Release 1.8.0 Release Candidate

[markmandel]

What type of PR is this?

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/kind breaking
/kind bug
/kind cleanup
/kind documentation
/kind feature
/kind hotfix

/kind release

What this PR does / Why we need it:

Release 1.8.0 Release Candidate!

Which issue(s) this PR fixes:
Work on #1745

Special notes for your reviewer:
None

[agones-bot]

Build Succeeded 👏

Build Id: b1d70de4-cca5-44d6-9688-329a620c933c

The following development artifacts have been built, and will exist for the next 30 days:

• image: gcr.io/agones-images/agones-controller:1.8.0-6229688
• image: gcr.io/agones-images/agones-sdk:1.8.0-6229688
• image: gcr.io/agones-images/agones-ping:1.8.0-6229688
• Linux C++ SDK (build): agonessdk-1.8.0-6229688-linux-arch_64.tar.gz
• SDK Server: agonessdk-server-1.8.0-6229688.zip

A preview of the website (the last 30 builds are retained):

• https://6229688-dot-preview-dot-agones-images.appspot.com/

To install this version:

• git fetch https://github.com/googleforgames/agones.git pull/1746/head:pr_1746 && git checkout pr_1746
• helm install ./install/helm/agones --namespace agones-system --name agones --set agones.image.tag=1.8.0-6229688

[pooneh-m]

Go 1.8-RC! \o/

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[markmandel]

Wow that was fast! 😄