diff --git a/_posts/2024-08-29-release-0_8_0.md b/_posts/2024-08-29-release-0_8_0.md
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--- a/_posts/2024-08-29-release-0_8_0.md
+++ b/_posts/2024-08-29-release-0_8_0.md
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of [Kroxyliciou
 We discovered that when Kroxylicious is connecting to a proxied cluster using TLS, it does not verify that the hostname we are connecting to matches a name from the upstream certificate.
 In this release we have enabled this verification by default.
 
+This is being released as a minor version change rather than 0.7.1 because we follow the Semantic Versioning of our publicly supported `kroxylicious-api` jar.
+
 ### Artefacts
 
 You'll find binaries attached to the GitHub [release](https://github.com/kroxylicious/kroxylicious/releases/tag/v0.8.0), and available through [Maven Central](https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/io/kroxylicious/kroxylicious-app/0.8.0/).