diff --git a/version.py b/version.py
index 924d257a5..5e097b6e0 100755
--- a/version.py
+++ b/version.py
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 __authors__ = ["Jérôme Kieffer", "V. Valls"]
 __license__ = "MIT"
 __copyright__ = "European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France"
-__date__ = "31/05/2023"
+__date__ = "30/08/2023"
 __status__ = "production"
 __docformat__ = 'restructuredtext'
 __all__ = ["date", "version_info", "strictversion", "hexversion", "debianversion",
@@ -61,9 +61,9 @@
                        "final": 15}
 
 MAJOR = 2023
-MINOR = 6
+MINOR = 8
 MICRO = 0
-RELEV = "dev"  # <16
+RELEV = "final"  # <16
 SERIAL = 0  # <16
 
 date = __date__