diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 5e672825..7cf84562 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -406,10 +406,10 @@ jobs:
     <<: *machine_defaults
     working_directory: /tmp/ds005
     environment:
-      - FS_LICENSE: /tmp/fslicense/license.txt
-      - DATASET: ds005
-      - CHECK_DS005: true
-      - MIGAS_OPTOUT: 1
+      FS_LICENSE: /tmp/fslicense/license.txt
+      DATASET: ds005
+      CHECK_DS005: 1
+      MIGAS_OPTOUT: 1
     steps:
       - checkout:
           path: *src
@@ -573,10 +573,10 @@ jobs:
     <<: *machine_defaults
     working_directory: /tmp/ds054
     environment:
-      - FS_LICENSE: /tmp/fslicense/license.txt
-      - DATASET: ds054
-      - CHECK_DS054: true
-      - MIGAS_OPTOUT: 1
+      FS_LICENSE: /tmp/fslicense/license.txt
+      DATASET: ds054
+      CHECK_DS054: 1
+      MIGAS_OPTOUT: 1
     steps:
       - checkout:
           path: *src
@@ -666,9 +666,9 @@ jobs:
     <<: *machine_defaults
     working_directory: /tmp/ds210
     environment:
-      - FS_LICENSE: /tmp/fslicense/license.txt
-      - DATASET: ds210
-      - CHECK_DS210: true
+      FS_LICENSE: /tmp/fslicense/license.txt
+      DATASET: ds210
+      CHECK_DS210: 1
     steps:
       - checkout:
           path: *src
diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index 312c6356..e4e26503 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -633,6 +633,30 @@ A full list of changes can be found below.
 * MAINT: Ease CI packaging tests (#2472)
 * RF/FIX: Iterate over echo indices, not filenames, simplifying iteration logic (#2651)
 
+20.2.8 (July 18, 2024)
+======================
+Bug-fix release in the 20.2.x LTS series.
+
+We anticipate this being the final release in the 20.2.x LTS series.
+
+* FIX: Select volumetric dseg.tsv from recent TemplateFlow releases (#3257)
+* FIX: LTS package build (#3328)
+* DOC: Read html_baseurl from RTD environment, if available (#3324)
+* DOCKER: Pin conda environment more strictly (#2853)
+* MNT: Require niworkflows ~1.3.6 (#2740)
+* CI: Upgrade docker orb (#2865)
+
+This release includes a number of fixes that have accumulated in niworkflows,
+including the following fixes that affect fMRIPrep:
+
+* FIX: Remove unused ANTs parameter that was removed in 2.4.1 (nipreps/sdcflows#431)
+* FIX: Limit 3dQwarp to maximum 4 CPUs for stability reasons (nipreps/sdcflows#128)
+* MAINT: Make call to scipy.stats.mode compatible with scipy 1.11.0 (nipreps/sdcflows#371)
+* FIX: TSV2JSON should convert empty TSV files to empty JSON files (nipreps/niworkflows#747)
+* FIX: Use copy function that does not preserve mtime when creating fsaverage
+  directories (nipreps/niworkflows#703)
+* FIX: Set pixdim[4] to match RepetitionTime (nipreps/niworkflows#679)
+
 20.2.7 (January 24, 2022)
 =========================
 Bug-fix release in the 20.2.x LTS series.