diff --git a/.bumpversion.cfg b/.bumpversion.cfg
index 23e0d0d..eaa2a74 100644
--- a/.bumpversion.cfg
+++ b/.bumpversion.cfg
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 1.0.0a7
+current_version = 1.0.0a8
 commit = True
 tag = True
 parse = (?P<major>\d+)\.(?P<minor>\d+)\.(?P<patch>\d+)((?P<release>[a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+))?
diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index 696d601..346bf4d 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ author = "Jensun Ravichandran"
 
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags
 #
-release = "1.0.0-a7"
+release = "1.0.0-a8"
 
 # -- General configuration ---------------------------------------------------
 
diff --git a/prototorch/models/__init__.py b/prototorch/models/__init__.py
index 7fe811c..1bd30cf 100644
--- a/prototorch/models/__init__.py
+++ b/prototorch/models/__init__.py
@@ -22,4 +22,4 @@ __all__ = [
     "GLVQLossMixin",
 ]
 
-__version__ = "1.0.0-a7"
+__version__ = "1.0.0-a8"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 231be7e..675e9a7 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ ALL = CLI + DEV + DOCS + EXAMPLES + TESTS
 
 setup(
     name=safe_name("prototorch_" + PLUGIN_NAME),
-    version="1.0.0-a7",
+    version="1.0.0-a8",
     description="Pre-packaged prototype-based "
     "machine learning models using ProtoTorch and PyTorch-Lightning.",
     long_description=long_description,