diff --git a/DESCRIPTION.rst b/DESCRIPTION.rst
index 8ffc6513f..9cb12a962 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION.rst
+++ b/DESCRIPTION.rst
@@ -9,6 +9,11 @@ Source code is also available at: https://github.com/snowflakedb/snowflake-conne
 Release Notes
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
+- v2.2.8(June 22,2020)
+
+    - Switched docstring style to Google from Epydoc and added automated tests to enforce the standard.
+    - Fixed a memory leak in DIctCursor's Arrow format code.
+
 - v2.2.7(June 1,2020)
 
     - Support azure-storage-blob v12 as well as v2 (for Python 3.5.0-3.5.1) by Python Connector
diff --git a/version.py b/version.py
index 69732d632..cda29fda2 100644
--- a/version.py
+++ b/version.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Update this for the versions
 # Don't change the forth version number from None
-VERSION = (2, 2, 7, None)
+VERSION = (2, 2, 8, None)