diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 1a487c17..b49424c9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
-Development version (next release)
+Version 0.8.0
 - Added support for half-precision floating-point (fp16) in the library
 - Made it possible to compile the performance tests (clients) separately from the correctness tests
 - Made a reference BLAS and head-to-head performance comparison optional in the clients
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index ad396ddd..6deee35d 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ set(CMAKE_USER_MAKE_RULES_OVERRIDE_CXX ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/cxx_fla
 # CMake project details
 project("clblast" C CXX)
 set(clblast_VERSION_MAJOR 0)
-set(clblast_VERSION_MINOR 7)
-set(clblast_VERSION_PATCH 1)
+set(clblast_VERSION_MINOR 8)
+set(clblast_VERSION_PATCH 0)
 
 # Options and their default values
 option(SAMPLES "Enable compilation of the examples" OFF)