diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 1947f84b1b..a672c891c1 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ Changelog
 
 Here you can find the recent changes to tmuxp.
 
-dev
----
+0.1-rc8
+-------
 
 - [internal] ``unicode_literals``
 - [internal] Move py2/py3 compliancy code to ``_compat``.
diff --git a/tmuxp/__init__.py b/tmuxp/__init__.py
index f344e3937a..ec1b8a73a9 100644
--- a/tmuxp/__init__.py
+++ b/tmuxp/__init__.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function, \
     with_statement, unicode_literals
 
-__version__ = '0.1.0rc7'
+__version__ = '0.1.0rc8'
 
 from .session import Session
 from .server import Server