diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 4f5ac54..ac109db 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -37,3 +37,4 @@
 /modulemd-2.5.0.tar.xz
 /modulemd-2.6.0.tar.xz
 /modulemd-2.7.0.tar.xz
+/modulemd-2.8.0.tar.xz
diff --git a/libmodulemd.spec b/libmodulemd.spec
index 9b7280f..5b5af88 100644
--- a/libmodulemd.spec
+++ b/libmodulemd.spec
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@
 %endif
 
 Name:           libmodulemd
-Version:        2.7.0
-Release:        2%{?dist}
+Version:        2.8.0
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        Module metadata manipulation library
 
 License:        MIT
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(gobject-introspection-1.0)
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(yaml-0.1)
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(gtk-doc)
 BuildRequires:  glib2-doc
+BuildRequires:  rpm-devel
+BuildRequires:  file-devel
 %if %{build_python2}
 BuildRequires:  python2-devel
 BuildRequires:  python-gobject-base
@@ -141,6 +143,21 @@ export MMD_SKIP_VALGRIND=1
 
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Sep 04 2019 Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@redhat.com> - 2.8.0-1
+- Update to 2.8.0
+- API Changes
+  * Add Modulemd.Module.get_translation() - Retrieve the translations
+    associated with a Modulemd.Module
+  * Add ModuleIndex.update_from_defaults_directory() - Import defaults from a
+    directory of yaml documents, such as fedora-module-defaults, optionally
+    providing a second path containing overrides.
+- Enhancements
+  * Modulemd.ModuleIndex.update_from_file() now supports reading files
+    compressed with gzip, bzip2 or xz. (Issue: #208)
+  * Documentation updates
+- Bugfixes
+  * Assorted minor issues discovered by static analysis tools.
+
 * Mon Aug 19 2019 Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@redhat.com> - 2.7.0-2
 - Rebuilt for Python 3.8
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index dd6665e..c2bc6a3 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (modulemd-2.7.0.tar.xz) = 5872a7ca70e046a95f779e54cd6d78d994c7227561349fd6ec909dc5cae16eb0ae4aa59707398427aeeeb28d9d86d5977e54580ef2af8e64114cf6455643fd5a
+SHA512 (modulemd-2.8.0.tar.xz) = 0eee1b57b122f1fe3860f42d380a8ce3b39801f69124537d9cb4464990981c32636d0c40f1879fcfc15550aa067190d2a406ee7fec85b00048dc44dbc62ab129