diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 43103fa086affa735e6ee6c63d138996d24be467..4c7c1e737956c556a648dae3f7f44cf9424eda85 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -29,6 +29,15 @@ contributing, and API reference.
 
 Omitted versions are plain bugfix releases with only minor changes and fixes.
 
+### v0.8.0
+- new underlying datamodel that allows to maintain multiple domains
+- mulitple domains supported the GUI
+- new metainfo implementation
+- new archive based on new metainfo
+- client library that serves archive data as objects (with tab completion) not dictionaries
+- properties and user tab in the search GUI
+- improved performance on most parsers
+
 ### v0.7.9
 - Everything to run a simple NOMAD OASIS based on the central user-management
 - minor bugfixes
diff --git a/gui/package.json b/gui/package.json
index 35147d696ca435475cbbd240f27ef2590f62ef9e..00d357e37ad2ea2cd72d4e9163c1d13683a4c53f 100644
--- a/gui/package.json
+++ b/gui/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "nomad-fair-gui",
-  "version": "0.7.10",
+  "version": "0.8.0",
   "commit": "nomad-gui-commit-placeholder",
   "private": true,
   "dependencies": {
diff --git a/nomad/config.py b/nomad/config.py
index c945732beb89ad963e79e7c9b206af7edf08fcd5..c4545a7c094e0eee171501bfc079cf32b46822dc 100644
--- a/nomad/config.py
+++ b/nomad/config.py
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ datacite = NomadConfig(
     password='*'
 )
 
-version = '0.7.10'
+version = '0.8.0'
 commit = gitinfo.commit
 release = 'devel'
 default_domain = 'dft'
diff --git a/ops/helm/nomad/Chart.yaml b/ops/helm/nomad/Chart.yaml
index 7f97fbca4ae9ede6b9d7c0c218de10e4bffe2dc7..ae5c367983977b455a0f4f4ffa06a50be7d9c7f9 100644
--- a/ops/helm/nomad/Chart.yaml
+++ b/ops/helm/nomad/Chart.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 apiVersion: v1
-appVersion: "0.7.10"
+appVersion: "0.8.0"
 description: A Helm chart for Kubernetes that only runs nomad services and uses externally hosted databases.
 name: nomad
-version: 0.7.10
+version: 0.8.0
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 67d67e4809d316938c9d44a07bbddf6a7fb09dbe..6b0907a4226ee538019ab31c75b63db7aad615a5 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ reqs = [str(ir.req) for ir in install_reqs if 'sphinxcontrib.httpdomain' not in
 
 setup(
     name='nomad',
-    version='0.7.10',
+    version='0.8.0',
     description='The nomad@FAIRDI infrastructure python package',
     py_modules=['nomad'],
     install_requires=reqs,