v1.8.0

BlockArrays v1.8.0

Diff since v1.7.2

Merged pull requests:

• Special case blocks for non-blocked arrays (#474) (@mtfishman)
• Rename BlockedSlice from #459 to NoncontiguousBlockSlice (#479) (@mtfishman)
• Introduce BlockIndices that generalizes BlockIndexRange to non-contiguous slicing (#483) (@mtfishman)
• Bump actions/checkout from 4 to 5 (#486) (@dependabot[bot])
• Support 3-tensors in similar (#489) (@dlfivefifty)

Closed issues:

• Make blocks(randn(2, 2))[1, 1] return the original array (#403)
• Steprange indexing with Block not working (#419)