diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3a639b71..a78b6a0d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 * NEWS (user visible changes)
 
-** Release 0.8 (unreleased)
+** Release 0.8 <2010-10-23 Sat>
    
    - There's now 'mu extract' for getting information about MIME-parts
      (attachments) and saving them
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index d9209dd9..d7803152 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -16,26 +16,23 @@
    - [ ] clean up mu-msg-field, add formatting(?)
    - [ ] xml,json,sexp output
    - [ ] completion for zsh
+   - [ ] don't make test mail files executable
 
-** release 0.8 [69%]
+** release 0.8 [100%]
    - [X] remove gio dependency
    - [X] fix macos/wordexp bug(?)
    - [X] fix rhel5 installation issue
    - [X] fix non-ascii searches 
    - [X] summary
    - [X] attachment handling
-   - [ ] review docs
-   - [ ] don't make test mail files executable
+   - [X] review docs
    - [X] add summary unit test(s)
-   - [ ] add attachment unit test(s)
+   - [X] add attachment unit test(s)
    - [X] fix e-mail address searches (issue #21)
-   - [ ] mu-easy.1, man page with simple examples
+   - [X] mu-easy.1, man page with simple examples
    - [X] fix progress info
 
-
-
 	  
-
 * Release already done
 
 ** release 0.7 [100%]
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 7cd2334e..e2af3eb0 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 ## along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
 ## Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.  
 
-AC_INIT([mu],[0.7.99],[http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu])
+AC_INIT([mu],[0.8],[http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/mu.cc])
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([dist-bzip2])
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])
 # note that MU_XAPIAN_DB_VERSION does not necessarily follow MU
 # versioning, as we hopefully don't have updates for each version;
 # also, this has nothing to do with Xapian's software version
-AC_DEFINE(MU_XAPIAN_DB_VERSION,["7.9"], [Schema version of the database])
+AC_DEFINE(MU_XAPIAN_DB_VERSION,["8.0"], [Schema version of the database])
 
 LT_INIT # don't use AC_PROG_LIBTOOL anymore