diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 5cd7f4944..7675bc8d1 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: pkgdown
 Title: Make Static HTML Documentation for a Package
-Version: 2.0.7.9000
+Version: 2.0.8
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Hadley", "Wickham", , "hadley@posit.co", role = c("aut", "cre"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-4757-117X")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 801ef5cd9..67deac26f 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# pkgdown (development version)
+# pkgdown 2.0.8
 
 * pkgdown is now compatible with (and requires) bslib >= 0.5.1 
   (@gadenbuie, #2395), including a fix to BS5 navbar template to get