diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog
index 406236af3dee34bd6b74354d352dc97b1691a99c..23b2d5e305b2f8058e4ecb757f331adbfde80cda 100644
--- a/Changelog
+++ b/Changelog
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Version 3.8dev4, 2022-12-16
+Version 3.8, 2022-12-20
 
   Features:
   * Drop support for Python 3.5. Support for 2.7 will be dropped
diff --git a/doc/conf.py b/doc/conf.py
index f6e89831cc19f7ed7980aa5197e422f9533a4ab1..4aabb5ab16fe7eed18927d8718e99e01329c013d 100644
--- a/doc/conf.py
+++ b/doc/conf.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import functools
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = '3.8dev4'
+version = '3.8'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
 #release = '2.16dev5'
 release = version
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 252a2295473de8aec3e71f4e4843140c22cf02af..9822852f95eea98e31254eb6bb5ba83b6fa89264 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import stat
 import sys
 
 #VERSION = "2.1dev4"
-VERSION = "3.8dev4"
+VERSION = "3.8"
 
 # Taken from kennethreitz/requests/setup.py
 package_directory = os.path.realpath(os.path.dirname(__file__))