diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3e37ac8e..a658e399 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 # CHANGELOG
 
+# Version 8 / 2019-10-24
+
+- Remove vendored botocore requests patching since the package has been removed from the latest botocore
+- Update README for enhanced metrics instructions
+
 # Version: 7 / 2019-10-24
 
 - Increment `aws.lambda.enhanced.invocations` and `aws.lambda.enhanced.errors` metrics for each invocation if `DD_ENHANCED_METRICS` env var is set to true.
diff --git a/datadog_lambda/__init__.py b/datadog_lambda/__init__.py
index ac90d4f8..0edd20bc 100644
--- a/datadog_lambda/__init__.py
+++ b/datadog_lambda/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # The minor version corresponds to the Lambda layer version.
 # E.g.,, version 0.5.0 gets packaged into layer version 5.
-__version__ = '0.7.0'
+__version__ = '0.8.0'
 
 
 import os