Update master to Honolulu

Update pom to 1.8 so that staging images are created for H release

Issue-ID: SDC-3349
Signed-off-by: ChrisC <christophe.closset@intl.att.com>
Change-Id: Ied353406c6ff40a43e7176f0c5b42408d7f4dd56
diff --git a/version.properties b/version.properties
index f9184ec..5627d16 100644
--- a/version.properties
+++ b/version.properties
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 # because they are used in Jenkins, whose plug-in doesn't support
 
 major=1
-minor=7
-patch=2
+minor=8
+patch=0
 
 base_version=${major}.${minor}.${patch}