diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index c1fada4c..c094657d 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -8,6 +8,13 @@
 Changes
 =======
 
+Version v6.8.0 (released 2024-12-09)
+
+- names: extract affiliation identifiers from employments
+- names: optimize memory usage on ORCID sync
+- subjects: improve search with CompositeSuggestQueryParser
+- subjects: added datastream for bodc
+
 Version v6.7.0 (released 2024-11-27)
 
 - contrib: improve search accuracy for names, funders, affiliations
diff --git a/invenio_vocabularies/__init__.py b/invenio_vocabularies/__init__.py
index 7977ff82..48772f3e 100644
--- a/invenio_vocabularies/__init__.py
+++ b/invenio_vocabularies/__init__.py
@@ -10,6 +10,6 @@
 
 from .ext import InvenioVocabularies
 
-__version__ = "6.7.0"
+__version__ = "6.8.0"
 
 __all__ = ("__version__", "InvenioVocabularies")