diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 295d876..7a99967 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
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 Tax-Brain
diff --git a/RELEASES.md b/RELEASES.md
index ea7773c..a932e4d 100644
--- a/RELEASES.md
+++ b/RELEASES.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Tax-Brain Release History
 
-## 2025-12-19 Release 2.8.0
+## 2025-12-23 Release 2.8.0
 
 Last Merged Pull Request: [#209](https://github.com/PSLmodels/Tax-Brain/pull/209)
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index cae41c3..62a2146 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 
 install_requires = ["taxcalc", "behresp", "dask", "bokeh"]
 
-with open("README.md", "r") as f:
-    long_description = f.read()
+with open("README.md", "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+    longdesc = f.read()
 version = "2.8.0"
 setuptools.setup(
     name="taxbrain",
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@
     author="Anderson Frailey",
     author_email="andersonfrailey@gmail.com",
     description="Python library for advanced tax policy analysis",
-    long_description=long_description,
+    long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
+    long_description=longdesc,
     url="https://github.com/PSLmodels/Tax-Brain",
     packages=["taxbrain"],
     install_requires=install_requires,