Add v2.8.3 release notes

Signed-off-by: Milos Gajdos <milosthegajdos@gmail.com>

.mailmap

@@ -49,3 +49,6 @@ Hayley Swimelar <hswimelar@gmail.com>
 Jose D. Gomez R <jose.gomez@suse.com>
 Shengjing Zhu <zhsj@debian.org>
 Silvin Lubecki <31478878+silvin-lubecki@users.noreply.github.com>
+James Hewitt <james.hewitt@gmail.com>
+Marcus Pettersen Irgens <m@mrcus.dev>
+Ben Manuel <bmanuel@users.noreply.github.com>

releases/v2.8.3.toml

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+# commit to be tagged for new release
+commit = "HEAD"
+
+project_name = "registry"
+github_repo = "distribution/distribution"
+
+# previous release
+previous = "v2.8.2"
+
+pre_release = false
+
+preface = """\
+Welcome to the 2.8.3 release of registry!
+
+The 2.8.3 registry release fixes a few bugs and makes a few dependency updates.
+The Go runtime has been bumped to 1.20.8.
+
+See the changelog below for full list of changes.
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+* Do not close HTTP request body in HTTP handler ([#4068](https://github.com/distribution/distribution/pull/4068))
+* Set Content-Type header in registry client ReadFrom ([#4053](https://github.com/distribution/distribution/pull/4053))
+* Do not parse errors as JSON unless Content-Type is set to JSON ([#4054](https://github.com/distribution/distribution/pull/4054))
+* Enable Go build tags ([#4009](https://github.com/distribution/distribution/pull/4009))
+
+### General updates
+
+* replace deprecated function SplitHostname ([#4032](https://github.com/distribution/distribution/pull/4032))
+
+### Runtime
+
+* update to go1.20.8 ([#4056](https://github.com/distribution/distribution/pull/4056))
+
+### Dependency Changes
+
+* deprecate digestset package in favor of go-digest/digestset  ([#4064](https://github.com/distribution/distribution/pull/4064))
+* deprecate reference package, migrate to github.com/distribution/reference ([#4063](https://github.com/distribution/distribution/pull/4063))
+
+Previous release can be found at [v2.8.2](https://github.com/distribution/distribution/releases/tag/v2.8.2)
+"""

version/version.go

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ var Package = "github.com/docker/distribution"
 // the latest release tag by hand, always suffixed by "+unknown". During
 // build, it will be replaced by the actual version. The value here will be
 // used if the registry is run after a go get based install.
-var Version = "v2.8.2+unknown"
+var Version = "v2.8.3+unknown"
 
 // Revision is filled with the VCS (e.g. git) revision being used to build
 // the program at linking time.