diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 846085b6..61c053dd 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-## 0.8.8-dev1
-
+## 0.8.8
 * fix: pdfminer-six dependencies
 * feat: `PageLayout.elements` is now a `cached_property` to reduce unecessary memory and cpu costs
 
diff --git a/unstructured_inference/__version__.py b/unstructured_inference/__version__.py
index 0929fcec..84427417 100644
--- a/unstructured_inference/__version__.py
+++ b/unstructured_inference/__version__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "0.8.8-dev1"  # pragma: no cover
+__version__ = "0.8.8"  # pragma: no cover