From c83e5392c6ec7eaf95ece7dae7d4911e324a0438 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Johnson <anj@anl.gov>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2025 12:40:05 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Add release notes for changes since 7.1.7

- Jeremy Lorelli
- Dirk Zimoch
- Andrew Johnson
---
 documentation/release_notes.dox | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/documentation/release_notes.dox b/documentation/release_notes.dox
index 0b47708..4a36908 100644
--- a/documentation/release_notes.dox
+++ b/documentation/release_notes.dox
@@ -1,7 +1,16 @@
 /** @page pvarelease_notes Release Notes
 
+Release 7.1.8 (December 2025)
+=============================
+
+- Compatible changes
+  - Capped the number and age of PVA beacons to avoid a resource leak. Beacons
+    older than 360 seconds will be destroyed automatically, new beacons will be
+    ignored if >=2048 exist already.
+  - Various Clang, MSVC and GCC compiler warnings cleaned up.
+
 Release 7.1.7 (December 2023)
-==========================
+=============================
 
 - Changes
   - Registering the PVA server with the IOC now sets the `PVAS_SERVER_PORT`