diff --git a/gpt4all-bindings/python/CHANGELOG.md b/gpt4all-bindings/python/CHANGELOG.md
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+# Changelog
+
+All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
+
+The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/).
+
+## [2.8.0] - 2024-08-05
+
+### Added
+- Support GPT-NeoX, Gemma 2, OpenELM, ChatGLM, and Jais architectures (all with Vulkan support) ([#2694](https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/pull/2694))
+- Enable Vulkan support for StarCoder2, XVERSE, Command R, and OLMo ([#2694](https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/pull/2694))
+- Support DeepSeek-V2 architecture (no Vulkan support) ([#2702](https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/pull/2702))
+- Add Llama 3.1 8B Instruct to models3.json (by [@3Simplex](https://github.com/3Simplex) in [#2731](https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/pull/2731) and [#2732](https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/pull/2732))
+- Support Llama 3.1 RoPE scaling ([#2758](https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/pull/2758))
+- Add Qwen2-1.5B-Instruct to models3.json (by [@ThiloteE](https://github.com/ThiloteE) in [#2759](https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/pull/2759))
+- Detect use of a Python interpreter under Rosetta for a clearer error message ([#2793](https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/pull/2793))
+
+### Changed
+- Update llama.cpp to commit 87e397d00 from July 19th ([#2694](https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/pull/2694))
+
+### Removed
+- Remove unused internal llmodel\_has\_gpu\_device ([#2409](https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/pull/2409))
+- Remove support for GPT-J models ([#2676](https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/pull/2676), [#2693](https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/pull/2693))
+
+### Fixed
+- Fix debug mode crash on Windows and undefined behavior in LLamaModel::embedInternal ([#2467](https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/pull/2467))
+- Fix CUDA PTX errors with some GPT4All builds ([#2421](https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/pull/2421))
+- Fix mishandling of inputs greater than n\_ctx tokens after [#1970](https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/pull/1970) ([#2498](https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/pull/2498))
+- Fix crash when Kompute falls back to CPU ([#2640](https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/pull/2640))
+- Fix several Kompute resource management issues ([#2694](https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/pull/2694))
+- Fix crash/hang when some models stop generating, by showing special tokens ([#2701](https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/pull/2701))
+- Fix several backend issues ([#2778](https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/pull/2778))
+  - Restore leading space removal logic that was incorrectly removed in [#2694](https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/pull/2694)
+  - CUDA: Cherry-pick llama.cpp DMMV cols requirement fix that caused a crash with long conversations since [#2694](https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/pull/2694)
+
+[2.8.0]: https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/compare/python-v2.7.0...python-v2.8.0
diff --git a/gpt4all-bindings/python/setup.py b/gpt4all-bindings/python/setup.py
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+++ b/gpt4all-bindings/python/setup.py
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ def get_long_description():
 
 setup(
     name=package_name,
-    version="2.8.0.dev0",
+    version="2.8.0",
     description="Python bindings for GPT4All",
     long_description=get_long_description(),
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",