diff --git a/docs/release-notes.md b/docs/release-notes.md
index eb08a97bd..014f852b9 100644
--- a/docs/release-notes.md
+++ b/docs/release-notes.md
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-## Next
+## Next release
+
+## 0.8.0
 
 * Make development scripts executable. PR <a href="htthttps://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/76" target="_blank">#76</a> by <a href="https://github.com/euri10" target="_blank">@euri10</a>.
 
diff --git a/fastapi/__init__.py b/fastapi/__init__.py
index 10c0df830..15ebe9731 100644
--- a/fastapi/__init__.py
+++ b/fastapi/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 """FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production"""
 
-__version__ = "0.7.1"
+__version__ = "0.8.0"
 
 from .applications import FastAPI
 from .datastructures import UploadFile