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 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.15)
 
-project(Rec VERSION 38.7
+project(Rec VERSION 38.8
 	LANGUAGES CXX)
 
 # Enable testing with CTest/CDash
diff --git a/ReleaseNotes/v38r8.md b/ReleaseNotes/v38r8.md
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+2025-07-13 Rec v38r8
+===
+
+This version uses
+Lbcom [v37r8](../../../../Lbcom/-/tags/v37r8),
+LHCb [v57r8](../../../../LHCb/-/tags/v57r8),
+Gaudi [v39r4](../../../../Gaudi/-/tags/v39r4),
+Detector [v3r3p2](../../../../Detector/-/tags/v3r3p2) and
+LCG [106c](http://lcginfo.cern.ch/release/106c/) with ROOT 6.32.10.
+
+This version is released on the `2025-patches` branch.
+Built relative to Rec [v38r7](/../../tags/v38r7), with the following changes:
+
+### New features ~"new feature"
+
+
+
+### Fixes ~"bug fix" ~workaround
+
+
+
+### Enhancements ~enhancement
+
+
+
+### Code cleanups and changes to tests ~modernisation ~cleanup ~testing
+
+
+
+### Documentation ~Documentation
+
+
+### Other
+
+- ~Tracking | Improving BSM Efficiencies of the PrLongLivedTracking with separate SM and high mass tunings, !4434 (@pehoffma)
+- ~Tracking | PrLongLivedTracking speedup with SIMD, !4427 (@vsvintoz) [#614]
+- ~RICH | RICH Photon Reco : Tune reserve to consume less memory, !4473 (@ahennequ)
+- Update References for: LHCb!5208 based on lhcb-2025-patches-mr/588, !4489 (@lhcbsoft)
+- Add C++ algorithm to do the PV-constraint momentum estimate for L0 -> pi p, !4467 (@ldufour)
+- Avoid loading RecSummary via cppyy to reduce time/memory usage to `2025-patches`, !4466 (@msaur)
+- Update PrCloneKiller, !4464 (@decianm)
+- Follow LHCb5168, !4453 (@decianm)
+- Fix for LTIME and DLS NaNs aiming for TS, !4450 (@wmorren) [#620]
+- Velo clone killer algorithm, !4367 (@ahennequ)