chore: add changelog entry and bump version to 0.22.1

KRRT7 · KRRT7 · commit e3d27d0504de · 2026-03-27T13:41:56.000-05:00
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+## 0.22.8
+
+### Enhancements
+- **Reduce PaddleOCR memory usage**: Set `rec_batch_num=1` when creating PaddleOCR instances to reduce Paddle inference engine arena allocation from 4x500 MiB to 1x500 MiB during text recognition
+
 ## 0.22.7
 
 ### Fixes
diff --git a/unstructured/__version__.py b/unstructured/__version__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "0.22.7"  # pragma: no cover
+__version__ = "0.22.8"  # pragma: no cover
