diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a0bc1d10f..6acc82e8b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,17 @@
 Changelog
 ===
 
+## Version 8.0.0
+### ⚠ BREAKING CHANGES
+
+* CHANGE: commit ecb7f61dd4c04eeec9b9380329f721036cc2a436 should
+have been considerred a breaking change. When using user variables
+(`{user.email}`), they no longer wrap the output in span tags.
+
+### ✨ New & Improved
+
+* incremen version to v8 ([6115553](https://github.com/readmeio/markdown/commit/611555304f40177da8ff311eadd41c2f64381939))
+
 ## Version 7.14.0
 ### ✨ New & Improved
 
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index beb161b3a..4e1ffbd67 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "@readme/markdown",
-  "version": "7.14.0",
+  "version": "8.0.0",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "@readme/markdown",
-      "version": "7.14.0",
+      "version": "8.0.0",
       "license": "MIT",
       "dependencies": {
         "@mdx-js/mdx": "^3.0.0",
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 04fc62e45..659a7bb84 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   "name": "@readme/markdown",
   "description": "ReadMe's React-based Markdown parser",
   "author": "Rafe Goldberg <rafe@readme.io>",
-  "version": "7.14.0",
+  "version": "8.0.0",
   "main": "dist/main.node.js",
   "types": "dist/index.d.ts",
   "browser": "dist/main.js",