updated README.md for v1.8.0

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@@ -34,21 +34,12 @@ Netdata is featured at <b><a href="https://octoverse.github.com/" target="_blank
 <a href="https://octoverse.github.com/" target="_blank"><img src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2662304/21743260/23ebe62c-d507-11e6-80c0-76b95f53e464.png"/></a>
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-`Jul 16th, 2017` - **[netdata v1.7.0 released!](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/releases)**
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- - netdata is now a fully featured **statsd** server - [read more here](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/statsd)
- - netdata now monitors **ZFS** of Linux and FreeBSD
- - netdata now monitors **ElasticSearch**
- - netdata now monitors **RabbitMQ**
- - netdata now monitors **Go applications** (via `expvar`) - [read more here](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/Monitoring-Go-Applications)
- - netdata now monitors **squid logs**
- - netdata now monitors **samba**
- - several **backends** improvements and enhancements, including **metrics filtering**
- - **prometheus** backend support has been rewritten
- - alarm notifications now support **custom hooks** to execute shell commands in parallel with all other notification methods
- - dozens of new and improved plugins
- - dozens of new and improved alarms
- - dozens more improvements and performance optimizations
+`Sep 17th, 2017` - **[netdata v1.8.0 released!](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/releases)**
+
+ - mainly a bug fix release - all users are advised to update this release
+ - better support for containers (`veth` interfaces are now visualized at their containers section, container sections now provide a summary view for each container)
+ - netdata can now listen on UNIX domain sockets
+ - dozens of more improvements, compatibility fixes and enhancements
 
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