Release 1.8.0

What's Changed

• Feature/Issue 298: Handle variables with duplicate dimensions by @ank1m in #299

Maintenance Updates

• chore: update pre-commit hooks by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #291, #294, #296
• Bump the pip-dependencies group with 5 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #293

Full Changelog: 1.7.0...1.8.0