diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0023d810caff90529e699fe12c1ee710f158cf2e..1a4fd90654e3a3e4e3096b60a30773ff1033d936 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
 * Support for armhf and aarch64 architectures for Linux OS
 * Support for loading MingW compiled DLLs
 * Allows OpenCL versions that have not been tested (such as 3.0) to be run but issues a warning (previously would fail).
+* Updated the following dependency versions:
+** com.syncleus:syncleus 7 -> 8
+
 
 ## 1.4.2
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 2b717f972daa6ea02e97728b577b2a122479f679..a7d5807cbc89ff9667bfaa85a0e04d04b48b822a 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>com.syncleus</groupId>
         <artifactId>syncleus</artifactId>
-        <version>8-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>8</version>
     </parent>
 
     <groupId>com.aparapi</groupId>