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diff --git a/doc/src/guide/book.asciidoc b/doc/src/guide/book.asciidoc
index 76557a6..0b01b22 100644
--- a/doc/src/guide/book.asciidoc
+++ b/doc/src/guide/book.asciidoc
@@ -75,6 +75,8 @@ include::performance.asciidoc[Performance]
= Additional information
+include::migrating_from_2.7.asciidoc[Migrating from Cowboy 2.7 to 2.8]
+
include::migrating_from_2.6.asciidoc[Migrating from Cowboy 2.6 to 2.7]
include::migrating_from_2.5.asciidoc[Migrating from Cowboy 2.5 to 2.6]
diff --git a/doc/src/guide/getting_started.asciidoc b/doc/src/guide/getting_started.asciidoc
index 574a050..7bf97e3 100644
--- a/doc/src/guide/getting_started.asciidoc
+++ b/doc/src/guide/getting_started.asciidoc
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ fetch and compile Cowboy:
PROJECT = hello_erlang
DEPS = cowboy
-dep_cowboy_commit = 2.7.0
+dep_cowboy_commit = 2.8.0
DEP_PLUGINS = cowboy
diff --git a/doc/src/guide/migrating_from_2.7.asciidoc b/doc/src/guide/migrating_from_2.7.asciidoc
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+[appendix]
+== Migrating from Cowboy 2.7 to 2.8
+
+Cowboy 2.8 contains many optimizations for all
+protocols. HTTP/1.1 has received the largest
+improvements and Cowboy will now be able to
+handle noticeably more requests. Thanks to
+the folks at Stressgrid for helping identify that
+the performance was lower than it should have been
+and for benchmarking my many changes and experiments.
+
+Cowboy 2.8 also contains a small number of tweaks
+and bug fixes. Cowboy 2.8 is the first Cowboy release,
+ever, to be consistently green on all tested platforms.
+This is mostly due to the reworking of some test cases,
+but a few bugs were discovered and fixed in the process.
+
+Cowboy 2.8 requires Erlang/OTP 22.0 or greater. It may
+also work out of the box with Erlang/OTP 21.3 but this
+was not tested and is not supported.
+
+=== Features added
+
+* Cowboy will now use `active,N` instead of `active,once`
+ to receive data from the socket. This greatly improves
+ the performance and allows Cowboy to process more
+ requests, especially for HTTP/1.1. The `active_n`
+ protocol option can be configured to change the
+ `active,N` value. The default is 100 for all protocols.
+
+* Add a `linger_timeout` option for HTTP/2. The default
+ is 1000, or one second. This helps ensure that the
+ final GOAWAY frame will be properly received by clients.
+
+* The function `cowboy_req:parse_header/2,3` will now
+ parse the headers `access-control-request-headers`,
+ `access-control-request-method`, `content-encoding`,
+ `content-language`, `max-forwards`, `origin`,
+ `proxy-authorization` and `trailer`.
+
+* A Performance chapter has been added to the guide.
+ More content will be added in future releases.
+
+* Update Cowlib to 2.9.1.
+
+=== Experimental features added
+
+* A `protocols` protocol option allows configuring which
+ protocol will be used for clear listeners. Setting it
+ to `[http2]` will disable HTTP/1.1 entirely. This feature
+ will be extended in a future release.
+
+=== Features modified
+
+* The default value for HTTP/1.1's `max_keepalive` option
+ has been increased. It now allows 1000 requests before
+ gracefully closing the connection.
+
+* The default value for HTTP/2's `max_received_frame_rate`
+ option has been increased. It now allows 10000 frames every
+ 10 seconds.
+
+* Cowboy will now accept whitespace in cookie names. This
+ is in line with the recommended parsing algorithm for the
+ upcoming cookie RFC update, and corresponds to what browsers
+ are doing.
+
+=== Bugs fixed
+
+* The number of Transport:send/2 calls has been optimized
+ for HTTP/2. Reducing the number of calls has a noticeable
+ impact on the number of requests that can be processed.
+
+* Trying to use `cowboy_req:reply/4` with a status code of
+ 204 or 304 and a non-empty response body will now result
+ in a crash. Using `cowboy_req:stream_reply/2,3` with 204
+ or 304 and then attempting to send a body will also result
+ in a crash. These status codes disallow response bodies
+ and trying to send one will break HTTP/1.1 framing.
+
+* A crash has been fixed related to HTTP/1.1 pipelining.
+ The bug was most likely introduced in Cowboy 2.6 when
+ flow control was added for HTTP/1.1 request bodies.
+
+* The HTTP/1.1 protocol code could get stuck because of flow
+ control. This has been corrected.
+
+* A crash has been fixed for HTTP/1.1. It occurred when
+ a flow control update was requested (such as reading
+ the request body) after the body was fully read.
+
+* The timeout was incorrectly reset sometimes when a stream
+ (a pair of request/response) terminated. This has been
+ corrected.
+
+* Handling of hibernation for Websocket has been improved.
+ Websocket over HTTP/2 now supports hibernating. Stray
+ messages no longer cancel hibernation.
+
+* The `cowboy_compress_h` stream handler will now ignore
+ malformed accept-encoding headers instead of crashing.
+
+* The manual pages for `cowboy:start_clear(3)` and
+ `cowboy:start_tls(3)` now mentions that some protocol
+ options may be documented in the releevant stream
+ handler.
+
+* The manual page for `cowboy_req:parse_header(3)` was
+ corrected. When an unsupported header is given the
+ function crashes, it does not return an `undefined` tuple.
+
+* The routing algorithm description in the user guide has
+ been improved.
+
+* The test suites are now consistently green on all tested
+ platforms. Most of the test failures were caused by flaky
+ tests. Avoiding the use of timeouts fixed most of them.
+ A small number of tests had to be reworked.