Bump version number and soname

Bump to an alpha release. This version is not being widely released
but is being used to push the new shared library version through the
debian packaging system and to test out github releases.

configure.ac

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 dnl This config.in requires autoconf 2.5 or greater.
 
 AC_PREREQ([2.68])
-AC_INIT([qpdf],[7.1.1])
+AC_INIT([qpdf],[8.0.a1])
 
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
 AC_CONFIG_FILES([autoconf.mk])
@@ -29,25 +29,13 @@ LT_INIT([win32-dll])
 # * Otherwise, increment LT_REVISION
 
 # LT = libtool
-LT_CURRENT=20
-LT_AGE=2
-LT_REVISION=1
+LT_CURRENT=21
+LT_AGE=0
+LT_REVISION=0
 AC_SUBST(LT_CURRENT)
 AC_SUBST(LT_REVISION)
 AC_SUBST(LT_AGE)
 LT_SONAME=$(expr $LT_CURRENT - $LT_AGE)
-# BEGIN LT_SONAME WORKAROUND
-# For elf versioned symbols, get the soname version. Unfortunately,
-# there was a mistake at one point where we had 19 when we should have
-# had 18, so make this a special case until the next ABI change. At
-# that point, just remove the code deliminated by the LT_SONAME
-# WORKAROUND comments.
-if test $LT_SONAME = 18; then
-  LT_SONAME=19
-elif test $LT_SONAME -gt 18; then
-  AC_MSG_ERROR(Remove LT_SONAME workaround in configure.ac)
-fi
-# END LT_SONAME WORKAROUND
 AC_SUBST(LT_SONAME)
 
 AC_ARG_ENABLE(insecure-random,

libqpdf/QPDF.cc

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 #include <qpdf/QPDF_Null.hh>
 #include <qpdf/QPDF_Dictionary.hh>
 
-std::string QPDF::qpdf_version = "7.1.1";
+std::string QPDF::qpdf_version = "8.0.a1";
 
 static char const* EMPTY_PDF =
     "%PDF-1.3\n"

manual/qpdf-manual.xml

@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
 <!ENTITY mdash "&#x2014;">
 <!ENTITY ndash "&#x2013;">
 <!ENTITY nbsp "&#xA0;">
-<!ENTITY swversion "7.1.1">
-<!ENTITY lastreleased "February 4, 2018">
+<!ENTITY swversion "8.0.a1">
+<!ENTITY lastreleased "February 20, 2018">
 ]>
 <book>
  <bookinfo>