diff --git a/NEWS.asciidoc b/NEWS.asciidoc
index 0e39f757..bbebba9f 100644
--- a/NEWS.asciidoc
+++ b/NEWS.asciidoc
@@ -1,6 +1,14 @@
 [[news]]
 === News
 
+* _TODO, 2020:_ There is a new stable release
+https://sourceforge.net/projects/pysolfc/files/PySolFC/PySolFC-2.8.0/[PySolFC
+v2.8.0]. New in this release:
+** Better kivy/Android support
+** Using ttk and configobj as shipped in the python dist (instead of forked versions)
+** Requiring https://pypi.org/project/attrs/[attrs] and https://pypi.org/project/pysol-cards/[pysol-cards] from PyPI
+** Added tests, bug fixes and refactorings.
+** Add the +-g+ and +--deal+ command line options.
 * _25 April, 2019:_ There is a new stable release
 https://sourceforge.net/projects/pysolfc/files/PySolFC/PySolFC-2.6.4/[PySolFC
 v2.6.4]. New in this release:
diff --git a/pysollib/settings.py b/pysollib/settings.py
index e026dc74..3c59872c 100644
--- a/pysollib/settings.py
+++ b/pysollib/settings.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ PACKAGE = 'PySolFC'
 TITLE = 'PySol'
 PACKAGE_URL = 'http://pysolfc.sourceforge.net/'
 
-VERSION_TUPLE = (2, 6, 4)
+VERSION_TUPLE = (2, 8, 0)
 VERSION = '.'.join(map(str, VERSION_TUPLE))
 
 # Tk windowing system (auto set up in init.py)