diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f76f8530..32129953 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,14 @@ Versioning: [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [0.8.0] Eyrie (2026-09-29)
+
+General-availability release of the 0.8 line. The only change from
+`0.8.0-rc.6` is this version. Read the `0.8.0-rc.6` section below for the
+release notes, the upgrade notes and the known limitations. The sections for
+earlier candidates record what each one changed. Nothing is inherited from any
+candidate: every gate runs again against this build.
+
 ## [0.8.0-rc.6] Eyrie (2026-09-27)
 
 `v0.8.0-rc.5` built, passed every machine gate, and its assets were
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e647ac36..a2620c0e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ and how it is built.
 > Python/FastAPI implementation was archived out of the repo on 2026-06-05). The
 > Go tree lives at the **repo root**: Go 1.26 backend (`cmd/`, `internal/`),
 > React 19 + TanStack frontend (`frontend/`), PostgreSQL-only. The current
-> version is `0.8.0-rc.6`, on the general-availability line that opened with `0.2.0`.
+> version is `0.8.0`, on the general-availability line that opened with `0.2.0`.
 
 ![OpenWatch Host Management: a fleet of RHEL and Ubuntu hosts with per-host compliance scores against the Kensa corpus](docs/images/host-management.png)
 
diff --git a/packaging/version.env b/packaging/version.env
index 5dddf634..ac2bfa01 100644
--- a/packaging/version.env
+++ b/packaging/version.env
@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@
 #
 # The Go binary's ldflags read this file via the Makefile; build scripts
 # in packaging/{rpm,deb}/ source it for spec macros.
-VERSION="0.8.0-rc.6"
+VERSION="0.8.0"
 CODENAME="Eyrie"