diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
index fb967b486..ee452016d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-      - uses: dtolnay/rust-toolchain@1.67.1
+      - uses: dtolnay/rust-toolchain@1.72.1
         with:
           components: rustfmt
       - run: cargo fmt --all --check
diff --git a/.github/workflows/pr.yaml b/.github/workflows/pr.yaml
index 034f2ca00..1c11ef038 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pr.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pr.yaml
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-      - uses: dtolnay/rust-toolchain@1.67.1
+      - uses: dtolnay/rust-toolchain@1.72.1
         with:
           components: rustfmt
       - run: cargo fmt --all --check
diff --git a/RELEASES.md b/RELEASES.md
index 28b476d47..c1e42de9e 100644
--- a/RELEASES.md
+++ b/RELEASES.md
@@ -1,3 +1,18 @@
+# Release rayon 1.8.0 / rayon-core 1.12.0 (2023-09-20)
+
+- The minimum supported `rustc` is now 1.63.
+- Added `ThreadPoolBuilder::use_current_thread` to use the builder thread as
+  part of the new thread pool. That thread does not run the pool's main loop,
+  but it may participate in work-stealing if it yields to rayon in some way.
+- Implemented `FromParallelIterator<T>` for `Box<[T]>`, `Rc<[T]>`, and
+  `Arc<[T]>`, as well as `FromParallelIterator<Box<str>>` and
+  `ParallelExtend<Box<str>>` for `String`.
+- `ThreadPoolBuilder::build_scoped` now uses `std::thread::scope`.
+- The default number of threads is now determined using
+  `std::thread::available_parallelism` instead of the `num_cpus` crate.
+- The internal logging facility has been removed, reducing bloat for all users.
+- Many smaller performance tweaks and documentation updates.
+
 # Release rayon 1.7.0 / rayon-core 1.11.0 (2023-03-03)
 
 - The minimum supported `rustc` is now 1.59.