diff --git a/Barotrauma/BarotraumaClient/Properties/AssemblyInfo.cs b/Barotrauma/BarotraumaClient/Properties/AssemblyInfo.cs
index bd0597493..49e4b1029 100644
--- a/Barotrauma/BarotraumaClient/Properties/AssemblyInfo.cs
+++ b/Barotrauma/BarotraumaClient/Properties/AssemblyInfo.cs
@@ -31,5 +31,5 @@ using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
 // You can specify all the values or you can default the Build and Revision Numbers 
 // by using the '*' as shown below:
 // [assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.*")]
-[assembly: AssemblyVersion("0.8.9.7")]
-[assembly: AssemblyFileVersion("0.8.9.7")]
+[assembly: AssemblyVersion("0.8.9.8")]
+[assembly: AssemblyFileVersion("0.8.9.8")]
diff --git a/Barotrauma/BarotraumaServer/Properties/AssemblyInfo.cs b/Barotrauma/BarotraumaServer/Properties/AssemblyInfo.cs
index 1a54bc6aa..8eae69a5b 100644
--- a/Barotrauma/BarotraumaServer/Properties/AssemblyInfo.cs
+++ b/Barotrauma/BarotraumaServer/Properties/AssemblyInfo.cs
@@ -31,5 +31,5 @@ using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
 // You can specify all the values or you can default the Build and Revision Numbers 
 // by using the '*' as shown below:
 // [assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.*")]
-[assembly: AssemblyVersion("0.8.9.7")]
-[assembly: AssemblyFileVersion("0.8.9.7")]
+[assembly: AssemblyVersion("0.8.9.8")]
+[assembly: AssemblyFileVersion("0.8.9.8")]
diff --git a/Barotrauma/BarotraumaShared/changelog.txt b/Barotrauma/BarotraumaShared/changelog.txt
index 421c3d7df..54b1c3eac 100644
--- a/Barotrauma/BarotraumaShared/changelog.txt
+++ b/Barotrauma/BarotraumaShared/changelog.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,109 @@
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+v0.8.9.8
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Additions and changes:
+- Improved tutorial - better videos, instructional texts, objective list that suggest what you should do 
+next, option to rewatch the videos and re-read the instructions.
+- Overhauled charybdis (still a work in progress though).
+- Automatically grab adjacent ladders when the top/bottom of the current ladder is reached. Makes moving 
+through docking ports a little less confusing. 
+- Option to configure when afflictions become visible with the health scanner by adding 
+a "ShowInHealthScannerThreshold" attribute to the affliction.
+- Added labels next to periscopes in Humpback and Dugong.
+- Modified Humpback's bilge to make it easier for AI characters to fix.
+- Enemies can now navigate out from the sub when escaping.
+- Bunch of tweaks to monster AIs (targeting priorities, attack cooldowns, etc).
+- Made InventoryIconColor and ContainerColor properties saveable.
+- Removed descriptive name from alien artifacts (so be extra careful when bringing them on board).
+- Allow panning the campaign map with WASD.
+- Allow editing selected wires in wiring mode (so it's possible to, for example, modify the colors of
+the wires without having to disconnect them).
+- Decreased structure damage done by frag grenades and made them disappear after they've exploded.
+- Batteries output charge values as integers.
+- Made damaged junction boxes less sensitive to overvoltage. Nearly broken junction boxes were barely able 
+to handle any overvoltage, leading to chain reaction where one junction box breaking causes the grid to be 
+overloaded, and the rest of the boxes start taking damage at an increasing speed.
+- Reactors don't cool down when underwater anymore.
+- Removed minimum conditions from battery deconstruction output (= deconstructing an empty battery still 
+gives the materials used to craft the battery).
+- Made a bunch of ItemContainer UI panels larger.
+- Items can be dragged and dropped directly from the inventory into containers without having to select 
+the container first.
+- Plants can be picked up from the environment without any tools.
+- Added more help texts to highlighted items ("[E] Interact", "[E] Climb"...)
+
+Multiplayer fixes:
+- Changes to event syncing logic to prevent cases where clients fall behind the server and get kicked out
+due to the server not being able to send out network events to the clients fast enough.
+- Networking optimizations that prevent level objects and continuously deteriorating items from creating
+excessive amounts of network events.
