diff --git a/docs/changelog.md b/docs/changelog.md
index 7b34feb9f..521960417 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.md
+++ b/docs/changelog.md
@@ -1,3 +1,26 @@
+## 0.8.0 (2024-07-09)
+
+### Feat
+
+- Prevent duplicate contacts/links in `Link1d2d` by replacing Link1d2d._process() with properties (#674)
+- Move jadelvappos to physics section. (#672)
+- Make research wave section optional again. (#671)
+- Fix remaining keywords (#670)
+- Add support for spaces polyline names (#652)
+- Add support for optional [sedtrails] research section. (#651)
+- Don't write keywords with None values (#663)
+- Add/move more mdu keywords (#654)
+- Raise error for unknown keywords (#632)
+- Added support for research keywords (#642)
+- Add support for python 3.12 (#640)
+- Use caching to prevent reading files multiple times (#641)
+- Add missing mdu keywords (#628)
+
+### Fix
+
+- Ensure mesh_2d_edge_x and mesh_2d_edge_y are written to nc file. (#645)
+- locationtype should not be written for CrossSections or ObservationCrossSections (#683)
+
 ## 0.7.0 (2024-03-11)
 
 ### Feat
diff --git a/hydrolib/core/__init__.py b/hydrolib/core/__init__.py
index 49e0fc1e0..777f190df 100644
--- a/hydrolib/core/__init__.py
+++ b/hydrolib/core/__init__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "0.7.0"
+__version__ = "0.8.0"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index b974303ef..8e859cf1c 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "hydrolib-core"
-version = "0.7.0"
+version = "0.8.0"
 description = "Python wrappers around D-HYDRO Suite."
 authors = ["Deltares"]
 license = "MIT"
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ xarray = ">=2023.0.0"
 
 [tool.commitizen]
 name = "cz_conventional_commits"
-version = "0.7.0"
+version = "0.8.0"
 tag_format = "$version"
 version_files = [
   "hydrolib/core/__init__.py",
diff --git a/tests/data/reference/dimr/test_serialize.xml b/tests/data/reference/dimr/test_serialize.xml
index 5cf50757c..1d06ef1bd 100644
--- a/tests/data/reference/dimr/test_serialize.xml
+++ b/tests/data/reference/dimr/test_serialize.xml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 <dimrConfig xmlns="http://schemas.deltares.nl/dimr" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://schemas.deltares.nl/dimr http://content.oss.deltares.nl/schemas/dimr-1.3.xsd">
   <documentation>
     <fileVersion>1.3</fileVersion>
-    <createdBy>hydrolib-core 0.7.0</createdBy>
+    <createdBy>hydrolib-core 0.8.0</createdBy>
     <creationDate>2020-03-17T10:02:49.4520672Z</creationDate>
   </documentation>
   <control>
diff --git a/tests/data/reference/model/test_dimr_model_save.xml b/tests/data/reference/model/test_dimr_model_save.xml
index d6fb898e5..fe4ef96e8 100644
--- a/tests/data/reference/model/test_dimr_model_save.xml
+++ b/tests/data/reference/model/test_dimr_model_save.xml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 <dimrConfig xmlns="http://schemas.deltares.nl/dimr" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://schemas.deltares.nl/dimr http://content.oss.deltares.nl/schemas/dimr-1.3.xsd">
   <documentation>
     <fileVersion>1.3</fileVersion>
-    <createdBy>hydrolib-core 0.7.0</createdBy>
+    <createdBy>hydrolib-core 0.8.0</createdBy>
     <creationDate>2021-07-29T12:45:00</creationDate>
   </documentation>
   <control>