diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8099dad757848..7210a4aad5a5e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 [![CII Best Practices](https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/741/badge)](https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/741) [![Build Status](https://scan.coverity.com/projects/416/badge.svg)](https://scan.coverity.com/projects/416) [![Discord](https://badgen.net/discord/members/YBey7CR9jf)](https://discord.gg/YBey7CR9jf)
 
 See the [Releases](https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/releases) page for
-downloads. The current git `master` branch is `5.8.7`, next will be `5.8.8`.
+downloads. The current git `master` branch is `5.8.9`, next will be `5.9.0`.
 
 * Since r2-5.6.0 all the patch releases are [abi stable](doc/abi.md)
 * Odd patch versions are used in git builds only, releases use even numbers
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 0b0df143af1cf..9adfb974680e1 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -142,12 +142,12 @@ done
 : ${INSTALL_PROGRAM_STRIP:=${INSTALL} -m 755 -s}
 : ${INSTALL_MAN:=${INSTALL} -m 444}
 : ${INSTALL_LIB:=${INSTALL} -m 755 -c}
- PKGNAME='radare2' ; VERSION='5.8.7' ; VERSION_MAJOR=5; VERSION_MINOR=8; VERSION_PATCH=7; VERSION_NUMBER=50807; CONTACT_MAIL="pancake@nopcode.org" ; CONTACT_NAME="pancake" ; CONTACT="pancake <pancake@nopcode.org>" ;
+ PKGNAME='radare2' ; VERSION='5.8.8' ; VERSION_MAJOR=5; VERSION_MINOR=8; VERSION_PATCH=8; VERSION_NUMBER=50808; CONTACT_MAIL="pancake@nopcode.org" ; CONTACT_NAME="pancake" ; CONTACT="pancake <pancake@nopcode.org>" ;
 }
 
 show_usage() {
 cat <<EOF2
-'configure' configures radare2-5.8.7 to adapt to many kinds of systems.
+'configure' configures radare2-5.8.8 to adapt to many kinds of systems.
 
 Usage: ./configure [OPTION]... [VAR=VALUE]...
 
@@ -257,10 +257,10 @@ ocho() {
 
 show_version() {
 if [ "$QUIET" = 1 ]; then
-	echo "5.8.7"
+	echo "5.8.8"
 	exit 0
 fi
-echo "radare2-5.8.7 configuration script done with acr v2.1.1.
+echo "radare2-5.8.8 configuration script done with acr v2.1.1.
 The 'Free Software Foundation' message is only for autodetection.
 Originally written by pancake <nopcode.org>."
 exit 0
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ case $flag in
 	show_version ; ;;
 -r|--r|--report)
 echo "PKGNAME:     radare2"
-echo "VERSION:     5.8.7"
+echo "VERSION:     5.8.8"
 echo "AUTHOR:      pancake"
 echo "EMAIL:       pancake@nopcode.org"
 echo "DESCRIPTION: The UNIX-like reverse engineering toolkit"
diff --git a/configure.acr b/configure.acr
index 81b85bf51f1af..5998df307b359 100644
--- a/configure.acr
+++ b/configure.acr
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 PKGNAME radare2
-VERSION 5.8.7
+VERSION 5.8.8
 CONTACT pancake ; pancake@nopcode.org
 
 DESCRIPTION The UNIX-like reverse engineering toolkit ;
diff --git a/dist/npm/package.json b/dist/npm/package.json
index c5e15348095f2..f2e80edda68d7 100644
--- a/dist/npm/package.json
+++ b/dist/npm/package.json
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
     "pancake <pancake@nopcode.org>"
   ],
   "name": "radare2-git",
-  "version": "5.8.7",
+  "version": "5.8.8",
   "bugs": {
     "url": "https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/issues"
   },
diff --git a/dist/wapm/r2/wapm.toml b/dist/wapm/r2/wapm.toml
index 83e9c3efcb4aa..3d0b2f6bc556a 100644
--- a/dist/wapm/r2/wapm.toml
+++ b/dist/wapm/r2/wapm.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "pancake/r2"
-version = "5.8.7"
+version = "5.8.8"
 description = "Unix-Like Reverse Engineering Framework"
 readme = "README.md"
 license = "LGPL3"
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index a0d3069e3aa65..654d8df8d2a2d 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-project('radare2', 'c', license : 'LGPL3', meson_version : '>=0.50', version : '5.8.7')
+project('radare2', 'c', license : 'LGPL3', meson_version : '>=0.50', version : '5.8.8')
 
 py3_exe = import('python').find_installation('python3')
 gen_py = '@0@/libr/syscall/d/gen.py'.format(meson.current_source_dir())