diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
index bca6ea7..74d3112 100644
--- a/AGENTS.md
+++ b/AGENTS.md
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Tools that support `@`-imports (Claude Code) auto-include all three files via th
 
 `CLAUDE.md` is a symlink to this file — there is exactly one source of truth. Edit `AGENTS.md`.
 
-**Version surveyed:** 0.7.2
+**Version surveyed:** 0.8.0
 **Workspace crates:** `omnigraph-compiler`, `omnigraph` (engine), `omnigraph-policy`, `omnigraph-api-types` (shared HTTP wire DTOs), `omnigraph-cluster`, `omnigraph-cli`, `omnigraph-server`
 **Storage substrate:** Lance 7.x (columnar, versioned, branchable)
 **License:** MIT
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 01170ec..d180b7c 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -4851,7 +4851,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "omnigraph-api-types"
-version = "0.7.2"
+version = "0.8.0"
 dependencies = [
  "omnigraph-compiler",
  "omnigraph-engine",
@@ -4862,7 +4862,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "omnigraph-cli"
-version = "0.7.2"
+version = "0.8.0"
 dependencies = [
  "assert_cmd",
  "clap",
@@ -4886,7 +4886,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "omnigraph-cluster"
-version = "0.7.2"
+version = "0.8.0"
 dependencies = [
  "fail",
  "omnigraph-compiler",
@@ -4905,7 +4905,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "omnigraph-compiler"
-version = "0.7.2"
+version = "0.8.0"
 dependencies = [
  "ahash",
  "arrow-array",
@@ -4924,7 +4924,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "omnigraph-engine"
-version = "0.7.2"
+version = "0.8.0"
 dependencies = [
  "arc-swap",
  "arrow-array",
@@ -4969,7 +4969,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "omnigraph-policy"
-version = "0.7.2"
+version = "0.8.0"
 dependencies = [
  "cedar-policy",
  "clap",
@@ -4982,7 +4982,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "omnigraph-server"
-version = "0.7.2"
+version = "0.8.0"
 dependencies = [
  "arc-swap",
  "async-trait",
diff --git a/crates/omnigraph-api-types/Cargo.toml b/crates/omnigraph-api-types/Cargo.toml
index 96677d1..7157524 100644
--- a/crates/omnigraph-api-types/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/omnigraph-api-types/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "omnigraph-api-types"
-version = "0.7.2"
+version = "0.8.0"
 edition = "2024"
 description = "Shared HTTP wire DTOs for Omnigraph — request/response types and engine-result → DTO mappings used by both omnigraph-server and omnigraph-cli (RFC-009). Plain serde/utoipa types; no transport or server internals."
 license = "MIT"
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ homepage = "https://github.com/ModernRelay/omnigraph"
 documentation = "https://docs.rs/omnigraph-api-types"
 
 [dependencies]
-omnigraph = { package = "omnigraph-engine", path = "../omnigraph", version = "0.7.2" }
-omnigraph-compiler = { path = "../omnigraph-compiler", version = "0.7.2" }
+omnigraph = { package = "omnigraph-engine", path = "../omnigraph", version = "0.8.0" }
+omnigraph-compiler = { path = "../omnigraph-compiler", version = "0.8.0" }
 serde = { workspace = true }
 serde_json = { workspace = true }
 utoipa = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/crates/omnigraph-cli/Cargo.toml b/crates/omnigraph-cli/Cargo.toml
index df4ac8d..afed02e 100644
--- a/crates/omnigraph-cli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/omnigraph-cli/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "omnigraph-cli"
-version = "0.7.2"
+version = "0.8.0"
 edition = "2024"
 description = "CLI for the Omnigraph graph database."
 license = "MIT"
@@ -13,12 +13,12 @@ name = "omnigraph"
 path = "src/main.rs"
 
 [dependencies]
-omnigraph = { package = "omnigraph-engine", path = "../omnigraph", version = "0.7.2" }
-omnigraph-compiler = { path = "../omnigraph-compiler", version = "0.7.2" }
-omnigraph-api-types = { path = "../omnigraph-api-types", version = "0.7.2" }
-omnigraph-cluster = { path = "../omnigraph-cluster", version = "0.7.2" }
-omnigraph-policy = { path = "../omnigraph-policy", version = "0.7.2" }
-omnigraph-server = { path = "../omnigraph-server", version = "0.7.2" }
+omnigraph = { package = "omnigraph-engine", path = "../omnigraph", version = "0.8.0" }
+omnigraph-compiler = { path = "../omnigraph-compiler", version = "0.8.0" }
+omnigraph-api-types = { path = "../omnigraph-api-types", version = "0.8.0" }
+omnigraph-cluster = { path = "../omnigraph-cluster", version = "0.8.0" }
+omnigraph-policy = { path = "../omnigraph-policy", version = "0.8.0" }
+omnigraph-server = { path = "../omnigraph-server", version = "0.8.0" }
 clap = { workspace = true }
 color-eyre = { workspace = true }
 serde = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/crates/omnigraph-cluster/Cargo.toml b/crates/omnigraph-cluster/Cargo.toml
index ad3cf24..2ad384e 100644
--- a/crates/omnigraph-cluster/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/omnigraph-cluster/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "omnigraph-cluster"
-version = "0.7.2"
+version = "0.8.0"
 edition = "2024"
 description = "Cluster configuration validation, planning, and config-only apply for Omnigraph."
 license = "MIT"
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ documentation = "https://docs.rs/omnigraph-cluster"
 failpoints = ["dep:fail", "fail/failpoints", "omnigraph/failpoints"]
 
