diff --git a/asdf.asd b/asdf.asd
index aef190b35c2057c40a4839b866111c916019c640..175731a692dcd9976fd459c7746d56696c078b99 100644
--- a/asdf.asd
+++ b/asdf.asd
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
   :licence "MIT"
   :description "Another System Definition Facility"
   :long-description "ASDF builds Common Lisp software organized into defined systems."
-  :version "2.23.7" ;; to be automatically updated by bin/bump-revision
+  :version "2.23.8" ;; to be automatically updated by bin/bump-revision
   :depends-on ()
   :components
   ((:file "asdf")
diff --git a/asdf.lisp b/asdf.lisp
index 0b4bff7a24a252d653169928fcc242fc6d06673c..d228876d8728d9e8b7cb9b7840a8681b4f71449b 100644
--- a/asdf.lisp
+++ b/asdf.lisp
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ;;; -*- mode: Common-Lisp; Base: 10 ; Syntax: ANSI-Common-Lisp ; coding: utf-8 -*-
-;;; This is ASDF 2.23.7: Another System Definition Facility.
+;;; This is ASDF 2.23.8: Another System Definition Facility.
 ;;;
 ;;; Feedback, bug reports, and patches are all welcome:
 ;;; please mail to <asdf-devel@common-lisp.net>.
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@
          ;; "2.345.6" would be a development version in the official upstream
          ;; "2.345.0.7" would be your seventh local modification of official release 2.345
          ;; "2.345.6.7" would be your seventh local modification of development version 2.345.6
-         (asdf-version "2.23.7")
+         (asdf-version "2.23.8")
          (existing-asdf (find-class 'component nil))
          (existing-version *asdf-version*)
          (already-there (equal asdf-version existing-version)))