diff --git a/debian/changelog.Debian b/debian/changelog.Debian
index 2815c74b..b753aee9 100644
--- a/debian/changelog.Debian
+++ b/debian/changelog.Debian
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+pve-manager (4.4-8) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * use new libpve-http-server-perl package
+
+  * remove www/bootstrap completely (now in pve-http-server)
+
+  *  HTTPServer.pm: rewrite rest_handler (simplify code)
+
+ -- Proxmox Support Team <support@proxmox.com>  Mon, 16 Jan 2017 18:42:44 +0100
+
 pve-manager (4.4-7) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * disable autoselect of targetstorage
diff --git a/defines.mk b/defines.mk
index 70f5f741..905231e5 100644
--- a/defines.mk
+++ b/defines.mk
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ RELEASE=4.4
 
 VERSION=4.4
 PACKAGE=pve-manager
-PACKAGERELEASE=7
+PACKAGERELEASE=8
 
 BINDIR=${DESTDIR}/usr/bin
 PERLLIBDIR=${DESTDIR}/usr/share/perl5