diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c9f175902..8be145578 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+## version 1.28.0 - 2018/08/25
+
 * Narratives -- see [nextstrain.org/docs/visualisation/narratives](https://nextstrain.org/docs/visualisation/narratives) for documentation.
 * Time slicing & non-highlighted branches are now displayed in a cleaner fashion - [PR 638](https://github.com/nextstrain/auspice/pull/638)
 * Selected clades (i.e. the tree has been zoomed) are now part of URL state - [PR 633](https://github.com/nextstrain/auspice/pull/633)
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index c047c7bea..4e80336f0 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "auspice",
-  "version": "1.27.1",
+  "version": "1.28.0",
   "description": "Web app for visualizing pathogen evolution",
   "author": "James Hadfield, Trevor Bedford and Richard Neher",
   "license": "AGPL",
diff --git a/src/version.js b/src/version.js
index d9c204bcc..960378f08 100644
--- a/src/version.js
+++ b/src/version.js
@@ -1 +1 @@
-export const version = "1.27.1";
+export const version = "1.28.0";