diff --git a/CHANGES/v2.4.md b/CHANGES/v2.4.md
index c5a8a9e2f2daf23400ba20b1b3e0505eca41f0d0..1bdd1e56e0c3cff6befc3debfdeee676d6c21d0f 100644
--- a/CHANGES/v2.4.md
+++ b/CHANGES/v2.4.md
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ For users:
   - Module VES: Fixed an off-by-one bug in the output of target distribution averages. The bug only affects the output and does not affect results. The bug also affected the output of coefficients when using a bias cutoff. 
   - Module VES: Made sure that all relevant output files are written out at the final step when shutting down the simulation. This solves issues reported by @PabloPiaggi with restarting when there is a mismatch been the output of files and the number of MD steps. 
 
-## Version 2.4.8
+## Version 2.4.8 (Jul 8, 2020)
 
 \plumednotmaintained
 
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 612f62b94b62efccc331b0a3003e55774676bbeb..a3922eb96a3efa33a6d5a51900c72b4c4efd1c78 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@
 # (this is same as gromacs)
 # Notice that "plumed info --version" will return only 2.X
 # and "plumed info --long-version" will return the full string
-2.4.7
+2.4.8