diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 7dc91ca3..0aee749b 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,12 +1,15 @@
 # Changes
 
-### UNRELEASED
+### 2024-11-06 (2.8.0)
 
 * Emit a deprecation warning when `JSON.load` create custom types without the `create_additions` option being explictly enabled.
   * Prefer to use `JSON.unsafe_load(string)` or `JSON.load(string, create_additions: true)`.
 * Emit a deprecation warning when serializing valid UTF-8 strings encoded in `ASCII_8BIT` aka `BINARY`.
-* Bump required_ruby_version to 2.7.
-* More performance improvments to `JSON.dump` and `JSON.generate`.
+* Bump required Ruby version to 2.7.
+* Add support for optionally parsing trailing commas, via `allow_trailing_comma: true`, which in cunjunction with the
+  pre-existing support for comments, make it suitable to parse `jsonc` documents.
+* Many performance improvements to `JSON.parse` and `JSON.load`, up to `1.7x` faster on real world documents.
+* Some minor performance improvements to `JSON.dump` and `JSON.generate`.
 
 ### 2024-11-04 (2.7.6)
 
diff --git a/lib/json/version.rb b/lib/json/version.rb
index ee1312c7..363bdbea 100644
--- a/lib/json/version.rb
+++ b/lib/json/version.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # frozen_string_literal: true
 
 module JSON
-  VERSION = '2.8.0.alpha1'
+  VERSION = '2.8.0'
 end