diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1090f98d542f15d773701b3bc89339eb9e21922c..6cc989742dc8175de8efc20e41150aad41e55b5a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,44 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [0.8.0] - 2020-09-15
+## Added
+- Both client library and daemon have been extended to support the ofi+verbs
+  protocol.
+- A new Python testing harness has been implemented to support integration
+  tests. The end goal is to increase the robustness of the code in the mid- to
+  long-term.
+- The RPC protocol and the usage of shared memory for intra-node communication
+  no longer need to be activated on compile time. New arguments
+  `-P|--rpc-protocol` and `--auto-sm` have been added to the daemon to this
+  effect. This configuration options are propagated to clients when they
+  initialize and contact daemons.
+- Native support for the Omni-Path network protocol by choosing the `ofi+psm2`
+  RPC protocol. Note that this requires `libfabric`'s version to be greater
+  than `1.8` as well as `psm2` to be installed in the system. Clients must set
+  `FI_PSM2_DISCONNECT=1` to be able to reconnect once the client is shut down
+  once.
+  *Known limitations:* Client reconnect doesn't always work. Apparently, if
+  clients reconnect too fast the servers won't accept the connections. Also,
+  currently more than 16 clients per node are not supported.
+- A new execution mode called `GekkoFWD` that allows GekkoFS to run as
+  a user-level I/O forwarding infrastructure for applications. In this mode,
+  I/O operations from an application are intercepted and forwarded to a single
+  GekkoFS daemon that is chosen according to a pre-defined distribution. In the
+  daemons, the requests are scheduled using the AGIOS scheduling library before
+  they are dispatched to the shared backend parallel file system.
+- The `fsync()` system call is now fully supported.
+## Changed
+- Argobots tasks in the daemon are now wrapped in a dedicated class,
+  effectively removing the dependency. This lays ground work for future
+  non-Argobots I/O implementations.
+- The `readdir()` implementation has been refactored and improved.
+- Improvements on how to the installation scripts manage dependencies.
+## Fixed
+- The server sometimes crashed due to uncaught system errors in the storage
+  backend. This has now been fixed.
+- Fixed a bug that broke `ls` on some architectures.
+
 ## [0.7.0] - 2020-02-05
 ## Added
  - Adedd support for `eventfd()`and `eventfd2()` system calls.
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 965bea6fded732d59b0e28fa2fb10585ebc74c48..2f3a2a1904891c7b0db0b2cf55fb67151822efa9 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.6)
 
 project(
     GekkoFS
-    VERSION 0.7.0
+    VERSION 0.8.0
 )
 
 enable_testing()
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 97cb559fc67f2447081a07d3afe0cf7140a0f397..96c439c45fa6cf63e504ccef52955ef2701d2663 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 # GekkoFS
+
+[![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-blue.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
+[![pipeline status](https://storage.bsc.es/gitlab/hpc/gekkofs/badges/master/pipeline.svg)](https://storage.bsc.es/gitlab/hpc/gekkofs/commits/master)
+
 GekkoFS is a file system capable of aggregating the local I/O capacity and performance of each compute node
 in a HPC cluster to produce a high-performance storage space that can be accessed in a distributed manner.
 This storage space allows HPC applications and simulations to run in isolation from each other with regards 
@@ -161,7 +165,7 @@ Allowed options:
                             available.
   -r [ --rootdir ] arg      Local data directory where GekkoFS data for this 
                             daemon is stored.
-  -i [ --metadir ] arg      Metadata directory where GekkoFS' RocksDB data 
+  -i [ --metadir ] arg      Metadata directory where GekkoFS RocksDB data
                             directory is located. If not set, rootdir is used.
   -l [ --listen ] arg       Address or interface to bind the daemon to. 
                             Default: local hostname.