diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 6374cd650..31a5cd1be 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -45,6 +45,11 @@ Babel is written and maintained by the Babel team and various contributors:
 - Leonardo Pistone
 - Jun Omae
 - Hyunjun Kim
+- sebleblanc
+- He Chen
+- Steve (Gadget) Barnes
+- Romuald Brunet
+- Mario Frasca
 - BT-sschmid
 - Alberto Mardegan
 - mondeja
diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index ec265c557..4441f68e7 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,6 +1,27 @@
 Babel Changelog
 ===============
 
+Version 2.8.0
+-------------
+
+Improvements
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* CLDR: Upgrade to CLDR 36.0 - Aarni Koskela (#679)
+* Messages: Don't even open files with the "ignore" extraction method - @sebleblanc (#678)
+
+Bugfixes
+~~~~~~~~
+
+* Numbers: Fix formatting very small decimals when quantization is disabled - Lev Lybin, @miluChen (#662)
+* Messages: Attempt to sort all messages – Mario Frasca (#651, #606)
+
+Docs
+~~~~
+
+* Add years to changelog - Romuald Brunet
+* Note that installation requires pytz - Steve (Gadget) Barnes
+
 Version 2.7.0
 -------------
 
diff --git a/babel/__init__.py b/babel/__init__.py
index 1132e6f37..c10a8bd1f 100644
--- a/babel/__init__.py
+++ b/babel/__init__.py
@@ -21,4 +21,4 @@
     negotiate_locale, parse_locale, get_locale_identifier
 
 
-__version__ = '2.7.0'
+__version__ = '2.8.0'
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 6eed08fe6..83c5bf206 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -51,9 +51,9 @@
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = '2.7'
+version = '2.8'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '2.7.0'
+release = '2.8.0'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.