Beta 0.8.0

Note: identical to 1.0.0rc9

Major Changes

• [Major] Glocal Modelling V2: Local-Global mixture models by @alfonsogarciadecorral in #1008
• [Major] Add support for Python 3.12, drop support for Python 3.8 by @ourownstory in #1544

Other Changes

• [Fix] Accessing None type config_refgressors by @ourownstory in #1536
• [Docs] update website to 1.0.0rc8 by @ourownstory in #1538
• [Devops] Upgrade dependencies to more recent range of dependencies by @ourownstory in #1543

Full Changelog: 0.7.0...0.8.0