diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 64a3fecd122c9a791519086241ca5711d0909dc1..f0e3ae06ad2ca087c3845d209404ed7323ed31fc 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 ---
 # Install external dependencies
 
-dune:git  clang  C++17:
+dune:2.8  clang  C++17:
   image: registry.dune-project.org/docker/ci/dune:git-debian-10-clang-7-libcpp-17
   script: duneci-standard-test
 
-dune:git  gcc-8  C++17:
+dune:2.8  gcc-8  C++17:
   image: registry.dune-project.org/docker/ci/dune:git-debian-10-gcc-8-17
   script: duneci-standard-test
 
-dune:git  gcc-9  C++20:
+dune:2.8  gcc-9  C++20:
   image: registry.dune-project.org/docker/ci/dune:git-debian-11-gcc-9-20
   script: duneci-standard-test
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c766858dd10c55e8f05f55644c064e4bef54e103..3c6fef83c946ed0f1ac2fc5078edf03c56737a84 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Master (will become release 2.8)
+# 2.8 Release
 
 - The method `addToDiagonal` can now also be called if the matrix is a scalar number type.
   This is needed since nowadays scalar entries can end the nesting recursion of dune-istl
diff --git a/dune.module b/dune.module
index 1e8f1e8238aa76b65b35f2433020dbb847dc31fc..533586dc8f3289500af15ded2084d7a02f51083f 100644
--- a/dune.module
+++ b/dune.module
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 #Name of the module
 Module: dune-matrix-vector
-Version: 2.8-git
+Version: 2.8
 Maintainer: graeser@mi.fu-berlin.de
 #depending on
 Depends: dune-common dune-geometry dune-localfunctions dune-grid dune-istl