diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b12f1d4d7..e323fe818 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-## 0.8.0 (unreleased)
+## 0.8.0 (June 23, 2015)
 
 BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITIES:
 
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ IMPROVEMENTS:
   * builder/amazon: Now applies tags to EBS snapshots [GH-2212]
   * builder/amazon: Clean up orphaned volumes from Source AMIs [GH-1783]
   * builder/amazon: Support custom keypairs [GH-1837]
-  * builder/amazon-chroot: Can now resize the root volume of the resulting 
+  * builder/amazon-chroot: Can now resize the root volume of the resulting
       AMI with the `root_volume_size` option [GH-2289]
   * builder/amazon-chroot: Add `mount_options` configuration option for providing
       options to the `mount` command [GH-2296]
diff --git a/version.go b/version.go
index dbfc8da12..cfe8f5e6b 100644
--- a/version.go
+++ b/version.go
@@ -9,4 +9,4 @@ const Version = "0.8.0"
 // A pre-release marker for the version. If this is "" (empty string)
 // then it means that it is a final release. Otherwise, this is a pre-release
 // such as "dev" (in development), "beta", "rc1", etc.
-const VersionPrerelease = "dev"
+const VersionPrerelease = ""