diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index d0f55291..eb91f302 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -27,3 +27,4 @@ Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
 Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>
 Percy Jahn <email@percyjahn.de>
 Qais Patankar <qaisjp@gmail.com>
+Rian Hunter <rian@alum.mit.edu>
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f32d9d28..98a2c9c9 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-Unreleased Changes
-------------------
+Release 2.7 (2016-06-22)
+------------------------
 
 * Added support for the "fsync" extension.
 * Fixed a build problem with bitbake	
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index ed23d0ca..7c0cdd11 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-AC_INIT(sshfs, 2.7)
+AC_INIT(sshfs, 2.8)
 AC_CANONICAL_TARGET
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign subdir-objects])
 AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)