diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 529b133f..f59c11ca 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  ".": "8.1.0"
+  ".": "8.2.0"
 }
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b287edc3..db7f74b7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,13 @@
 
 All notable changes to the LaunchDarkly Ruby SDK will be documented in this file. This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org).
 
+## [8.2.0](https://github.com/launchdarkly/ruby-server-sdk/compare/8.1.0...8.2.0) (2024-02-20)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* Enable gzip compression on polling requests ([#249](https://github.com/launchdarkly/ruby-server-sdk/issues/249)) ([abffe47](https://github.com/launchdarkly/ruby-server-sdk/commit/abffe476093a8203f262be337b0bc3a4ec6ba982))
+
 ## [8.1.0](https://github.com/launchdarkly/ruby-server-sdk/compare/8.0.0...8.1.0) (2024-01-03)
 
 
diff --git a/lib/ldclient-rb/version.rb b/lib/ldclient-rb/version.rb
index 082337f6..2676e2fa 100644
--- a/lib/ldclient-rb/version.rb
+++ b/lib/ldclient-rb/version.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 module LaunchDarkly
-  VERSION = "8.1.0" # x-release-please-version
+  VERSION = "8.2.0" # x-release-please-version
 end