diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ea7dfa1..7390fcf 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [0.1.0a8] - 2025-10-01
+
 - Annotate `ftl` file source code when reporting parse errors to allow ergonomic debugging.
 - Support passing `pathlib.Path` in `ftl_filenames` (in addition to `str`) when creating a `Bundle`. This allows using non-unicode paths on unix systems.
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e699d43..33445ab 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ classifiers = [
 ]
 # Do not manually edit the version, use `make version_{type}` instead.
 # This should match the version in the [tool.bumpversion] section.
-version = "0.1.0a7"
+version = "0.1.0a8"
 dependencies = []
 
 [project.urls]
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ filterwarnings = "error"
 [tool.bumpversion]
 # Do not manually edit the version, use `make version_{type}` instead.
 # This should match the version in the [project] section.
-current_version = "0.1.0a7"
+current_version = "0.1.0a8"
 parse = "(?P<major>\\d+)\\.(?P<minor>\\d+)\\.(?P<patch>\\d+)"
 serialize = ["{major}.{minor}.{patch}"]
 search = "{current_version}"