diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index b93d6b8..f3c2cd4 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 ## History
 
+### 0.2.8 (2021-10-26)
+- new: fix_type function: Option to convert date to datetime
+
 ### 0.2.7 (2021-07-11)
 - fix: getschema.fix_type function: A valid null object is rejected
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3d0cd2c..25944fe 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 from setuptools import setup
 
-VERSION = "0.2.7"
+VERSION = "0.2.8"
 
 with open("README.md", "r") as fh:
     long_description = fh.read()