diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 30dcce41fc518..c0faa6ceb7f36 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,11 +1,19 @@
 # ChangeLog
 
-## Unreleased
+## [0.8.56] - 2023-10-30
 
 ### New Features
 
 - Add Amazon `BedrockEmbedding` (#8550)
 - Moves `HuggingFaceEmbedding` to center on `Pooling` enum for pooling (#8467)
+- Add IBM WatsonX LLM support (#8587)
+
+### Bug Fixes / Nits
+- [Bug] Patch Clarifai classes (#8529)
+- fix retries for bedrock llm (#8528)
+- Fix : VectorStore’s QueryResult always returns saved Node as TextNode (#8521)
+- Added default file_metadata to get basic metadata that many postprocessors use, for SimpleDirectoryReader (#8486)
+- Handle metadata with None values in chromadb (#8584)
 
 ## [0.8.55] - 2023-10-29
 
diff --git a/llama_index/VERSION b/llama_index/VERSION
index d18d4b10d1e3f..7b9e4788a6e81 100644
--- a/llama_index/VERSION
+++ b/llama_index/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.8.55
+0.8.56
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 5c72833ecfe28..eb19bdd16423d 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ name = "llama-index"
 packages = [{include = "llama_index"}]
 readme = "README.md"
 repository = "https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index"
-version = "0.8.55"
+version = "0.8.56"
 
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
 SQLAlchemy = {extras = ["asyncio"], version = ">=1.4.49"}