REL All changes prior to making the tag
REL excluding meta package
DOC nicer stats for changelog
Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/pysal/pysal into release_prep_1.8
DOC new stats for CHANGELOG
Merge branch 'release_prep_1.8' of github.com:sjsrey/pysal into release_prep_1.8

Conflicts:
	CHANGELOG.txt
DOC update release instructions
Merge pull request #504 from sjsrey/release_prep_1.8

Release prep 1.8
REL bumping master to 1.9.0dev