diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e86d7bea..6e71ff59 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -426,3 +426,5 @@ This is technically not a operational change but I'm adding a new tag so it can
 #  2.7.0           update minimum version of jsonschema (2023-12-26)
 
 ##  2.7.1           Fix jsonschema warnings (2023-12-26)
+
+#  2.8.0           Initial gRPC support (2024-01-20)
diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index f59922ca..45274db2 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
 # The short X.Y version.
 version = "1.0"
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = "2.8.0"
+release = "2.9.0"
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 5e0e5636..393a78a2 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ keywords = ["testing", "pytest"]
 
 name = "tavern"
 description = "Simple testing of RESTful APIs"
-version = "2.8.0"
+version = "2.9.0"
 
 dependencies = [
     "PyYAML>=6.0.1,<7",
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ exclude = ["*_pb2.py", "*_pb2_grpc.py", "*_pb2.pyi"]
 docstring-code-format = true
 
 [tool.tbump.version]
-current = "2.8.0"
+current = "2.9.0"
 
 regex = '''
   (?P<major>\d+)
diff --git a/tavern/__init__.py b/tavern/__init__.py
index 2eb2bc4c..269aff8c 100644
--- a/tavern/__init__.py
+++ b/tavern/__init__.py
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 """Stop pytest warning about module already imported: PYTEST_DONT_REWRITE"""
-__version__ = "2.8.0"
+__version__ = "2.9.0"