diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
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--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "diff",
-  "version": "7.0.0",
+  "version": "8.0.0",
   "description": "A JavaScript text diff implementation.",
   "keywords": [
     "diff",
diff --git a/release-notes.md b/release-notes.md
index 6856aae1..49769dee 100644
--- a/release-notes.md
+++ b/release-notes.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Release Notes
 
-## 8.0.0 (pending release)
+## 8.0.0
 
 - [#580](https://github.com/kpdecker/jsdiff/pull/580) **Multiple tweaks to `diffSentences`**:
   * tokenization no longer takes quadratic time on pathological inputs (reported as a ReDOS vulnerability by Snyk); is now linear instead