diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index 534ec26c9..8c344b3eb 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Rocksdb Change Log
-## Unreleased
+## 6.8.0 (02/24/2020)
 ### Java API Changes
 * Major breaking changes to Java comparators, toward standardizing on ByteBuffer for performant, locale-neutral operations on keys (#6252).
 * Added overloads of common API methods using direct ByteBuffers for keys and values (#2283).
diff --git a/include/rocksdb/version.h b/include/rocksdb/version.h
index 15413664f..b8f1fe7cb 100644
--- a/include/rocksdb/version.h
+++ b/include/rocksdb/version.h
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 #pragma once
 
 #define ROCKSDB_MAJOR 6
-#define ROCKSDB_MINOR 7
+#define ROCKSDB_MINOR 8
 #define ROCKSDB_PATCH 0
 
 // Do not use these. We made the mistake of declaring macros starting with