diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 5eeebd56..913e8c3f 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name="hsds",
-    version="0.7.3",
+    version="0.8.0",
     description="HDF REST API",
     url="http://github.com/HDFGroup/hsds",
     author="John Readey",