diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 7afb739613e075d98c57fa7bc349563ac5a609e2..07d0d9b59cf842e9d56caad56aebbde24dd85820 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 # Specify the required version of CMake.
 # cmake 3.10 required for ctest/gtest integration
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.10)
-project(ale VERSION 0.7.3 DESCRIPTION "Abstraction Library for Ephemerides ")
+project(ale VERSION 0.8.0 DESCRIPTION "Abstraction Library for Ephemerides ")
 
 # include what we need
 include(GNUInstallDirs)
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 555454b9461f6779ed93b477d46a87f885397f48..3b1a2b7638be925a4454378db3655ffaa4ec84c6 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import sys
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
 NAME = "Ale"
-VERSION = "0.7.3"
+VERSION = "0.8.0"
 
 # To install the library, run the following
 #