diff --git a/changelog.md b/changelog.md
index 15d166249b..0d1bc050b3 100644
--- a/changelog.md
+++ b/changelog.md
@@ -2,7 +2,52 @@
 
 ## 2.8.0~rc1
 
+### Web applications
+* Updated strings based on translator feedback (#7057)
+* Improved redwood stream performance and testing (#7070)
+* Dependency changes:
+  * openssl rust crate from 0.10.57 to 0.10.60 (#7083)
+  * cryptography from 41.0.3 to 41.0.7 (#7086)
+  * rustix rust crate from 0.38.18 to 0.38.21 (#7114)
+
+### Operations
+* Updated copyright strings to reference 2024 (#7099)
+* Removed deprecated mitigation for CVE-2019-3462 (#7053)
+* Improved logic for installing admin tool apt dependencies in Tails (#7088)
+* Added support for Tails 6 to admin tools (#7116)
 
+### CI
+* Updated CI to verify that the demo container builds and runs (#7052)
+* Updated GCE CI machine type to c2-standard-8 (#7087)
+* Moved various CI jobs to Github Actions (#6969)
+* Fixed cargo-vet binary caching (#7065)
+* Upgraded to cargo-vet 0.9.0 (#7101)
+* Enabled dependabot for Github Actions (#7102)
+* Dependabot updates (#7105, #7104, #7108)
+* Fixed broken apt caches in staging-test-with-rebase job (#7110)
+
+### Development
+* Updated packaging logic to exclude config.py (#7014)
+* Fixed broken link in contributing.md (#7028)
+* Added option to specific git remote for backport script (#7044)
+* Updated functional tests to run under Selenium 4 (#7100)
+* Updated docker run parameters to only pass -it if a tty is available (#7098)
+* Updated rust toolchain in CI and Dockerfiles to 1.74.1 (#7091)
+* Decreased cargo audit error threshold (#7083)
+* Fixed hot reload functionality in dev environment (#7120)
+* Dependency changes:
+  * MarkupSafe from 2.0.2 to 2.1.2 (#7006)
+  * Selenium from 3.141.0 to 4.16.0 (#7100)
+  * tbselenium from 0.5.2 to 0.8.1 (#7100)
+  * jinja2 from 3.0.2 to 3.1.3 (#7107, #7109)
+  * peewee from 3.15.0 to 3.17.1 (#7112)
+  * diffoscope from 236 to 256 (#7125)
+* Updated ignored safety alerts:
+  * Safety 61893 - CVE-2023-45803 (#7085)
+  * Safety 62019 - CVE-2023-46136 (#7085)
+  * Safety 63066 (#7100)
+  * Safety 63227 (#7100)
+  * Safety 65647 (#7122)
 
 ## 2.7.0
 
@@ -12,10 +57,11 @@
 * Update French diceware wordlist (#6936)
 * Replace pretty-bad-protocol dependency with vendored version (#6836, #6907)
 * Import Markup and escape from markupsafe (#6964)
-* Update wordlist to remove potentially confusing or offensive terms (#7008, #7021)
+* Update wordlist to remove potentially confusing or offensive terms (#7024, #7021)
 * Validate the submission key,disable Journalist and Source Interfaces if a weak key is found (#7059)
 * Dependency changes:
   * Update cryptography from 41.0.1 to 41.0.3 (#6940)
+  * Upgrade sequioa-openpgpg from 1.16.1 to 1.17.0 (#7041)
 
 ### Operations
 
@@ -48,7 +94,8 @@
   * Remove hypothesis dependency (#6893)
   * Update certifi from 2022.12.7 to 2023.7.22 (#6900)
   * Update pillow from 9.3.0 to 10.0.1 (#6959)
-  * Update markupsafe from 2.0.1 to 2.1.2 (#7014)
+  * Update markupsafe from 2.0.1 to 2.1.2 (#7006)
+* Miscellaneous changes (#7008)
 
 ## 2.6.1
 
diff --git a/securedrop/debian/changelog b/securedrop/debian/changelog
index f09454464e..61aad7d5d5 100644
--- a/securedrop/debian/changelog
+++ b/securedrop/debian/changelog
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 securedrop (2.8.0~rc1+focal) focal; urgency=medium
 
-  * 
+  * see changelog.md
+
+ -- SecureDrop Team <securedrop@freedom.press>  Fri, 01 Mar 2024 17:30:46 -0500
 
- -- SecureDrop Team <securedrop@freedom.press>  Thu, 09 Nov 2023 10:04:49 -0500
 
 securedrop (2.7.0+focal) focal; urgency=medium