diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 2d053da..af557ff 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
-8.0.0b1 (2021-12-16)
---------------------
+8.0.0 (2022-02-10)
+------------------
 
 Added
 ^^^^^
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ Added
 * Added support for v8.0 of the Python Elasticsearch client (`#415`_)
 * Added a warning if Eland detects it's communicating with an incompatible Elasticsearch version (`#419`_)
 * Added support for ``number_samples`` to LightGBM and Scikit-Learn models (`#397`_, contributed by `@V1NAY8`_)
+* Added ability to use datetime types for filtering dataframes (`284`_, contributed by `@Fju`_)
+* Added pandas ``datetime64`` type to use the Elasticsearch ``date`` type (`#425`_, contributed by `@Ashton-Sidhu`_)
+* Added ``es_verify_mapping_compatibility`` parameter to disable schema enforcement with ``pandas_to_eland`` (`#423`_, contributed by `@Ashton-Sidhu`_)
 
 Changed
 ^^^^^^^
@@ -21,11 +24,16 @@ Changed
 * Changed ``to_pandas()`` to only use Point-in-Time and ``search_after`` instead of using Scroll APIs
   for pagination.
 
+.. _@Fju: https://github.com/Fju
+.. _@Ashton-Sidhu: https://github.com/Ashton-Sidhu
 .. _#419: https://github.com/elastic/eland/pull/419
 .. _#415: https://github.com/elastic/eland/pull/415
 .. _#397: https://github.com/elastic/eland/pull/397
 .. _#394: https://github.com/elastic/eland/pull/394
 .. _#403: https://github.com/elastic/eland/pull/403
+.. _#284: https://github.com/elastic/eland/pull/284
+.. _#424: https://github.com/elastic/eland/pull/425
+.. _#423: https://github.com/elastic/eland/pull/423
 
 
 7.14.1b1 (2021-08-30)
diff --git a/eland/_version.py b/eland/_version.py
index d74f7a0..73017be 100644
--- a/eland/_version.py
+++ b/eland/_version.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 __title__ = "eland"
 __description__ = "Python Client and Toolkit for DataFrames, Big Data, Machine Learning and ETL in Elasticsearch"
 __url__ = "https://github.com/elastic/eland"
-__version__ = "8.0.0b1"
+__version__ = "8.0.0"
 __author__ = "Steve Dodson"
 __author_email__ = "steve.dodson@elastic.co"
 __maintainer__ = "Seth Michael Larson"
diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index 3b0f186..52b8d5a 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-elasticsearch>=8.0.0a1,<9
+elasticsearch>=8,<9
 pandas>=1.2.0
 matplotlib
 pytest>=5.2.1
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 215bf46..b350c1e 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ with open(path.join(here, "eland", "_version.py"), "r", "utf-8") as f:
     exec(f.read(), about)
 
 CLASSIFIERS = [
-    "Development Status :: 4 - Beta",
+    "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable",
     "License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License",
     "Environment :: Console",
     "Operating System :: OS Independent",
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ setup(
     keywords="elastic eland pandas python",
     packages=find_packages(include=["eland", "eland.*"]),
     install_requires=[
-        "elasticsearch>=8.0.0a1,<9",
+        "elasticsearch>=8,<9",
         "pandas>=1.2,<1.4",
         "matplotlib",
         "numpy",