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+#### v2.8.0 (2022-12-21)
+
+##### Chores
+
+* **deps:**
+  *  update dependency jquery to v3.6.3 (#11107) (13a3faa0)
+  *  update dependency eslint to v8.30.0 (#11102) (485ee130)
+  *  update dependency mocha to v10.2.0 (#11094) (c4cc1e61)
+*  up jquery (3e8f5378)
+*  remove extraneous lines from changelog (e213dbc3)
+*  incrementing version number - v2.7.0 (96cc0617)
+*  update changelog for v2.7.0 (4701c96d)
+*  incrementing version number - v2.6.1 (7e52a7a5)
+*  incrementing version number - v2.6.0 (e7fcf482)
+*  incrementing version number - v2.5.8 (dec0e7de)
+*  incrementing version number - v2.5.7 (5836bf4a)
+*  incrementing version number - v2.5.6 (c7bd7dbf)
+*  incrementing version number - v2.5.5 (3509ed94)
+*  incrementing version number - v2.5.4 (e83260ca)
+*  incrementing version number - v2.5.3 (7e922936)
+*  incrementing version number - v2.5.2 (babcd17e)
+*  incrementing version number - v2.5.1 (ce3aa950)
+*  incrementing version number - v2.5.0 (01d276cb)
+*  incrementing version number - v2.4.5 (dd3e1a28)
+*  incrementing version number - v2.4.4 (d5525c87)
+*  incrementing version number - v2.4.3 (9c647c6c)
+*  incrementing version number - v2.4.2 (3aa7b855)
+*  incrementing version number - v2.4.1 (60cbd148)
+*  incrementing version number - v2.4.0 (4834cde3)
+*  incrementing version number - v2.3.1 (d2425942)
+*  incrementing version number - v2.3.0 (046ea120)
+* **i18n:**
+  *  fallback strings for new resources: nodebb.admin-settings-email (717b3612)
+  *  fallback strings for new resources: nodebb.admin-settings-email (4f4b4800)
+
+##### New Features
+
+*  add force flag to plugin install in cli (#11089) (de31cb1a)
+*  integrating basic client-side form validity checking in settings v1 and v2 (33af2d9c)
+
+##### Bug Fixes
+
+* **deps:**
+  *  update dependency sharp to v0.31.3 (#11110) (ef500af8)
+  *  update dependency sanitize-html to v2.8.1 (#11109) (7ab46b78)
+  *  update dependency esbuild to v0.16.10 (#11104) (eb6a9c47)
+  *  update dependency mongodb to v4.13.0 (#11105) (05443dbe)
+  *  update dependency esbuild to v0.16.8 (#11101) (18ff6caa)
+  *  update dependency sanitize-html to v2.8.0 (#11098) (faaf09f7)
+  *  update dependency ace-builds to v1.14.0 (#11095) (cde44587)
+  *  update dependency nodebb-plugin-2factor to v5.1.2 (#11096) (5dda9a5b)
+  *  update dependency postcss to v8.4.20 (#11097) (0a5adb41)
+  *  update dependency compare-versions to v5.0.3 (#11092) (8b209f16)
+  *  update dependency html-to-text to v9.0.3 (#11093) (7bcfe38e)
+  *  update dependency @socket.io/redis-adapter to v8 (#11084) (7b9bbef5)
+  *  update dependency nodebb-widget-essentials to v6.0.1 (#11085) (7b48156c)
+  *  update dependency esbuild to v0.16.7 (#11086) (65ef722e)
+  *  update dependency esbuild to v0.16.3 (#11083) (4f67fc1a)
+  *  update dependency esbuild to v0.15.16 (#11069) (22493ffb)
+*  change hsts-maxage back to numeric input type, change API token uid input to numeric text type (896493db)
+*  replace input type number with text/pattern (2bc23a95)
+
+##### Refactors
+
+*  flag states so that they are not hardcoded, allow plugins to add additional states, deprecated filter:flags.getFilters hook, closes #11065 (9f531f95)
+*  remove debug log closes #11090 (06f4801e)
+
 #### v2.7.0 (2022-12-14)
 
 ##### Chores