diff --git a/MODULE.bazel b/MODULE.bazel
index d0a18aa..55ba2b8 100644
--- a/MODULE.bazel
+++ b/MODULE.bazel
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 # TODO(fchern): automate version string alignment with setup.py
-VERSION = "0.8.0a1"
+VERSION = "0.8.0"
 
 module(
     name = "array_record",
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 435c165..475b3c9 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ def has_ext_modules(self):
 
 setup(
     name='array_record',
-    version='0.8.0a1',
+    version='0.8.0',
     description='A file format that achieves a new frontier of IO efficiency',
     author='ArrayRecord team',
     author_email='no-reply@google.com',