diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index bb98151..b689213 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -65,6 +65,14 @@
 
 Release Notes
 -------------
+## 4.8 - 23 Dec 2016
+- Search for repository names from the global header
+- Filter repositories on the sidebar of the dashboard
+- Search issues and wiki
+- Keep pull request comments after new commits are pushed
+- New web API to get a single issue
+- Performance improvement for the repository viewer
+
 ### 4.7.1 - 28 Nov 2016
 - Bug fix: group repositories are not shown in the your repositories list on the sidebar
 - Small performance improvement of the dashboard
diff --git a/build.sbt b/build.sbt
index 29a7d8b..a3e522d 100644
--- a/build.sbt
+++ b/build.sbt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 val Organization = "io.github.gitbucket"
 val Name = "gitbucket"
-val GitBucketVersion = "4.7.1"
+val GitBucketVersion = "4.8"
 val ScalatraVersion = "2.4.1"
 val JettyVersion = "9.3.9.v20160517"
 
diff --git a/src/main/scala/gitbucket/core/GitBucketCoreModule.scala b/src/main/scala/gitbucket/core/GitBucketCoreModule.scala
index 7fe8743..3fadd2d 100644
--- a/src/main/scala/gitbucket/core/GitBucketCoreModule.scala
+++ b/src/main/scala/gitbucket/core/GitBucketCoreModule.scala
@@ -23,5 +23,6 @@
     new LiquibaseMigration("update/gitbucket-core_4.7.xml"),
     new SqlMigration("update/gitbucket-core_4.7.sql")
   ),
-  new Version("4.7.1")
+  new Version("4.7.1"),
+  new Version("4.8")
 )