diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 414974a7ff6801be38466549179984d3836eb224..8794df5690346cbf03abac9a1af2543930160990 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -2,6 +2,13 @@
 
 Formerly known as 'gitlab-git-http-server'.
 
+v 8.0.0
+
+- Remove local git archive support !304
+- Remove local git diff handling !345
+- Remove local git format-patch handling !346
+- Remove RepoPath from the API response
+
 v 7.6.0
 
 - Rename correlation-id structured logging field to correlation_id !343
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 93c8ddab9fef3d606dcbc0d562545592cdc40dce..ae9a76b9249ada6741bd54810f9e944f1c7aaf74 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-7.6.0
+8.0.0