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+## Version 3.8.0 Release Notes
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+Compatible with OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards version 3.8.0
+
+### Features
+
+* Implement DocRequest on notification config and alerting request classes to enable automatic resource-level access control ([#980](https://github.com/opensearch-project/common-utils/pull/980))
+
+### Infrastructure
+
+* Onboard new backport-pr reusable GitHub workflow ([#974](https://github.com/opensearch-project/common-utils/pull/974))
+* Update opensearch-build workflow references from SHA to @main ([#971](https://github.com/opensearch-project/common-utils/pull/971))
+
+### Maintenance
+
+* Version bump to 3.8.0 ([#969](https://github.com/opensearch-project/common-utils/pull/969))