diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index b0aedb9d0..98f11661b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-2.8.5.dev0
-----------
+2.8.5
+-----
 
 - fix #1243: fixed issue where class attributes injected during collection could break pytest.
   PR by Alexei Kozlenok, thanks Ronny Pfannschmidt and Bruno Oliveira for the review and help.
diff --git a/_pytest/__init__.py b/_pytest/__init__.py
index 608589106..3427a3de7 100644
--- a/_pytest/__init__.py
+++ b/_pytest/__init__.py
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 #
-__version__ = '2.8.5.dev0'
+__version__ = '2.8.5'
diff --git a/doc/en/announce/index.rst b/doc/en/announce/index.rst
index 90da44dee..c0c6fbeca 100644
--- a/doc/en/announce/index.rst
+++ b/doc/en/announce/index.rst
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Release announcements
    :maxdepth: 2
 
 
+   release-2.8.5
    release-2.8.4
    release-2.8.3
    release-2.8.2
diff --git a/doc/en/announce/release-2.8.5.rst b/doc/en/announce/release-2.8.5.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7409022a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/en/announce/release-2.8.5.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+pytest-2.8.5
+============
+
+pytest is a mature Python testing tool with more than a 1100 tests
+against itself, passing on many different interpreters and platforms.
+This release is supposed to be drop-in compatible to 2.8.4.
+
+See below for the changes and see docs at:
+
+    http://pytest.org
+
+As usual, you can upgrade from pypi via::
+
+    pip install -U pytest
+
+Thanks to all who contributed to this release, among them:
+
+  Alex Gaynor
+  aselus-hub
+  Bruno Oliveira
+  Ronny Pfannschmidt
+
+
+Happy testing,
+The py.test Development Team
+
+
+2.8.5 (compared to 2.8.4)
+-------------------------
+
+- fix #1243: fixed issue where class attributes injected during collection could break pytest.
+  PR by Alexei Kozlenok, thanks Ronny Pfannschmidt and Bruno Oliveira for the review and help.
+
+- fix #1074: precompute junitxml chunks instead of storing the whole tree in objects
+  Thanks Bruno Oliveira for the report and Ronny Pfannschmidt for the PR
+
+- fix #1238: fix ``pytest.deprecated_call()`` receiving multiple arguments
+  (Regression introduced in 2.8.4). Thanks Alex Gaynor for the report and
+  Bruno Oliveira for the PR.