diff --git a/.zenodo.json b/.zenodo.json
index fd96736f3c1..e4996fc5334 100644
--- a/.zenodo.json
+++ b/.zenodo.json
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 {
     "description": "Mirror of the Sage https://sagemath.org/ source tree", 
     "license": "other-open", 
-    "title": "sagemath/sage: 9.5.beta7", 
-    "version": "9.5.beta7", 
+    "title": "sagemath/sage: 9.5.beta8", 
+    "version": "9.5.beta8", 
     "upload_type": "software", 
-    "publication_date": "2021-11-18", 
+    "publication_date": "2021-12-12", 
     "creators": [
         {
             "affiliation": "SageMath.org", 
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
     "related_identifiers": [
         {
             "scheme": "url", 
-            "identifier": "https://github.com/sagemath/sage/tree/9.5.beta7", 
+            "identifier": "https://github.com/sagemath/sage/tree/9.5.beta8", 
             "relation": "isSupplementTo"
         }, 
         {
diff --git a/VERSION.txt b/VERSION.txt
index be62107d97e..2cbf040582f 100644
--- a/VERSION.txt
+++ b/VERSION.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SageMath version 9.5.beta7, Release Date: 2021-11-18
+SageMath version 9.5.beta8, Release Date: 2021-12-12
diff --git a/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini b/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
index 9cb66261fb9..446fad340c4 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
+++ b/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 tarball=configure-VERSION.tar.gz
-sha1=fa7a6a287c18e8c4129ef5e7f098e716bd30f73f
-md5=a342ed4d433163a2dbb43f2202740575
-cksum=2901964880
+sha1=07d98dfc41a546e8fbcedc500e0c29927061d2b2
+md5=ccdc4b7a6c1ec9de8a198a5b69bf7cba
+cksum=2208364100
diff --git a/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt b/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
index a302aa02f35..d1714c48f48 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
+++ b/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1ed7c6033bc77e3dffbd60b0777d3b939a4226b4
+36135459d57177c9480eda0f779c0fb8650727be
diff --git a/build/pkgs/sagelib/package-version.txt b/build/pkgs/sagelib/package-version.txt
index 8f24c817c21..c373c991e0d 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/sagelib/package-version.txt
+++ b/build/pkgs/sagelib/package-version.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-9.5.beta7
+9.5.beta8
diff --git a/src/VERSION.txt b/src/VERSION.txt
index 8f24c817c21..c373c991e0d 100644
--- a/src/VERSION.txt
+++ b/src/VERSION.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-9.5.beta7
+9.5.beta8
diff --git a/src/bin/sage-version.sh b/src/bin/sage-version.sh
index 5d9a4f586f3..028873c9526 100644
--- a/src/bin/sage-version.sh
+++ b/src/bin/sage-version.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Sage version information for shell scripts
 # This file is auto-generated by the sage-update-version script, do not edit!
-SAGE_VERSION='9.5.beta7'
-SAGE_RELEASE_DATE='2021-11-18'
-SAGE_VERSION_BANNER='SageMath version 9.5.beta7, Release Date: 2021-11-18'
+SAGE_VERSION='9.5.beta8'
+SAGE_RELEASE_DATE='2021-12-12'
+SAGE_VERSION_BANNER='SageMath version 9.5.beta8, Release Date: 2021-12-12'
diff --git a/src/sage/version.py b/src/sage/version.py
index 60df61416a0..1e5a25ab935 100644
--- a/src/sage/version.py
+++ b/src/sage/version.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Sage version information for Python scripts
 # This file is auto-generated by the sage-update-version script, do not edit!
-version = '9.5.beta7'
-date = '2021-11-18'
-banner = 'SageMath version 9.5.beta7, Release Date: 2021-11-18'
+version = '9.5.beta8'
+date = '2021-12-12'
+banner = 'SageMath version 9.5.beta8, Release Date: 2021-12-12'