diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 3c910e2c2f6fabcb2905095ec6e13f0c21972261..6962295af4e0e6e080dc41b027cf22a732ab6bd4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -16,6 +16,12 @@ Please See the [releases tab](https://github.com/openedx/xblock-lti-consumer/rel
 Unreleased
 ~~~~~~~~~~
 
+8.0.0 - 2023-01-31
+------------------
+* Update to work with bleachk>=6.0.0 and make that an explicit requirement in
+  ``install_requires`` since the changes are incompatible with the older
+  versions of bleach.
+
 7.3.0 - 2023-01-30
 ------------------
 * Rename edx-platform import of ``get_module_for_descriptor_internal``.
diff --git a/lti_consumer/__init__.py b/lti_consumer/__init__.py
index 0c989b3093078a6fe66296e89964ec6528099424..2ac31ca97338b4f41a3816e1fd4974378d1492c8 100644
--- a/lti_consumer/__init__.py
+++ b/lti_consumer/__init__.py
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ Runtime will load the XBlock class from here.
 from .apps import LTIConsumerApp
 from .lti_xblock import LtiConsumerXBlock
 
-__version__ = '7.3.0'
+__version__ = '8.0.0'
diff --git a/requirements/base.in b/requirements/base.in
index f946ff4b31361dc3c6a7209b26e7b51c1e0841ed..0be363005162bd7b840d48b14fb4659d14e3e4e3 100644
--- a/requirements/base.in
+++ b/requirements/base.in
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 attrs
 lxml
-bleach
+bleach>=6.0.0
 django
 oauthlib
 mako