diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
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--- a/CHANGELOG.md
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Master (will become release 2.8)
+# 2.8 Release
 
 - Introduce class `LocalDensity` for material-specific implementations
 - Introduce class `LocalIntegralEnergy` to work with the densities
diff --git a/dune.module b/dune.module
index 67dc01879509955ee9ec6d6cca06837b11dd953e..327da7442ea16119680924d8df06702f6e2fb57c 100644
--- a/dune.module
+++ b/dune.module
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 #Name of the module
 Module:dune-elasticity
-Version: 2.8-git
+Version: 2.8
 Maintainer: oliver.sander@tu-dresden.de, patrick.jaap@tu-dresden.de
 #depending on
 Depends:dune-common dune-grid dune-istl dune-solvers dune-fufem dune-geometry dune-functions