diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 642815217cb..4de3f4ba397 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+## [v2.8.0](https://github.com/allenai/allennlp/releases/tag/v2.8.0) - 2021-11-01
+
 ### Added
 
 - Added support to push models directly to the [Hugging Face Hub](https://huggingface.co/) with the command `allennlp push-to-hf`.
diff --git a/CITATION.cff b/CITATION.cff
index b9b838bbda3..8ada719c6ee 100644
--- a/CITATION.cff
+++ b/CITATION.cff
@@ -42,6 +42,6 @@ license: "Apache-2.0"
 message: "If you use this software, please cite it using this metadata."
 repository-code: "https://github.com/allenai/allennlp"
 title: "AllenNLP: A Deep Semantic Natural Language Processing Platform"
-version: "2.7.0"
+version: "2.8.0"
 doi: "10.18653/v1/W18-2501"
 ...
diff --git a/allennlp/version.py b/allennlp/version.py
index 949d8f06968..aa4b7f7a34a 100644
--- a/allennlp/version.py
+++ b/allennlp/version.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import os
 
 _MAJOR = "2"
-_MINOR = "7"
+_MINOR = "8"
 # On main and in a nightly release the patch should be one ahead of the last
 # released build.
 _PATCH = "0"