diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index fcadfa8baeec099f2693bef22706b33b57683d12..25221c3fc1161c7e4a0a04929959c6448e608832 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,9 +1,33 @@
+BornAgain-0.9.8, released 2014.08.28
+  > Summary: 
+    1) Further GUI development toward first beta scheduled for October, 2014.
+       Implemented rotation of particles in GUI, real time simulation window.
+    2) Few bugfixes, minor refactoring in UserAPI.
+  > Details:
+  * Bug #741: ScalarSpecularInfoMapTest failing under Debian 32 bits
+  * Bug #764: Memory leackage in mesocrystal simulation.
+  * Bug #765: Genetic minimizer crashes for certain ROOT configurations
+  * Bug #779: Transformations on core/shell are not being used
+  * Feature #465: Organize BornAgain mail list with subscription
+  * Feature #604: Implement QStandartItemModel hierarchy
+  * Feature #682: Provide PlotWidget with x,y-axis in both, radians and degrees.
+  * Feature #702: Implement position particle info equivalent in GUI
+  * Feature #703: Implement rotation of particles in GUI
+  * Feature #704: Implement Lattice2D interference function in GUI
+  * Feature #736: Compile GUI under Windows with Qt5.3 and provide installer.
+  * Feature #738: Perform new round of profiling and memory leackage investigation
+  * Feature #746: Refactor GUI's OutputDataWidget to disantagle projections/property editor/plot widget.
+  * Feature #747: Finalize QuickSimulationView.
+  * Feature #748: Refactor IAxis family
+  * Feature #763: Provide icon set for recent widgets
+  * Feature #766: Propagate latest API changes (IAxis, IntensityDataIOFactory) into user manual.
+  
 BornAgain-0.9.7, released 2014.07.31
   > Summary: 
     1) Further GUI development toward first beta scheduled for October, 2014.
     2) Redesign of RT coefficient calculations to reduce numerical instabilities in very thick layers.
     3) Improvements in Monte-Carlo integration to cope with highly oscillatory form factors of super large particles.
-    3) Experimental support for running BornAgain on high performance computing clusters under OpenMPI environment.
+    4) Experimental support for running BornAgain on high performance computing clusters under OpenMPI environment.
   > Details:
   * Bug #578: Initialization problem in LLData class
   * Bug #706: Layer cannot be dropped from widgetbox to designer scene
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 9cf93aab8ce2ba7c12ac2676207d435bd8f16187..473397acd9ebd84317d3d1616b3dc1575435a441 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ project(BornAgain)
 # --- The version number ---
 set(BornAgain_VERSION_MAJOR 0)
 set(BornAgain_VERSION_MINOR 9)
-set(BornAgain_VERSION_PATCH 7)
+set(BornAgain_VERSION_PATCH 8)
 
 # --- General project settings ---
 option(BORNAGAIN_PYTHON "Build with python support" ON)
diff --git a/Doc/UserManual/CMakeLists.txt b/Doc/UserManual/CMakeLists.txt
index a53af6fff21759b0d47e32326b07e7b26b9626b7..9139781e1a8bf56c192c09fb13e1c4639331f815 100644
--- a/Doc/UserManual/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Doc/UserManual/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ project(UserManual NONE)
 # user manual version number will be automatically propagated into tes
 set(UM_VERSION_MAJOR 0)
 set(UM_VERSION_MINOR 2)
-set(UM_VERSION_PATCH 5)
+set(UM_VERSION_PATCH 6)
 
 
 set(LATEX_COMPILER_FLAGS
diff --git a/Doc/UserManual/UserManualVersion.tex b/Doc/UserManual/UserManualVersion.tex
index 54e9f6dfe99445b3b62b08b55cdced95bb6b27dc..e765268726f694f77bae5659cade28ee412abba9 100644
--- a/Doc/UserManual/UserManualVersion.tex
+++ b/Doc/UserManual/UserManualVersion.tex
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 % User Manual version number
 % this file is automatically generated by CMakeLists.txt using cmake/modules/UserManualVersion.tex.in
 
-\newcommand{\UserManualVersionNumber}{0.2.5}
+\newcommand{\UserManualVersionNumber}{0.2.6}