diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 979ed34b..f0b2bfa9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 # Release History
 
-## 2.7.x (Unreleased)
+## 2.8.x (Unreleased)
+
+## 2.8.0 (2023-07-14)
 
 - Add support for Cloud Fetch (#146, #151, #154)
 - SQLAlchemy has_table function now honours schema= argument and adds catalog= argument (#174)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 0c44d0de..8d89ba2d 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "databricks-sql-connector"
-version = "2.7.0"
+version = "2.8.0"
 description = "Databricks SQL Connector for Python"
 authors = ["Databricks <databricks-sql-connector-maintainers@databricks.com>"]
 license = "Apache-2.0"
diff --git a/src/databricks/sql/__init__.py b/src/databricks/sql/__init__.py
index b72d9421..f9a49281 100644
--- a/src/databricks/sql/__init__.py
+++ b/src/databricks/sql/__init__.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ def __repr__(self):
 DATE = DBAPITypeObject("date")
 ROWID = DBAPITypeObject()
 
-__version__ = "2.7.0"
+__version__ = "2.8.0"
 USER_AGENT_NAME = "PyDatabricksSqlConnector"
 
 # These two functions are pyhive legacy