diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 57f51c8c7..487e72906 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -16,7 +16,9 @@ in order to get warned about deprecated features used in your code.
 
 This can also be enabled programmatically with `warnings.simplefilter('default', DeprecationWarning)`.
 
-## [2.8.0] - Not released yet
+## [2.8.1] - Not released yet
+
+## [2.8.0] - 2024-10-04
 ### Added
 * support for escape character for markers in markdown text [issue #1215](https://github.com/py-pdf/fpdf2/issues/1215)
 * Wrapping words on spaces now considers all common space symbols in addition to regular spaces (' '), addressing issues with word-wrapping for languages like Thai, as per [#1190](https://github.com/py-pdf/fpdf2/issues/1190) and [#1191](https://github.com/py-pdf/fpdf2/pull/1191).
diff --git a/contributors/contributors-map-small.png b/contributors/contributors-map-small.png
index eef1a64b9..50200d7fc 100644
Binary files a/contributors/contributors-map-small.png and b/contributors/contributors-map-small.png differ
diff --git a/docs/overrides/main.html b/docs/overrides/main.html
index 42dbbce62..cc744cae6 100644
--- a/docs/overrides/main.html
+++ b/docs/overrides/main.html
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 {% extends "base.html" %}
 
 {% block announce %}
-<!--center>
-  <a href="https://github.com/py-pdf/fpdf2/releases/tag/2.X.Y">
-    New release: 2.X.Y on 20YY/MM/DD
+<center>
+  <a href="https://github.com/py-pdf/fpdf2/releases/tag/2.8.0">
+    New release: 2.8.0 on 2024/10/04
   </a>
-</center-->
+</center>
 {% endblock %}
 
 {% block extrahead %}
diff --git a/fpdf/fpdf.py b/fpdf/fpdf.py
index 4785fae92..9b1cf1105 100644
--- a/fpdf/fpdf.py
+++ b/fpdf/fpdf.py
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ class Image:
 from .util import get_scale_factor, Padding
 
 # Public global variables:
-FPDF_VERSION = "2.7.9"
+FPDF_VERSION = "2.8.0"
 PAGE_FORMATS = {
     "a3": (841.89, 1190.55),
     "a4": (595.28, 841.89),