bump the so version to 1.7.8

Issue-ID: SO-3256

Signed-off-by: seshukm <seshu.kumar.m@huawei.com>
Change-Id: Id0eada5019f766a470954ba2853b835e770fb0d8
diff --git a/version.properties b/version.properties
index f6e4c90..74801da 100644
--- a/version.properties
+++ b/version.properties
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 major=1
 minor=7
-patch=7
+patch=8
 
 base_version=${major}.${minor}.${patch}