From e40cbec0172994f1c249eab392abb5b1725c1ae9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Will Handley <wh260@cam.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2024 17:25:34 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] bump version to 2.8.8

---
 README.rst             | 2 +-
 anesthetic/_version.py | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 0f05ad0f..3b3235ee 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 anesthetic: nested sampling post-processing
 ===========================================
 :Authors: Will Handley and Lukas Hergt
-:Version: 2.8.7
+:Version: 2.8.8
 :Homepage: https://github.com/handley-lab/anesthetic
 :Documentation: http://anesthetic.readthedocs.io/
 
diff --git a/anesthetic/_version.py b/anesthetic/_version.py
index af815f23..5d4adb16 100644
--- a/anesthetic/_version.py
+++ b/anesthetic/_version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = '2.8.7'
+__version__ = '2.8.8'