diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index d9e3515b..47186b02 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -2,6 +2,15 @@
 CHANGELOG
 =========
 
+2.8.0
+==========
+* improvement: feat(sqla-core): Add support for rendering Database Specific queries. `PR291 <https://github.com/aws/aws-xray-sdk-python/pull/291>`_.
+* bugfix: Fixing broken instrumentation for sqlalchemy >= 1.4.0. `PR289 <https://github.com/aws/aws-xray-sdk-python/pull/289>`_.
+* feature: no op trace id generation. `PR293 <https://github.com/aws/aws-xray-sdk-python/pull/293>`_.
+* bugfix: Handle exception when sending entity to Daemon. `PR292 <https://github.com/aws/aws-xray-sdk-python/pull/292>`_.
+* bugfix: Fixed serialization issue when cause is a string. `PR284 <https://github.com/aws/aws-xray-sdk-python/pull/284>`_.
+* improvement: Publish metric on distribution availability. `PR279 <https://github.com/aws/aws-xray-sdk-python/pull/279>`_.
+
 2.7.0
 ==========
 * improvement: Only run integration tests on master. `PR277 <https://github.com/aws/aws-xray-sdk-python/pull/277>`_.
diff --git a/aws_xray_sdk/version.py b/aws_xray_sdk/version.py
index 9ad573dc..223eb18b 100644
--- a/aws_xray_sdk/version.py
+++ b/aws_xray_sdk/version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-VERSION = '2.7.0'
+VERSION = '2.8.0'
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 121b1b8d..3301c6fd 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -62,9 +62,9 @@
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = u'2.7.0'
+version = u'2.8.0'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = u'2.7.0'
+release = u'2.8.0'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.