diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 662f87a7c2..7210976f8a 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -355,3 +355,4 @@ Eugen Dueck <eugen@dueck.org>
 Gil Pedersen <git@gpost.dk>
 Tyler Neylon <tylerneylon@gmail.com>
 Golo Roden <webmaster@goloroden.de>
+Ron Korving <rkorving@wizcorp.jp>
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 08fd4942ed..53f0c1a29c 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,4 +1,29 @@
-2012.08.15, Version 0.8.7 (Stable)
+2012.08.22, Version 0.8.8 (Stable)
+
+* V8: upgrade to 3.11.10.19
+
+* npm: upgrade to 1.1.59
+
+* windows: fix uninitialized memory access in uv_update_time() (Bert Belder)
+
+* unix, windows: fix memory corruption in fs-poll.c (Ben Noordhuis)
+
+* unix: fix integer overflow in uv_hrtime (Tim Holy)
+
+* sunos: fix uv_cpu_info() on x86_64 (Ben Noordhuis)
+
+* tls: update default cipher list (Ben Noordhuis)
+
+* unix: Fix llvm and older gcc duplicate symbol warnings (Bert Belder)
+
+* fs: fix use after free in stat watcher (Ben Noordhuis)
+
+* build: Fix using manually compiled gcc on OS X (Nathan Rajlich)
+
+* windows: make junctions work again (Bert Belder)
+
+
+2012.08.15, Version 0.8.7 (Stable), f640c5d35cba96634cd8176a525a1d876e361a61
 
 * npm: Upgrade to 1.1.49
 
diff --git a/src/node_version.h b/src/node_version.h
index 871b258de3..183ac2dd7c 100644
--- a/src/node_version.h
+++ b/src/node_version.h
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 #define NODE_MAJOR_VERSION 0
 #define NODE_MINOR_VERSION 8
 #define NODE_PATCH_VERSION 8
-#define NODE_VERSION_IS_RELEASE 0
+#define NODE_VERSION_IS_RELEASE 1
 
 #ifndef NODE_STRINGIFY
 #define NODE_STRINGIFY(n) NODE_STRINGIFY_HELPER(n)