diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index 20f7697652..dbbf6949d7 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Changes
 =======
 
-dev
----
+1.25.8 (2020-01-20)
+-------------------
 
 * Drop support for EOL Python 3.4 (Pull #1774)
 
diff --git a/src/urllib3/__init__.py b/src/urllib3/__init__.py
index 96474d3680..9bd8323f91 100644
--- a/src/urllib3/__init__.py
+++ b/src/urllib3/__init__.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 
 __author__ = "Andrey Petrov (andrey.petrov@shazow.net)"
 __license__ = "MIT"
-__version__ = "1.25.7"
+__version__ = "1.25.8"
 
 __all__ = (
     "HTTPConnectionPool",