diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index e7ca6139..64f3cdd6 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  ".": "0.7.0"
+  ".": "0.8.0"
 }
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e2c73a11..69e78762 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,24 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [0.8.0](https://github.com/Gitlawb/openclaude/compare/v0.7.0...v0.8.0) (2026-04-29)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* add Opus 4.7 as default model and fix alias/thinking bugs ([#928](https://github.com/Gitlawb/openclaude/issues/928)) ([4c93a9f](https://github.com/Gitlawb/openclaude/commit/4c93a9f9f168217d4bdd53d103337e43f28be074))
+* add streaming token counter ([#797](https://github.com/Gitlawb/openclaude/issues/797)) ([0ca4333](https://github.com/Gitlawb/openclaude/commit/0ca43335375beec6e58711b797d5b0c4bb5019b8))
+* **api:** deterministic request-body serialization via stableStringify ([#882](https://github.com/Gitlawb/openclaude/issues/882)) ([6ea3eb6](https://github.com/Gitlawb/openclaude/commit/6ea3eb64830ccfec1436bcebe2406158e14a7e81))
+* context preloading and hybrid context strategy ([#860](https://github.com/Gitlawb/openclaude/issues/860)) ([92d297e](https://github.com/Gitlawb/openclaude/commit/92d297e50efcc7225f57f0d3cb0ba989dc40d624))
+* SDK Foundation — Type Declarations, Errors, and Utilities ([#866](https://github.com/Gitlawb/openclaude/issues/866)) ([91f93ce](https://github.com/Gitlawb/openclaude/commit/91f93ce61533a9cadd1d107e09a442451c09f5db))
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* avoid legacy Windows PasswordVault reads by default ([#941](https://github.com/Gitlawb/openclaude/issues/941)) ([d321c8f](https://github.com/Gitlawb/openclaude/commit/d321c8fc6a0be6731c1ccfec0fca8023b1a8b67e))
+* **input:** strip leading ! when entering bash mode ([#947](https://github.com/Gitlawb/openclaude/issues/947)) ([5943c5c](https://github.com/Gitlawb/openclaude/commit/5943c5c269cdeba45879dac0d8da0082e28cc2a2)), closes [#662](https://github.com/Gitlawb/openclaude/issues/662)
+* **ripgrep:** use @vscode/ripgrep package as the builtin source ([#911](https://github.com/Gitlawb/openclaude/issues/911)) ([#932](https://github.com/Gitlawb/openclaude/issues/932)) ([ee0d930](https://github.com/Gitlawb/openclaude/commit/ee0d9300939db0c6178bfad4707a0be45f126d1f))
+* **typecheck:** make `bun run typecheck` actionable on main ([#473](https://github.com/Gitlawb/openclaude/issues/473)) ([#938](https://github.com/Gitlawb/openclaude/issues/938)) ([8106880](https://github.com/Gitlawb/openclaude/commit/8106880855ee0bb4b5bbca8827cfe97fe99558b8))
+
 ## [0.7.0](https://github.com/Gitlawb/openclaude/compare/v0.6.0...v0.7.0) (2026-04-26)
 
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index f3e24d87..1cb9b323 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@gitlawb/openclaude",
-  "version": "0.7.0",
+  "version": "0.8.0",
   "description": "OpenClaude opens coding-agent workflows to any LLM — OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek, Ollama, and 200+ models",
   "type": "module",
   "bin": {