diff --git a/qutebrowser/__init__.py b/qutebrowser/__init__.py
index 61c181ff4..83d641e25 100644
--- a/qutebrowser/__init__.py
+++ b/qutebrowser/__init__.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ __copyright__ = "Copyright 2014-2016 Florian Bruhin (The Compiler)"
 __license__ = "GPL"
 __maintainer__ = __author__
 __email__ = "mail@qutebrowser.org"
-__version_info__ = (0, 7, 0)
+__version_info__ = (0, 8, 0)
 __version__ = '.'.join(str(e) for e in __version_info__)
 __description__ = "A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on PyQt5 and QtWebKit."
 
diff --git a/tests/unit/config/test_config.py b/tests/unit/config/test_config.py
index bd8e92910..45cac9c5d 100644
--- a/tests/unit/config/test_config.py
+++ b/tests/unit/config/test_config.py
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ class TestDefaultConfig:
         If it did change, place a new qutebrowser-vx.y.z.conf in old_configs
         and then increment the version.
         """
-        assert qutebrowser.__version__ == '0.7.0'
+        assert qutebrowser.__version__ == '0.8.0'
 
     @pytest.mark.parametrize('filename',
         os.listdir(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'old_configs')),