 [dependencies]
-omnigraph-compiler = { path = "../omnigraph-compiler", version = "0.7.2" }
-omnigraph = { package = "omnigraph-engine", path = "../omnigraph", version = "0.7.2" }
+omnigraph-compiler = { path = "../omnigraph-compiler", version = "0.8.0" }
+omnigraph = { package = "omnigraph-engine", path = "../omnigraph", version = "0.8.0" }
 fail = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 serde = { workspace = true }
 serde_json = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/crates/omnigraph-compiler/Cargo.toml b/crates/omnigraph-compiler/Cargo.toml
index f885a9f..26fce16 100644
--- a/crates/omnigraph-compiler/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/omnigraph-compiler/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "omnigraph-compiler"
-version = "0.7.2"
+version = "0.8.0"
 edition = "2024"
 description = "Schema/query compiler for Omnigraph. Zero Lance dependency."
 license = "MIT"
diff --git a/crates/omnigraph-policy/Cargo.toml b/crates/omnigraph-policy/Cargo.toml
index 136df84..93a96bc 100644
--- a/crates/omnigraph-policy/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/omnigraph-policy/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "omnigraph-policy"
-version = "0.7.2"
+version = "0.8.0"
 edition = "2024"
 description = "Policy / authorization layer for Omnigraph — Cedar-backed PolicyEngine, PolicyChecker trait, ResourceScope enum."
 license = "MIT"
diff --git a/crates/omnigraph-server/Cargo.toml b/crates/omnigraph-server/Cargo.toml
index fe349e9..d768d6b 100644
--- a/crates/omnigraph-server/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/omnigraph-server/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "omnigraph-server"
-version = "0.7.2"
+version = "0.8.0"
 edition = "2024"
 description = "HTTP server for the Omnigraph graph database."
 license = "MIT"
@@ -19,11 +19,11 @@ default = []
 aws = ["dep:aws-config", "dep:aws-sdk-secretsmanager"]
 
 [dependencies]
-omnigraph = { package = "omnigraph-engine", path = "../omnigraph", version = "0.7.2" }
-omnigraph-compiler = { path = "../omnigraph-compiler", version = "0.7.2" }
-omnigraph-policy = { path = "../omnigraph-policy", version = "0.7.2" }
-omnigraph-api-types = { path = "../omnigraph-api-types", version = "0.7.2" }
-omnigraph-cluster = { path = "../omnigraph-cluster", version = "0.7.2" }
+omnigraph = { package = "omnigraph-engine", path = "../omnigraph", version = "0.8.0" }
+omnigraph-compiler = { path = "../omnigraph-compiler", version = "0.8.0" }
+omnigraph-policy = { path = "../omnigraph-policy", version = "0.8.0" }
+omnigraph-api-types = { path = "../omnigraph-api-types", version = "0.8.0" }
+omnigraph-cluster = { path = "../omnigraph-cluster", version = "0.8.0" }
 axum = { workspace = true }
 clap = { workspace = true }
 color-eyre = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/crates/omnigraph/Cargo.toml b/crates/omnigraph/Cargo.toml
index cc750e1..638eac9 100644
--- a/crates/omnigraph/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/omnigraph/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "omnigraph-engine"
-version = "0.7.2"
+version = "0.8.0"
 edition = "2024"
 description = "Runtime engine for the Omnigraph graph database."
 license = "MIT"
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ default = []
 failpoints = ["dep:fail", "fail/failpoints"]
 
 [dependencies]
-omnigraph-compiler = { path = "../omnigraph-compiler", version = "0.7.2" }
-omnigraph-policy = { path = "../omnigraph-policy", version = "0.7.2" }
+omnigraph-compiler = { path = "../omnigraph-compiler", version = "0.8.0" }
+omnigraph-policy = { path = "../omnigraph-policy", version = "0.8.0" }
 lance = { workspace = true }
 lance-core = { workspace = true }
 lance-datafusion = { workspace = true }
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ chrono = { workspace = true }
 arc-swap = { workspace = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
-omnigraph-compiler = { path = "../omnigraph-compiler", version = "0.7.2" }
+omnigraph-compiler = { path = "../omnigraph-compiler", version = "0.8.0" }
 tokio = { workspace = true }
 lance-namespace-impls = { workspace = true }
 # test-util gates IoStats.requests + assert_io_eq! (failure diagnostics only); dev-dep,
diff --git a/docs/releases/v0.8.0.md b/docs/releases/v0.8.0.md
index 5e0796f..94e9b18 100644
--- a/docs/releases/v0.8.0.md
+++ b/docs/releases/v0.8.0.md
@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
-# Omnigraph v0.8.0 (in progress)
-
-> Draft release notes for the next minor. The version line in `AGENTS.md` and the
-> crate manifests are bumped when this release is cut — these notes track the
-> user-visible delta as the work lands.
+# Omnigraph v0.8.0
 
 This release moves the graph commit lineage into `__manifest` (RFC-013 Phase 7),
 retires the two legacy commit-graph datasets, and surfaces the storage-format
diff --git a/openapi.json b/openapi.json
index ba73e3e..277bf65 100644
--- a/openapi.json
+++ b/openapi.json
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
       "name": "MIT",
       "identifier": "MIT"
     },
-    "version": "0.7.2"
+    "version": "0.8.0"
   },
   "paths": {
     "/graphs": {