diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index abffbac..99b48b8 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ BUILD_DIR   := $(CURDIR)/build
 # the package version from there directly. The C code picks up VERSION
 # via the generated src/version.h (written by the version-header target
 # below and depended on by the module build).
-VERSION     := 0.7.2
+VERSION     := 0.8.0
 
 NGINX_SRC ?=
 
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index e5db033..8134236 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,23 @@
+nginx-ipng-stats-plugin (0.8.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Pre-release v0.8.0.
+    - Log handler now accounts for request bodies that nginx
+      discarded before any handler could read them (rate-limit
+      403, auth_request denial, 413 on fixed Content-Length,
+      early `return 4xx;` on POST). Those paths route through
+      ngx_http_discard_request_body / HTTP/2 skip_data, both of
+      which drop bytes without touching r->request_length —
+      leaving nginx_ipng_bytes_in_total blind to most of the
+      wire on rate-limited POST-heavy workloads (observed ~20x
+      gap against btop on a CT-log-style box). When
+      r->discard_body is set and the client advertised a
+      Content-Length, we now add content_length_n to bin_sz.
+      Normal 200-OK POSTs are unchanged. See docs/nginx-issues.md
+      for the full analysis of which nginx paths update
+      r->request_length and which don't.
+
+ -- Pim van Pelt <pim@ipng.ch>  Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:59:53 +0200
+
 nginx-ipng-stats-plugin (0.7.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Pre-release v0.7.2.