chore(main): release 1.8.0

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1.8.0 (2026-08-17)

Features

• azure: FastAPI handlers map Azure errors to 502/503 (2773f73)
• azure: local GUID validation in _check_required_config (cbac430)
• azure: typed AzureHandlerProvisionError for non-auth ARM failures (e1c4140)

Bug Fixes

• azure: clamp compute resources instead of silently defaulting (12d3c1c)
• azure: cover all ACI container states in progress() match (30c7aef)
• azure: proper error/status handling in remove() (7291ba2)
• azure: raise TimeoutError when start() poll never reaches Running (9ff7717)
• azure: treat negative container exit codes as FAILED (c221792)

Performance Improvements

• azure: single ARM fetch in progress(), skip logs until useful (b43d16d)

Miscellaneous Chores

• main: release 1.7.0 (19d8ce5)
• nudge github merge check (9122cbb)

Code Refactoring

• azure: drop print() duplicates of logger calls (2a52082)
• azure: drop racy logger.setLevel toggles (7610d3e)
• azure: lazy credential init + typed auth/config errors (51ccd5a)
• azure: structured job_uid logging via LoggerAdapter (7fca842)

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