diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Package: revealjs
 Type: Package
 Title: R Markdown Format for 'reveal.js' Presentations
-Version: 0.7.9001
-Date: 2016-08-01
+Version: 0.8
+Date: 2016-12-14
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Hakim", "El Hattab", role = c("aut", "cph"),
        comment = "reveal.js-3.2.0, https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js"),
diff --git a/inst/NEWS b/inst/NEWS
index dfb9c84..0a751bb 100644
--- a/inst/NEWS
+++ b/inst/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Version 0.8 (unreleased)
+Version 0.8
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 - Add support for the chalkboard plugin