speed up ROOT or ROOT-based analyses[/li]
[li] I/O of current C++ standard library containers and unique_ptr[/li]
[li] histogramming chains without any code, with the rootdrawtree command[/li]
[li] a ROOT Jupyter kernel[/li]
[li] full support of GCC 5 and up[/li][/ul]

A big thanks to everyone who has contributed, be it with patches and pull requests or bug reports!

Best regards,
Axel on behalf of the ROOT team