From a92cdb1ef48a66722ad5e7b0aa35393ca8d47d8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Damian Rouson <damian@sourceryinstitute.org>
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 16:54:36 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Bump version to 2.8.0 for release

---
 .VERSION | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.VERSION b/.VERSION
index a350e3625..b895cd319 100644
--- a/.VERSION
+++ b/.VERSION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 $Format:%d%n%n$
 # Fall back version, probably last release:
-2.7.1
+2.8.0
 
 # OpenCoarrays version file. This project uses semantic
 # versioning. For details see http://semver.org