diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 707b718..4d7e32c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+## version 1.0.8 2020-04-02
+
+- imporve general retry/download functions
+- imporve WDI data loader
+
 ## version 1.0.7 2020-01-31
 
 - improve logging for datapackage generation (#120)
diff --git a/ddf_utils/__init__.py b/ddf_utils/__init__.py
index 426fc20..90cab7e 100644
--- a/ddf_utils/__init__.py
+++ b/ddf_utils/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
-__version__ = '1.0.8dev0'
+__version__ = '1.0.8'
 
 from . import (str, cli, i18n, io, patch, qa, transformer, factory)
 from ddf_utils.model.package import DataPackage
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index faeaf19..11105d4 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 from setuptools import find_packages, setup
 
-version = "1.0.8dev0"
+version = "1.0.8"
 
 if sys.argv[-1] == 'tag':
     os.system("git tag -a %s -m 'version %s'" % (version, version))