diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 76b413feb10..5d1d0109d61 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,12 +6,12 @@
   This change was made to be able to deal with file paths that contain `:`, e.g. `s3://my-bucket/my:file.txt`. Furthermore, the `;` separator will become
   the default separator for all arguments with `multiple: true` in Viash >= 0.9.0.
 
-* This project now uses viash version 0.8.3 to build components and workflows. Changes related to this version update should
+* This project now uses viash version 0.8.4 to build components and workflows. Changes related to this version update should
   be _mostly_ backwards compatible with respect to the results and execution of the pipelines. From a development perspective,
   drastic updates have been made to the developemt workflow.
 
   Development related changes:
-    * Bump viash version to 0.8.3 (PR #598 and PR#638) in the project configuration.
+    * Bump viash version to 0.8.4 (PR #598, PR#638 and #706) in the project configuration.
     * All pipelines no longer use the anonymous workflow. Instead, these workflows were given
       a name which was added to the viash config as the entrypoint to the pipeline (PR #598).
     * Removed the `workflows` folder and moved its contents to new locations:
diff --git a/_viash.yaml b/_viash.yaml
index c5ede0fe537..55c6f9bafd4 100644
--- a/_viash.yaml
+++ b/_viash.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-viash_version: 0.8.3
+viash_version: 0.8.4
 
 source: src
 target: target