v8.0.0

Major features and improvements

• Extend support for 'Publishing and sharing Kedro-Viz' on Azure and GCP. (#1708, #1711)
• Migrate Kedro-Viz to use pydantic>=2. (#1743)
• Drop support for python=3.8. (#1747)
• Introduce new changes to the preview functionality on Kedro-viz (#1757)
• Refactor Kedro-Viz and Kedro-datasets dependencies. (#1698)

Bug fixes and other changes

• Enable search-as-you-type on Kedro-Viz docs. (#1727)
• Change the %run_viz line magic to open Kedro-viz in a new browser tab. (#1722)
• Enable %run_viz line magic to use the arguments that Kedro-Viz supports on the command line. (#1733)
• Make kedro viz build compatible with Kedro 18. (#1716)
• Add kedro-datasets compatibility warning for Experiment Tracking. (#1767)
• Fix bug on preview length in metadata modal. (#1767)