diff --git a/AUTHORS.txt b/AUTHORS.txt
index 0a3cdf580..78f573a9a 100644
--- a/AUTHORS.txt
+++ b/AUTHORS.txt
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ Adrien Devresse
 Alexandru Săvulescu
 Ali Can Demiralp
 Angelos Plastropoulos
+@antonysigma
 Chris Byrohl
 Chris De Grendele
 @contre
@@ -12,6 +13,8 @@ Fernando L. Pereira
 @guoxy
 Haoran Ni
 Henry Schreiner
+@hn-sl
+Hunter Belanger
 @JaWSnl
 Jia Li
 John W. Peterson
@@ -49,6 +52,7 @@ Tino Wagner
 Tobias Klauser
 Tom de Geus
 Tom Vander Aa
+Torsten Reuschel
 Tristan Carel
 Wolf Vollprecht
 Y. Yang
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index eeeb628c9..9a8cd8613 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,14 +1,34 @@
 # Changes
-## Version 2.8.0 - 2023-MM-DD
+## Version 2.8.0 - 2023-11-02
+### Important Change
+    - `Eigen::Matrix` is (by default) stored with column-major index ordering. Under
+      certain conditions `Eigen::Matrix` was written and read as row-major.
+      Due to code duplication H5Easy isn't affected by this bug. Starting
+      `2.8.0` HighFive will now throw an exception whenever prior versions would
+      have read with incorrect assumptions about the index ordering. (#731)
+
 ### New Features
+    - Improve reading and writing `std::string` as fixed and variable length HDF5 strings (#744).
     - Implement creation of hard links (#765). Thanks to @Quark-X10.
     - Get the size of file and amound of tracked unused space (#764). Thanks to @Quark-X10.
+    - `class DataType` has a new ctor to open a commited `DataType` (#796). Thanks to @Quark-X10.
+    - Allow user-specified `mem_space` for hyperslabs. (#740)
+    - New properties: `AttributePhaseChange`. (#785)
+    - New options to link against HDF5 statically (#823). Thanks @HunterBelanger.
+    - Add support for `std::complex<integral_type>` valid with C++23 (#828). Thanks @unbtorsten.
+    - Add a top-level header to include all compononents (#818).
 
 ### Improvements
+    - Add concept checks to `Property` if C++20 for better errors (#811). Thanks @antonysigma.
     - Add parallel HDF5 test in CI (#760).
     - Simplify github workflow (#761).
     - Move inspectors in their own file to be able to better implements strings (#759).
 
+### Bug Fix
+    - Fix vector constructor ambiguity in H5DataType.hpp (#775). Thanks to @hn-sl.
+    - `getElementCount()` fixed. (#787)
+    - Remove leak when calling dtor of `CompoundType`. (#798)
+
 ## Version 2.7.1 - 2023-04-04
 ### Bug Fix
     - Revert removing `#include "H5FileDriver.hpp"` from `H5File.hpp` (#711).
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 867981020..af274d9e2 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ else()
   cmake_policy(VERSION 3.13)
 endif()
 
-project(HighFive VERSION 2.7.1)
+project(HighFive VERSION 2.8.0)
 
 configure_file(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/include/highfive/H5Version.hpp.in
                ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/include/highfive/H5Version.hpp)
diff --git a/doc/developer_guide.md b/doc/developer_guide.md
index 44ee0fd00..3017289b5 100644
--- a/doc/developer_guide.md
+++ b/doc/developer_guide.md
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ your changes.)
 Before releasing a new version perform the following:
 
 * Update `CHANGELOG.md` and `AUTHORS.txt` as required.
+* Update `CMakeLists.txt` and `include/highfive/H5Version.hpp`.
 * Follow semantic versioning when deciding the next version number.
 * Check that
   [HighFive-testing](https://github.com/BlueBrain/HighFive-testing/actions) ran
diff --git a/doc/installation.md b/doc/installation.md
index 808e34532..41521bba5 100644
--- a/doc/installation.md
+++ b/doc/installation.md
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ install. The detailed instructions would be
 
     git clone --recursive https://github.com/BlueBrain/HighFive.git
     cd HighFive
-    git checkout v2.7.1
+    git checkout v2.8.0
 
 If it complains that Catch is missing, you forgot the `--recursive`. To fix
 this you type
diff --git a/include/highfive/H5Version.hpp b/include/highfive/H5Version.hpp
index 49b0e8016..dc238432c 100644
--- a/include/highfive/H5Version.hpp
+++ b/include/highfive/H5Version.hpp
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@
 #pragma once
 
 #define HIGHFIVE_VERSION_MAJOR 2
-#define HIGHFIVE_VERSION_MINOR 7
-#define HIGHFIVE_VERSION_PATCH 1
+#define HIGHFIVE_VERSION_MINOR 8
+#define HIGHFIVE_VERSION_PATCH 0
 
 /** \brief Concatenated representation of the HighFive version.
  *
@@ -24,10 +24,10 @@
  *  std::cout << STRINGIFY_VALUE(HIGHFIVE_VERSION) << "\n";
  *  \endcode
  */
-#define HIGHFIVE_VERSION 2.7.1
+#define HIGHFIVE_VERSION 2.8.0
 
 /** \brief String representation of the HighFive version.
  *
  *  \warning This macro only exists from 2.7.1 onwards.
  */
-#define HIGHFIVE_VERSION_STRING "2.7.1"
+#define HIGHFIVE_VERSION_STRING "2.8.0"