diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 8c78fb9d..fb1fea17 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2018-02-25  Jay Berkenbilt  <ejb@ql.org>
+
+	* 8.0.0: release
+
 2018-02-17  Jay Berkenbilt  <ejb@ql.org>
 
 	* Fix QPDFObjectHandle::getUTF8Val() to properly handle strings
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 3b63b411..48f269b5 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 dnl This config.in requires autoconf 2.5 or greater.
 
 AC_PREREQ([2.68])
-AC_INIT([qpdf],[8.0.rc3])
+AC_INIT([qpdf],[8.0.0])
 
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
 AC_CONFIG_FILES([autoconf.mk])
diff --git a/libqpdf/QPDF.cc b/libqpdf/QPDF.cc
index f40d6eb4..5bea2f7a 100644
--- a/libqpdf/QPDF.cc
+++ b/libqpdf/QPDF.cc
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 #include <qpdf/QPDF_Null.hh>
 #include <qpdf/QPDF_Dictionary.hh>
 
-std::string QPDF::qpdf_version = "8.0.rc3";
+std::string QPDF::qpdf_version = "8.0.0";
 
 static char const* EMPTY_PDF =
     "%PDF-1.3\n"
diff --git a/manual/qpdf-manual.xml b/manual/qpdf-manual.xml
index 65558d61..f0be343e 100644
--- a/manual/qpdf-manual.xml
+++ b/manual/qpdf-manual.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 <!ENTITY mdash "&#x2014;">
 <!ENTITY ndash "&#x2013;">
 <!ENTITY nbsp "&#xA0;">
-<!ENTITY swversion "8.0.rc3">
+<!ENTITY swversion "8.0.0">
 <!ENTITY lastreleased "February 25, 2018">
 ]>
 <book>