diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c191702e..4107e6eb 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-ncmpcpp-0.8 (????-??-??)
+ncmpcpp-0.8 (2017-05-21)
 * Configuration variable 'execute_on_player_state_change' was added.
 * Support for controlling whether ncmpcpp should display multiple tags as-is or make an effort to hide duplicate values (show_duplicate_tags configuration variable, enabled by default).
 * Support for filtering of lists was brought back from the dead.
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index f238507b..16c4116d 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-AC_INIT([ncmpcpp], [0.8_dev])
+AC_INIT([ncmpcpp], [0.8])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([configure.ac])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS(config.h)
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([subdir-objects])