diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog
index a05ac9502..14839bc21 100644
--- a/Changelog
+++ b/Changelog
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 This file documents the revision history for the Open Monitoring Distribution (Labs Edition)
 
-next:
+2.80     Oct 29 2018
           - OMD:
             - add SELinux support for centos/rhel and fedora
             - add build support for Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic
diff --git a/Makefile.omd b/Makefile.omd
index bf90f334a..271de282d 100644
--- a/Makefile.omd
+++ b/Makefile.omd
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # General settings included by all packages
 
-OMD_VERSION        = 2.70-labs-edition
-OMD_SERIAL         = 44
+OMD_VERSION        = 2.80-labs-edition
+OMD_SERIAL         = 45
 OMD_BASE           = /omd
 OMD_PHYSICAL_BASE  = /opt/omd
 OMD_ROOT           = $(OMD_BASE)/versions/$(OMD_VERSION)
diff --git a/packages/omd/omd b/packages/omd/omd
index feaa6a965..3473c5ead 100755
--- a/packages/omd/omd
+++ b/packages/omd/omd
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ import subprocess
 import tarfile, fnmatch
 from subprocess import *
 
-OMD_VERSION = "2.70-labs-edition"
+OMD_VERSION = "2.80-labs-edition"
 
 # Some global variables
 opt_verbose     = False