v1.8.0

• Added new option backgroundcolor (alias bgcolor). This provides a
  basic, \colorbox-based implementation of background colors for commands
  and environments. Added new option backgroundcolorvphantom (alias
  bgcolorvphantom) for customizing background height. Added new option
  backgroundcolorpadding (alias bgcolorpadding) for customizing padding
  between text and the edge of the region with background color.

• Added option insertenvname. This customizes the verbatim environment
  used by \VerbatimInsertBuffer.

• When numberblanklines=false, highlightlines no longer highlights blank
  lines at the end of a highlighted range (#25, gpoore/minted#226).

• An unnecessary line break is no longer inserted before the last "word" of a
  line when it is preceded by a long "word" that is broken internally as a
  result of breakbefore, breakafter, or breakanywhere (#26).

• Added option breakpreferspaces (default true). This determines whether
  line breaks are preferentially inserted at normal spaces rather than at
  other locations allowed by breakbefore, breakafter, or breakanywhere
  (#26).

• Added option breakanywhereinlinestretch (gpoore/minted#387).

• \FVExtraReadVArg now takes a multi-line (but not multi-paragraph)
  verbatim argument. The new \FVExtraReadVArgSingleLine provides the old
  functionality of taking an argument restricted to a single line
  (gpoore/minted#376).

• By default, \Verb and \SaveVerb now take multi-line (but not
  multi-paragraph) verbatim arguments. The old behavior of requiring
  verbatim arguments to be on a single line can be restored by setting the
  new option vargsingleline to true.

• Added documentation for undocumented fancyvrb option listparameters
  (gpoore/minted#256).

• Expanded breaklines documentation with discussion of limitations and
  alternatives (gpoore/minted#400).