diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8146144..87bf7b4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,13 +4,22 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/).
 
+
+## [1.8.7] - 2024-11-5
+
+### Added
+
+- add parochial universalization agent to the main factories
+- add Jinja2 to the requirements to improve the prompting experience
+- Add get_raw_memories and get_raw_memories_as_text functions on the memory component.
+
+
 ## [1.8.6] - 2024-10-29
 
 ### Added
 
 - Add ability to save and load rational and basic agents to/from json.
-- Add a version of agent development colab that uses GCP hosted model
-
+- Add a version of agent development colab that uses GCP hosted model.
 
 ## [1.8.5] - 2024-10-21
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 31bd6d4..3ea17c1 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ def _remove_excluded(description: str) -> str:
 
 setuptools.setup(
     name='gdm-concordia',
-    version='1.8.6',
+    version='1.8.7',
     license='Apache 2.0',
     license_files=['LICENSE'],
     url='https://github.com/google-deepmind/concordia',