diff --git a/accession/__init__.py b/accession/__init__.py
index 34abcbc8..4edfb009 100644
--- a/accession/__init__.py
+++ b/accession/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 __title__ = "accession"
-__version__ = "2.7.0"
+__version__ = "2.8.0"
 __description__ = "Tool to submit genomics pipeline outputs to the ENCODE Portal"
 __url__ = "https://github.com/ENCODE-DCC/accession"
 __uri__ = __url__