v0.8.1

[gadenbuie]

Pre-release

• Create branch rc-v0.8.1
• Check that setup.cfg doesn't depend on git versions of packages
• Bump version in __init__.py and CHANGELOG.md
• Commit, push, create draft PR
• CI Passes

Release

• Tag commit and push (post merge?)
• Create GitHub release
  • Copy and paste new content from changelog to GH release notes
  • Check release as latest
• Wait for release to succeed on PyPI
• Bump dev version to 0.8.1.9000 #1202

Other Packages

• posit-dev/py-shinyswatch (@gadenbuie working on a PR)
  • Update to match shiny v0.8.1 py-shinyswatch#28
• posit-dev/shinywidgets
• posit-dev/shinylive
• posit-dev/py-shinylive
• posit-dev/py-shiny-site (update docs)

[wch]

In the changelog file, can you remove the empty "New features" section?

[gadenbuie]

@wch I updated the changelog and brought in the last style change that we need