diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
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--- a/CMakeLists.txt
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@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ if(STANDALONE AND NOT DEFINED CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE AND DEFINED ENV{CMAKE_TOOLCHA
   set(CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE $ENV{CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE})
 endif()
 
-project(Allen VERSION 6.7
+project(Allen VERSION 6.8
         LANGUAGES C CXX)
 
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diff --git a/ReleaseNotes/v6r8.md b/ReleaseNotes/v6r8.md
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+2025-07-13 Allen v6r8
+===
+
+This version uses
+Rec [v38r8](../../../../Rec/-/tags/v38r8),
+Lbcom [v37r8](../../../../Lbcom/-/tags/v37r8),
+LHCb [v57r8](../../../../LHCb/-/tags/v57r8),
+Gaudi [v39r4](../../../../Gaudi/-/tags/v39r4),
+Detector [v3r3p2](../../../../Detector/-/tags/v3r3p2) and
+LCG [106c](http://lcginfo.cern.ch/release/106c/) with ROOT 6.32.10.
+
+This version is released on the `2025-patches` branch.
+Built relative to Allen [v6r7](/../../tags/v6r7), with the following changes:
+
+### New features ~"new feature"
+
+
+
+### Fixes ~"bug fix" ~workaround
+
+- Routing typo for PbPb and lightion, !2084 (@sbelin)
+- Using general similarity_5_5 instead of specialized ones, !1941 (@alperezc)
+
+
+### Enhancements ~enhancement
+
+
+
+### Code cleanups and changes to tests ~modernisation ~cleanup ~testing
+
+
+
+### Documentation ~Documentation
+
+
+### Other
+
+- ~Configuration | Increase minimum z for BGI lines (from -2000 to -3000) to try seeing second OO satellite, !2092 (@samarian)
+- ~Configuration | LightIon 2025: Setting Hlt1VeloMicroBias prescaler to 1.0, !2077 (@msaur)
+- ~Configuration ~Luminosity | Lumi sequence for OO and NeNe, !2081 (@msaur)
+- ~Configuration ~Luminosity | Updated hlt1_pp_vdm_bgi to use default 2025 settings, !2073 (@msaur)
+- Update References for: Allen!2043 based on lhcb-2025-patches-mr/587, !2104 (@lhcbsoft)
+- Update References for: LHCb!5208 based on lhcb-2025-patches-mr/588, !2101 (@lhcbsoft)
+- Test allen throughput on 2025 data, !2086 (@samarian)
+- Remove pt cut to SV reconstruction of dileptons for DiMuonSoft line, !2043 (@sargueda)
+- Add masked VELO modules to light ion HLT1 sequences, !2075 (@lcalefic)