chore(main): release 8.0.0 (#831)

Co-authored-by: Dale Hawkins <107309+dkhawk@users.noreply.github.com>

Author: googlemaps-bot

.release-please-manifest.json

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-    ".": "7.0.0"
+    ".": "8.0.0"
 }

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,16 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [8.0.0](https://github.com/googlemaps/android-maps-compose/compare/v7.0.0...v8.0.0) (2026-01-27)
+
+
+### ⚠ BREAKING CHANGES
+
+* update Maps SDK to v20.0.0 and add internal usage attribution ([#830](https://github.com/googlemaps/android-maps-compose/issues/830))
+
+### Features
+
+* update Maps SDK to v20.0.0 and add internal usage attribution ([#830](https://github.com/googlemaps/android-maps-compose/issues/830)) ([2ba9689](https://github.com/googlemaps/android-maps-compose/commit/2ba9689d2446c566129a63eb1b03d4dbf5135635))
+
 ## [7.0.0](https://github.com/googlemaps/android-maps-compose/compare/v6.12.2...v7.0.0) (2025-12-16)
 
 

README.md

@@ -29,12 +29,12 @@ You no longer need to specify the Maps SDK for Android or its Utility Library as
 
 ```groovy
 dependencies {
-    implementation 'com.google.maps.android:maps-compose:7.0.0' // {x-release-please-version}
+    implementation 'com.google.maps.android:maps-compose:8.0.0' // {x-release-please-version}
     // Optionally, you can include the Compose utils library for Clustering,
     // Street View metadata checks, etc.
-    implementation 'com.google.maps.android:maps-compose-utils:7.0.0' // {x-release-please-version}
+    implementation 'com.google.maps.android:maps-compose-utils:8.0.0' // {x-release-please-version}
     // Optionally, you can include the widgets library for ScaleBar, etc.
-    implementation 'com.google.maps.android:maps-compose-widgets:7.0.0' // {x-release-please-version}
+    implementation 'com.google.maps.android:maps-compose-widgets:8.0.0' // {x-release-please-version}
 }
 ```
 

build.gradle.kts

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ val projectArtifactId by extra { project: Project ->
 allprojects {
     group = "com.google.maps.android"
     // {x-release-please-start-version}
-    version = "7.0.0"
+    version = "8.0.0"
     // {x-release-please-end}
 }