diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 8eb4298a81..225236bab2 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Type: Package
 Package: dplyr
 Title: A Grammar of Data Manipulation
-Version: 1.0.7.9000
+Version: 1.0.8
 Authors@R: 
     c(person(given = "Hadley",
              family = "Wickham",
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# dplyr (development version)
+# dplyr 1.0.8
 
 * Better display of error messages thanks to rlang 1.0.0.