diff --git a/releasenotes.txt b/releasenotes.txt
index e8ea63db4..acf04c9f5 100644
--- a/releasenotes.txt
+++ b/releasenotes.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
-release notes for cppcheck-2.7
+release notes for cppcheck-2.8
 
-Add support for container views. The `view` attribute has been added to the `<container>` library tag to specify the class is a view. The lifetime analysis has been updated to use this new attribute to find dangling lifetime containers.