[version] bump version to 0.8.34
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2c32af3f7a7b6..6cfd6126909a6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,16 +1,24 @@
 # ChangeLog
 
-## Unreleased
+## [0.8.34] - 2023-09-26
 
 ### New Features
 - Added `Konko` LLM support (#7775)
 - Add before/after context sentence (#7821)
+- EverlyAI integration with LlamaIndex through OpenAI library (#7820)
+-  add Arize Phoenix tracer to global handlers (#7835)
 
 ### Bug Fixes / Nits
 - Normalize scores returned from ElasticSearch vector store (#7792)
 - Fixed `refresh_ref_docs()` bug with order of operations (#7664)
 - Delay postgresql connection for `PGVectorStore` until actually needed (#7793)
 - Fix KeyError in delete method of `SimpleVectorStore` related to metadata filters (#7829)
+- Fix KeyError in delete method of `SimpleVectorStore` related to metadata filters (#7831)
+- Addressing PyYAML import error (#7784)
+- ElasticsearchStore: Update User-Agent + Add example docker compose (#7832)
+- `StorageContext.persist` supporting `Path` (#7783)
+- Update ollama.py (#7839)
+- fix bug for self._session_pool (#7834)
 
 ## [0.8.33] - 2023-09-25
 
diff --git a/llama_index/VERSION b/llama_index/VERSION
index f90154748a9ef..b326a53c94fc2 100644
--- a/llama_index/VERSION
+++ b/llama_index/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.8.33
+0.8.34
