This is an alpha release of `GCRCatalogs` v0.8.0. We plan to release v0.8.0 in about a week, for the CMU Collaboration Meeting.
There have been many updates since v0.7.x. Most notably, there are readers for DC2 Coadd Catalogs, DC2 Reference Catalogs, DC2 Instance Catalogs, and also focal planes. A full change list can be found [here](https://github.com/LSSTDESC/gcr-catalogs/compare/v0.7.8...v0.8.0-alpha).