+- Fixed windows clients being unable to start a campaign in servers running on Linux.
+- Fixed clients being unable to start a campaign using a submarine that's not in the default Submarine
+folder at the server's side.
+- Fixed loading submarine files and campaign saves occasionally failing when running multiple instances
+of the game from the same install location (for example, a dedicated server executable and a client 
+executable).
+- Don't transfer files through the network when sending them to the owner of the server (i.e. a client 
+hosting directly from the main executable).
+- Fixed fires and water occasionally getting out of sync between a client using the fire/water console
+commands and the server.
+- Fixed clients disconnecting with an "unknown object header" error if they fail to read a network event
+(when they should instead report the error to the server and wait for a message that contains a more
+descriptive error).
+- Campaign fix: clear missions from locations that change their type, and all adjacent locations. Not 
+clearing them caused missions to still be available when they logically shouldn't be (e.g. a transport 
+mission from an uninhabited location to another) and syncing issues in multiplayer.
+- Disable campaign start button if a round is already running when joining.
+- Fixed clients being unable to end campaign rounds at all if the sub isn't at the start/end outpost 
+(regardless if they have the permission to end the round or not).
+- Fixed campaign characters still being displayed in the server lobby after the game mode has been 
+changed to something else.
+- Fixed items in the characters inventory always starting at 100% condition client-side even if they had 
+deteriorated during the previous round.
+- Fixed LevelResource (mineral, plant, etc) deattach timers not being synced with clients.
+- AI characters can take out excess fuel rods from the reactor when needed.
+- Item interfaces and the health interface can be closed with Esc.
+
+Bugfixes:
+- Fixed almost all items using default repair duration values (10 seconds with high skills, 100 seconds
+with low skills) instead of the ones configured in the item XMLs.
+- Nuclear shells and nuclear depth charges disappear after they've exploded. 
+- Fixed "trying to add a dead character to crewmanager" errors when attempting to revive a character 
+killed by some other affliction than internal damage, bleeding or burns.
+- Take the position of a sub's docking port into account when determining where to place outposts.
+Previously the outposts were simply placed midway between the adjacent walls, which occasionally caused
+problems with submarines whose docking port is close to the bow or tail.
+- Fixed a bug in relay components that caused a bunch of issues in power grids that utilize relays:
+Relays would receive the full amount of power from the grid regardless of the load of the devices
+connected to the power_out connection, causing unnecessary overloads and fires.
+- Fixed batteries being able to draw power through relay components that are connected directly to 
+a power source, even if the relay isn't on.
+- Don't allow steering the sub with WASD when a textbox is selected.
+- Use the SpriteColor of the item when drawing the moving parts of turrets and doors.
+- Fixed steering issues that caused monsters to swim in an incorrect direction when they're targeting
+something inside the sub.
+- Fixed a crash due when scaling the Mudraptor.
+- Fixed crashing if a character has neither a head angle or a torso angle configured.
+- Fixed characters always being created in the default folder in the character editor.
+- Monsters don't target doors/hatches at the exterior of the sub when inside or inner doors when outside.
+- Don't display disabled limbs on sonar (i.e. severed limbs that have "faded out").
+- Close the save/load dialogs when leaving the sub editor. Otherwise they'll still be visible when 
+re-entering the editor, and saving at that point will overwrite the previously loaded sub with an empty one.
+- Removing an item after it's been combined doesn't trigger the OnBroken StatusEffects (e.g. combining two 
+half-full flash powder jars doesn't cause them to explode).
+- Fixed welding tools and plasma cutters not hitting targets if the barrel is inside the target (e.g. if
+trying to weld a completely broken wall with the cutter partially inside the wall).
+- Fixed very small mineral colliders that made them extremely hard to hit with the plasma cutter.
+- Fixed items with no sprite crashing the game (now they just cause a console error).
+- Don't allow autointeracting with contained items (e.g. picking up an ammunition box from a loader) 
+if another item is currently selected. Makes it less likely for players to accidentally pick up items 
+from containers when they deselect another item.
+- Fixed characters not letting go of the character they're grabbing when the health interface is closed
+by clicking outside the window.
+- Fixed CrewManager throwing errors if changing resolutions when a crew member is dead.
+- Fixed items emitting light from inside containers in the sub editor.
+
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