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 # Lotus changelog
 
+# 0.8.0 / 2020-09-26
+
+This consensus-breaking release of Lotus introduces an upgrade to the network. The changes that break consensus are:
+
+- Upgrading to specs-actors v0.9.11, which reduces WindowPoSt faults per [FIP 0002](https://github.com/filecoin-project/FIPs/blob/master/FIPS/fip-0002.md) to reduce cost for honest miners with occasional faults (see https://github.com/filecoin-project/specs-actors/pull/1181)
+- Revisions to some cryptoeconomics and network params
+
+This release also updates go-fil-markets to fix an incompatibility issue between v0.7.2 and earlier versions.
+
+## Changes 
+
+#### Dependencies
+
+- Update spec actors to 0.9.11 (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4039)
+- Update markets to 0.6.3 (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4013)
+
+#### Core Lotus
+
+- Network upgrade (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4039)
+- Fix AddSupportedProofTypes (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4033)
+- Return an error when we fail to find a sector when checking sector expiration (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4026)
+- Batch blockstore copies after block validation (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3980)
+- Remove a misleading miner actor abstraction (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3977)
+- Fix out-of-bounds when loading all sector infos (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3976)
+- Fix break condition in the miner (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3953)
+
+#### UX
+
+- Correct helptext around miners setting ask (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/4009)
+- Make sync wait nicer (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3991)
+
+#### Tooling and validation
+
+- Small adjustments following network upgradability changes (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3996)
+- Add some more big pictures stats to stateroot stat (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3995)
+- Add some actors policy setters for testing (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/3975)
+
+## Contributors
+
+The following contributors had 5 or more commits go into this release.
+We are grateful for every contribution!
+
+| Contributor        | Commits | Lines ±       |
+|--------------------|---------|---------------|
+| arajasek           | 66       | +3140/-1261  |
+| Stebalien          | 64       | +3797/-3434  |
+| magik6k            | 48       | +1892/-976   |
+| raulk              | 40       | +2412/-1549  |
+| vyzo               | 22       | +287/-196    |
+| alanshaw           | 15       | +761/-146    |
+| whyrusleeping      | 15       | +736/-52     |
+| hannahhoward       | 14       | +1237/837-   | 
+| anton              | 6        | +32/-8       |
+| travisperson       | 5        | +502/-6      |
+| Frank              | 5        | +78/-39      |
+| Jennifer           | 5        | +148/-41     |
+
 # 0.7.2 / 2020-09-23
 
 This optional release of Lotus introduces a major refactor around how a Lotus node interacts with code from the specs-actors repo. We now use interfaces to read the state of actors, which is required to be able to reason about different versions of actors code at the same time.
diff --git a/build/version.go b/build/version.go
index cfc8c3ab9..77b98f008 100644
--- a/build/version.go
+++ b/build/version.go
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ func buildType() string {
 }
 
 // BuildVersion is the local build version, set by build system
-const BuildVersion = "0.7.2"
+const BuildVersion = "0.8.0"
 
 func UserVersion() string {
 	return BuildVersion + buildType() + CurrentCommit