diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 7e75557..0650e50 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+pygeometa (0.8.0) bionic; urgency=medium
+  * update multilingual support
+  * add MCF schema support
+
+ -- Tom Kralidis <tomkralidis@gmail.com>  Sat, 11 Sep 2021 11:52:18 +0000
+
 pygeometa (0.7.0) bionic; urgency=medium
 
   * support keyword vocabulary
diff --git a/pygeometa/__init__.py b/pygeometa/__init__.py
index 1c418fd..494e40d 100644
--- a/pygeometa/__init__.py
+++ b/pygeometa/__init__.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 
 from pygeometa.core import generate, info, schemas, validate
 
-__version__ = '0.8.dev0'
+__version__ = '0.8.0'
 
 
 @click.group()