diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 152330d..45abe50 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Please see [`tsml_eval`](https://github.com/time-series-machine-learning/tsml-ev
 is more of a sandbox for testing out new ideas and algorithms. It may contain some
 algorithms and implementations that are not available in the other toolkits.
 
-The current release of `tsml` is v0.7.1.
+The current release of `tsml` is v0.8.0.
 
 ## Installation
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 02ea397..0c12cb5 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "tsml"
-version = "0.7.1"
+version = "0.8.0"
 description = "A development sandbox for time series machine learning algorithms which dont fit into aeon."
 authors = [
     {name = "Matthew Middlehurst", email = "m.b.middlehurst@soton.ac.uk"},
diff --git a/tsml/__init__.py b/tsml/__init__.py
index e649751..f4b177d 100644
--- a/tsml/__init__.py
+++ b/tsml/__init__.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 """tsml."""
 
-__version__ = "0.7.1"
+__version__ = "0.8.0"