diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 815edc6..e4a2ef8 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,28 @@
 This file lists notable changes in each release. For the full history of all
 changes, see ChangeLog.
 
+2018-06-12: v0.8.0 release
+- Port to meson as the build system
+- Port documentation to gtk-doc
+
+* Drivers:
+  - Add Elan driver
+  - Increase threshold to detect encryption on URU4000 devices
+  - Remove already replaced UPEKE2 driver
+  - Fix possible crash caused by vfs5011 when no lines were captured
+
+* Library:
+  - Fix a number of memory and file descriptor leaks and warnings
+  - Make NSS (and URU4000) driver optional
+  - Fix assembling of frames for non-reverse and non reverse stripes
+  - Split internal private header to clarify drivers API
+  - Simplify logging system, now all the builds can be used to output
+    debug information
+  - Mark fp_dscv_print functions as deprecated
+
+* Udev rules:
+  - Add some unsupported devices to the whitelist
+
 2017-05-14: v0.7.0 release
 * Drivers:
   - Add VFS0050 driver
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index ca705dd..a5d2a94 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 project('libfprint', [ 'c', 'cpp' ],
-        version: '0.7.0',
+        version: '0.8.0',
         license: 'LGPLv2.1+',
         default_options: [
           'buildtype=debugoptimized',