diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE
index 1f1ed137220a..683553d956da 100644
--- a/ANNOUNCE
+++ b/ANNOUNCE
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
-Announcing: KornShell 93u+m/1.0.7
+Announcing: KornShell 93u+m/1.0.8
 https://github.com/ksh93/ksh
 
-Here is the seventh ksh 93u+m/1.0 bugfix release. It fixes a hang in
-command substitutions when combined with 'exec' and certain redirections.
+Here is the eighth ksh 93u+m/1.0 bugfix release. It fixes a bug that caused
+an incorrect default exit status for 'exit' within a trap action, as well as
+a race condition (introduced in 1.0.7) occurring on some systems when
+running an external command with a redirection from a command substitution.
 
 Further below is an overview of the main changes. For greater detail, see
 the NEWS file in the distribution. For complete detail, see the git(1)
@@ -68,6 +70,19 @@ Feel free to use Discussions to introduce yourself to the community.
 You can also join the mailing list/Google group at:
 https://groups.google.com/g/korn-shell
 
+### MAIN CHANGES between ksh 93u+m/1.0.7 and 93u+m/1.0.8 ###
+
+- Fixed a regression in the behavior of 'exit' in a trap action. The exit
+  status used when no argument is given to 'exit' is now once again the exit
+  status of the last command executed *before* the trap action.
+- Fixed a race condition, introduced in 1.0.7, that occurred on some systems
+  when running an external command with a standard output redirection from a
+  command substitution.
+- Fixed an init-time crash on failure to trim the shell command history file
+  due to a non-writable parent directory; ksh now prints a warning instead.
+- The 'kill' built-in command now correctly refuses to issue SIGSTOP to the
+  shell's own process if the shell is a login shell.
+
 ### MAIN CHANGES between ksh 93u+m/1.0.6 and 93u+m/1.0.7 ###
 
 - Fixed a hang in command substitutions (introduced in 93u+m/1.0.0) that was
diff --git a/COPYRIGHT b/COPYRIGHT
index dda32d5c04f8..ff394bd4e971 100644
--- a/COPYRIGHT
+++ b/COPYRIGHT
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ ksh 93u+m general copyright notice
 ########################################################################
 #                                                                      #
 #                   The KornShell 93u+m distribution                   #
-#          Copyright (c) 2020-2023 Contributors to ksh 93u+m           #
+#          Copyright (c) 2020-2024 Contributors to ksh 93u+m           #
 #                    <https://github.com/ksh93/ksh>                    #
 #             Derived from AT&T's ast package (see below)              #
 #       Licensed under the Eclipse Public License, Version 2.0         #
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 108427cbb5b8..5d1be9a90a96 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@ This documents significant changes in the 1.0 branch of ksh 93u+m.
 For full details, see the git log at: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/tree/1.0
 Uppercase BUG_* IDs are shell bug IDs as used by the Modernish shell library.
 
+2024-01-01:
+
+- Release 1.0.8.
+
 2023-12-28:
 
 - Fixed intermittent incorrect behaviour (a race condition), introduced on
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h b/src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h
index ff533261ee33..17aef2797a2e 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 *                                                                      *
 *               This software is part of the ast package               *
 *          Copyright (c) 1982-2012 AT&T Intellectual Property          *
-*          Copyright (c) 2020-2023 Contributors to ksh 93u+m           *
+*          Copyright (c) 2020-2024 Contributors to ksh 93u+m           *
 *                      and is licensed under the                       *
 *                 Eclipse Public License, Version 2.0                  *
 *                                                                      *
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@
 #include <releaseflags.h>
 
 #define SH_RELEASE_FORK	"93u+m"		/* only change if you develop a new ksh93 fork */
-#define SH_RELEASE_SVER	"1.0.8-beta"	/* semantic version number: https://semver.org */
-#define SH_RELEASE_DATE	"2023-12-28"	/* must be in this format for $((.sh.version)) */
-#define SH_RELEASE_CPYR	"(c) 2020-2023 Contributors to ksh " SH_RELEASE_FORK
+#define SH_RELEASE_SVER	"1.0.8"		/* semantic version number: https://semver.org */
+#define SH_RELEASE_DATE	"2024-01-01"	/* must be in this format for $((.sh.version)) */
+#define SH_RELEASE_CPYR	"(c) 2020-2024 Contributors to ksh " SH_RELEASE_FORK
 
 /* Scripts sometimes field-split ${.sh.version}, so don't change amount of whitespace. */
 /* Arithmetic $((.sh.version)) uses the last 10 chars, so the date must be at the end. */