diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 45a0c9b..2b6e741 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,11 @@
-# v0.7 - July 2018
+# v0.8 - 21 January 2019
+
+* Improvements to display for restart backoff
+* Fix a race condition affecting daemon restart (Richard Musiol)
+* Dependency updates and build improvements
+
+
+# v0.7 - 26 July 2018
 
 * Modd now has a built-in shell interpreter, which is used to execute commands
   by default. This means modd.conf files should now be fully portable.
diff --git a/modd.go b/modd.go
index 9d553d3..130d51e 100644
--- a/modd.go
+++ b/modd.go
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ import (
 )
 
 // Version is the modd release version
-const Version = "0.7"
+const Version = "0.8"
 
 const lullTime = time.Millisecond * 100