From 6a949fe1995bd322bbeb83bf2a16feb70a8dac73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Giovanni Bussi <giovanni.bussi@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2021 19:24:33 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Release v2.8b

---
 VERSION | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 45e4d00a14..51a6a571c4 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@
 # (this is same as gromacs)
 # Notice that "plumed info --version" will return only 2.X
 # and "plumed info --long-version" will return the full string
-2.8.0-dev
+2.8b