Release announcement: Restate 0.8 has arrived 🎉

Restate 0.8 introduces several enhancements aimed at improving user experience and functionality, particularly in API management and service state control. The update includes refined interfaces for creating Restate services, such as distinct contexts for unkeyed and keyed services, and new APIs for state management that allow users to retrieve and clear state keys for specific service instances. Deterministic Promise combinators and operation timeouts have been added to the TypeScript SDK, and the endpoint creation process has been simplified with a new API. The release also features replay-aware logging, a new capability to patch service state using the Restate CLI, and enhanced deployment options in Kubernetes with a new Helm chart and operator. Additional improvements include a consistent ID format across resources and the adoption of Jemalloc as the default memory allocator to reduce fragmentation. Users are encouraged to provide feedback and engage with the community via Discord or Slack.