diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f4b6dd014..a4a0c6e0d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,26 @@
 
 All notable changes to this project are documented in this file.
 
+## 0.8.0
+
+**Release date:** 2021-02-12
+
+This is the eight MINOR prerelease.
+
+This prerelease comes with support for excluding messages
+form alerting using regular expressions.
+
+Golang `pprof` endpoints have been enabled on the metrics server,
+making it easier to collect runtime information to debug performance issues.
+
+Features:
+* Implement regex exclusions for alerts
+  [#138](https://github.com/fluxcd/notification-controller/pull/138)
+
+Improvements:
+* Enable pprof endpoints on metrics server
+  [#136](https://github.com/fluxcd/notification-controller/pull/136)
+
 ## 0.7.1
 
 **Release date:** 2021-01-26
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 82c567ab4..c42271de7 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ COPY internal/ internal/
 # build
 RUN CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -a -o notification-controller main.go
 
-FROM alpine:3.12
+FROM alpine:3.13
 
 LABEL org.opencontainers.image.source="https://github.com/fluxcd/notification-controller"
 
diff --git a/config/manager/kustomization.yaml b/config/manager/kustomization.yaml
index 67f21ba59..80159ad58 100644
--- a/config/manager/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/config/manager/kustomization.yaml
@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ resources:
 images:
   - name: fluxcd/notification-controller
     newName: fluxcd/notification-controller
-    newTag: v0.7.1
+    newTag: v0.8.0
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 068a8e747..4408dad6f 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -5,12 +5,12 @@ go 1.15
 replace github.com/fluxcd/notification-controller/api => ./api
 
 require (
-	github.com/fluxcd/image-reflector-controller/api v0.4.1
-	github.com/fluxcd/notification-controller/api v0.7.1
+	github.com/fluxcd/image-reflector-controller/api v0.6.0
+	github.com/fluxcd/notification-controller/api v0.8.0
 	github.com/fluxcd/pkg/apis/meta v0.8.0
 	github.com/fluxcd/pkg/recorder v0.0.6
 	github.com/fluxcd/pkg/runtime v0.8.1
-	github.com/fluxcd/source-controller/api v0.7.1
+	github.com/fluxcd/source-controller/api v0.8.0
 	github.com/go-logr/logr v0.3.0
 	github.com/google/go-github/v32 v32.1.0
 	github.com/hashicorp/go-retryablehttp v0.6.8
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 976aa11f5..bea294544 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -97,8 +97,9 @@ github.com/evanphx/json-patch v4.5.0+incompatible/go.mod h1:50XU6AFN0ol/bzJsmQLi
 github.com/evanphx/json-patch v4.9.0+incompatible h1:kLcOMZeuLAJvL2BPWLMIj5oaZQobrkAqrL+WFZwQses=
 github.com/evanphx/json-patch v4.9.0+incompatible/go.mod h1:50XU6AFN0ol/bzJsmQLiYLvXMP4fmwYFNcr97nuDLSk=
 github.com/fatih/color v1.7.0/go.mod h1:Zm6kSWBoL9eyXnKyktHP6abPY2pDugNf5KwzbycvMj4=
-github.com/fluxcd/image-reflector-controller/api v0.4.1 h1:D1gJL6m7NYE8833eBoLT0qAJZ5Q2Yic3UtAEI10fiWg=
-github.com/fluxcd/image-reflector-controller/api v0.4.1/go.mod h1:MS3mGjZLnzZsfSqVLGbp0WNJr/k8XRFpw4G6ApLFTbc=
+github.com/fluxcd/image-reflector-controller/api v0.6.0 h1:M62HPqw2UvFRVNKy0EMtNUJC9BJ6HC3VULnV0gnqlpg=
+github.com/fluxcd/image-reflector-controller/api v0.6.0/go.mod h1:MS3mGjZLnzZsfSqVLGbp0WNJr/k8XRFpw4G6ApLFTbc=
+github.com/fluxcd/pkg/apis/meta v0.7.0 h1:5e8gm4OLqjuKWdrOIY5DEEsjcwzyJFK8rCDesJ+V8IY=
 github.com/fluxcd/pkg/apis/meta v0.7.0/go.mod h1:yHuY8kyGHYz22I0jQzqMMGCcHViuzC/WPdo9Gisk8Po=
 github.com/fluxcd/pkg/apis/meta v0.8.0 h1:wqWpUsxhKHB1ZztcvOz+vnyhdKW9cWmjFp8Vci/XOdk=
 github.com/fluxcd/pkg/apis/meta v0.8.0/go.mod h1:yHuY8kyGHYz22I0jQzqMMGCcHViuzC/WPdo9Gisk8Po=
@@ -106,8 +107,8 @@ github.com/fluxcd/pkg/recorder v0.0.6 h1:me/n8syeeGXz50OXoPX3jgIj9AtinvhHdKT9Dy+
 github.com/fluxcd/pkg/recorder v0.0.6/go.mod h1:IfQxfVRSNsWs3B0Yp5B6ObEWwKHILlAx8N7XkoDdhFg=
 github.com/fluxcd/pkg/runtime v0.8.1 h1:8UxNz7GeI/HC3U5tpNCfrjRx2V7UjUegQOwCsd+EWxk=
 github.com/fluxcd/pkg/runtime v0.8.1/go.mod h1:tQwEN+RESjJmtwSSv7I+6bkNM9raIXpGsCjruaIVX6A=
-github.com/fluxcd/source-controller/api v0.7.1 h1:GsiPhpApnt83H1TOA5aw/55N/oiMItaf+j9dVpvJedA=
-github.com/fluxcd/source-controller/api v0.7.1/go.mod h1:u2sdc/QDm0tzXHL7mZVj928hc3MMU+4mKCuAQg+94Bk=
+github.com/fluxcd/source-controller/api v0.8.0 h1:jOgeOwCLXzmjinRiDT7e/IuSB7WNZMgrUwMLJm09K/o=
+github.com/fluxcd/source-controller/api v0.8.0/go.mod h1:u2sdc/QDm0tzXHL7mZVj928hc3MMU+4mKCuAQg+94Bk=
 github.com/form3tech-oss/jwt-go v3.2.2+incompatible/go.mod h1:pbq4aXjuKjdthFRnoDwaVPLA+WlJuPGy+QneDUgJi2k=
 github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify v1.4.7/go.mod h1:jwhsz4b93w/PPRr/qN1Yymfu8t87LnFCMoQvtojpjFo=
 github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify v1.4.9 h1:hsms1Qyu0jgnwNXIxa+/V/PDsU6CfLf6CNO8H7IWoS4=