diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2c4dec7..828c19e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ This project intends to inhere to [Semantic
 Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html), but has not yet reached 1.0 so
 all APIs might be changed.
 
-## Unreleased - xxxx-xx-xx
+## v0.8.0-alpha.1 - 2024-01-19
 
 ### Breaking Changes
 
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 24c9c3c..4232370 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "graphql-ws-client"
-version = "0.7.0"
+version = "0.8.0-alpha.1"
 authors = ["Graeme Coupar <graeme@polyandglot.dev>"]
 edition = "2018"
 resolver = "2"
diff --git a/examples-wasm/Cargo.toml b/examples-wasm/Cargo.toml
index c9d2d29..44b25a2 100644
--- a/examples-wasm/Cargo.toml
+++ b/examples-wasm/Cargo.toml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ console_log = "1"
 
 [dependencies.graphql-ws-client]
 path = "../"
-version = "0.7.0"
+version = "0.8.0-alpha.1"
 default-features = false
 features = ["cynic", "ws_stream_wasm"]
 
diff --git a/examples/Cargo.toml b/examples/Cargo.toml
index a185687..e1e89db 100644
--- a/examples/Cargo.toml
+++ b/examples/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ tokio = { version = "1.15", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "macros"] }
 
 [dependencies.graphql-ws-client]
 path = "../"
-version = "0.7.0"
+version = "0.8.0-alpha.1"
 default-features = false
 features = ["cynic", "async-tungstenite"]