diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index cd8e90f..acb92e9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
 # Changelog
 
-## Unreleased
+## 0.8.0-rc1 (2018-04-11)
 
-**[compare](https://github.com/reagent-project/reagent/compare/v0.8.0-alpha2...master)**
+**[compare](https://github.com/reagent-project/reagent/compare/v0.8.0-alpha2...v0.8.0-rc1)**
+
+Unless defaulting to React 16 causes problems, final release should follow soon.
 
 - Reagent documentation is now maintained as part of the repository, in [docs](./docs) folder.
 - Default to React 16
-- Apply vector metadata to the outermost element when using nesting shorthard ([#262](https://github.com/reagent-project/reagent/issues/262))
+- Apply vector metadata to the outermost element when using nesting shorthand ([#262](https://github.com/reagent-project/reagent/issues/262))
 - Add `:<>` shorthand for [React Fragments](https://reactjs.org/docs/fragments.html) ([#352](https://github.com/reagent-project/reagent/pull/352)])
 - Fix `:class` property with custom elements ([#322](https://github.com/reagent-project/reagent/issues/322))
 - Remove synthetic input support (added in previous alpha) ([#351](https://github.com/reagent-project/reagent/pull/351))
diff --git a/project.clj b/project.clj
index 0378747..60fdf26 100644
--- a/project.clj
+++ b/project.clj
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-(defproject reagent "0.8.0-alpha3"
+(defproject reagent "0.8.0-rc1"
   :url "http://github.com/reagent-project/reagent"
   :license {:name "MIT"}
   :description "A simple ClojureScript interface to React"