From d45e9e4abfce2363decdc4616734cc61cc04dfda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Giovanni Bussi <giovanni.bussi@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 23:28:39 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Release v2.8.0

---
 CHANGES/v2.8.md | 2 +-
 VERSION         | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGES/v2.8.md b/CHANGES/v2.8.md
index 079bc92914..1f1e158dc7 100644
--- a/CHANGES/v2.8.md
+++ b/CHANGES/v2.8.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 @page CHANGES-2-8 Version 2.8
   
-## Version 2.8 (under development)
+## Version 2.8 (Feb 22, 2022)
 
 This page contains changes that will end up in 2.8
 
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 51a6a571c4..a52a78ad1c 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
-2.8b
+2.8.0