In addition to what schmichael mentioned: You linked to the general release history front page, which in the future will display nothing about the 1.8 release.

In addition to what schmichael mentioned: You linked to the general release history front page, which in the future will display nothing about the 1.8 release. You should have linked to a page that is not expected to change as time passes. This is why we use permalinks for blogposts rather than linking to the front page of some blog.