diff --git a/CommandLines.h b/CommandLines.h
index 7d1eeff..1b80837 100644
--- a/CommandLines.h
+++ b/CommandLines.h
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 #include <pthread.h>
 
-#define HA_VERSION "0.7-dirty-r256"
+#define HA_VERSION "0.8-r279"
 
 #define VERBOSE 0
 
diff --git a/hifiasm.1 b/hifiasm.1
index 9d8622e..1135d7b 100644
--- a/hifiasm.1
+++ b/hifiasm.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH hifiasm 1 "12 Apr 2020" "hifiasm-0.5.0" "Bioinformatics tools"
+.TH hifiasm 1 "27 June 2020" "hifiasm-0.8 (r279)" "Bioinformatics tools"
 
 .SH NAME
 .PP
@@ -322,5 +322,3 @@ For each graph, hifiasm also outputs a simplified version without sequences for
 the ease of visualization. Hifiasm keeps corrected reads and overlaps in three
 binary files such as it can regenerate assembly graphs from the binary files
 without redoing error correction.
-
-