diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ce19879..71ad74e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,88 @@
+Overview of changes in malcontent 0.8.0
+=======================================
+
+* Add user manual (!51)
+
+* Add a header bar and primary menu to the main UI (!58)
+
+* Bump Meson dependency to 0.50.0 (!59)
+
+* Fix translation of libmalcontent-ui widgets when used in other applications (!68)
+
+* Bugs fixed:
+ - !3 Remove use of libglib-testing subproject
+ - !50 Various meson cleanups
+ - !51 Add user manual/documentation
+ - !52 Update Polish translation 200329
+ - !53 Added Indonesian translation
+ - !54 Update Ukrainian translation
+ - !55 libmalcontent: Add enum types to fix introspection of MctManagerError
+ - !56 Update Polish translation 200405
+ - !57 Update Ukrainian translation + docs translation
+ - !58 malcontent-control: Add a header bar and primary menu
+ - !59 meson: bump minimum version to 0.50.0
+ - !60 user-controls: Add a fallback bus connection
+ - !62 Added Indonesian help translation
+ - !63 Import translations from Endless
+ - !64 Import zh_TW translation from Endless
+ - !65 Add translator comments for about dialog strings
+ - !66 Update Brazilian Portuguese translation
+ - !67 Add Brazilian Portuguese translation
+ - !68 Fix translation of libmalcontent-ui
+
+* Translation updates:
+ - Afrikaans
+ - Arabic
+ - Bangla
+ - Basque
+ - Bokmål, Norwegian
+ - Bulgarian
+ - Catalan
+ - Catalan — valencia.UTF-8
+ - Chinese (Taiwan)
+ - Croatian
+ - Czech
+ - Danish
+ - Dutch
+ - Esperanto
+ - Finnish
+ - French
+ - Friulian
+ - Gaelic
+ - Galician
+ - German
+ - Greek, Modern (1453-)
+ - Hebrew
+ - Hindi
+ - Hungarian
+ - Indonesian
+ - Italian
+ - Kazakh
+ - Korean
+ - Latvian
+ - Lithuanian
+ - Malay
+ - Malayalam
+ - Occitan (post 1500)
+ - Panjabi
+ - Persian
+ - Polish
+ - Portuguese
+ - Portuguese (Brazil)
+ - Romanian
+ - Russian
+ - Serbian
+ - Serbian — latin.UTF-8
+ - Slovak
+ - Slovenian
+ - Spanish
+ - Swedish
+ - Thai
+ - Turkish
+ - Ukrainian
+ - Vietnamese
+
+
 Overview of changes in malcontent 0.7.0
 =======================================
 
diff --git a/malcontent-control/org.freedesktop.MalcontentControl.appdata.xml.in b/malcontent-control/org.freedesktop.MalcontentControl.appdata.xml.in
index d39df25..8e00616 100644
--- a/malcontent-control/org.freedesktop.MalcontentControl.appdata.xml.in
+++ b/malcontent-control/org.freedesktop.MalcontentControl.appdata.xml.in
@@ -44,6 +44,15 @@
   </kudos>
   <translation type="gettext">malcontent</translation>
   <releases>
+    <release version="0.8.0" date="2020-04-28" type="stable">
+      <description>
+        <ul>
+          <li>Minor improvements to parental controls application UI</li>
+          <li>Add a user manual</li>
+          <li>Translation updates</li>
+        </ul>
+      </description>
+    </release>
     <release version="0.7.0" date="2020-03-24" type="stable">
       <description>
         <ul>
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 3b50f4e..6e1dfa5 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 project('malcontent', 'c',
-  version : '0.7.0',
+  version : '0.8.0',
   meson_version : '>= 0.50.0',
   license: ['LGPL-2.1-or-later', 'GPL-2.0-or-later'],
   default_options : [