diff --git a/.bumpversion.cfg b/.bumpversion.cfg
index 45f436c4..0f90f5da 100644
--- a/.bumpversion.cfg
+++ b/.bumpversion.cfg
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 0.7.0
+current_version = 0.8.0
 commit = True
 tag = True
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0af59e75..5fccd1f9 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# gplugins 0.7.0
+# gplugins 0.8.0
 
 [![docs](https://github.com/gdsfactory/gplugins/actions/workflows/pages.yml/badge.svg)](https://gdsfactory.github.io/gplugins/)
 [![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/gplugins)](https://pypi.org/project/gplugins/)
diff --git a/gplugins/__init__.py b/gplugins/__init__.py
index 6c20adad..d6d03272 100644
--- a/gplugins/__init__.py
+++ b/gplugins/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 """gplugins - gdsfactory plugins"""
 
-__version__ = "0.7.0"
+__version__ = "0.8.0"
 
 from gplugins.common.utils import plot, port_symmetries
 from gplugins.common.utils.get_effective_indices import get_effective_indices
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 0c070d40..9dea2e12 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ license = {file = "LICENSE"}
 name = "gplugins"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"
-version = "0.7.0"
+version = "0.8.0"
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 dagster = ["dagster", "dagit"]
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ docs = [
   "pyvista[jupyter]<=0.40"
 ]
 femwell = [
-  "femwell>=0.1.6,<0.7.0",
+  "femwell>=0.1.6,<0.8.0",
   "meshwell>=1.0.0,<1.1.0"
 ]
 gmsh = [