diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci_test-conda.yml b/.github/workflows/ci_test-conda.yml
index 3d53dd7d5b2..7769657c12d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci_test-conda.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci_test-conda.yml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         python-version: ["3.8"]
-        pytorch-version: ["1.4", "1.5", "1.6", "1.7", "1.8", "1.9", "1.10", "1.11", "1.12"]
+        pytorch-version: ["1.4", "1.5", "1.6", "1.7", "1.8", "1.9", "1.10", "1.11"]  #, "1.12"
         include:
           - {python-version: 3.7, pytorch-version: '1.3'}
     env:
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3eaaad47d75..e6dcea28a3a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ ______________________________________________________________________
 [![Build Status](https://dev.azure.com/PytorchLightning/Metrics/_apis/build/status/PyTorchLightning.metrics?branchName=master)](https://dev.azure.com/PytorchLightning/Metrics/_build/latest?definitionId=3&branchName=master)
 [![codecov](https://codecov.io/gh/PyTorchLightning/metrics/branch/master/graph/badge.svg?token=NER6LPI3HS)](https://codecov.io/gh/PyTorchLightning/metrics)
 
-[![Slack](https://img.shields.io/badge/slack-chat-green.svg?logo=slack)](https://join.slack.com/t/pytorch-lightning/shared_invite/zt-12iz3cds1-uyyyBYJLiaL2bqVmMN7n~A)
+[![Slack](https://img.shields.io/badge/slack-chat-green.svg?logo=slack)](https://www.pytorchlightning.ai/community)
 [![Documentation Status](https://readthedocs.org/projects/torchmetrics/badge/?version=latest)](https://torchmetrics.readthedocs.io/en/latest/?badge=latest)
 [![DOI](https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.5844769.svg)](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5844769)
 [![JOSS status](https://joss.theoj.org/papers/561d9bb59b400158bc8204e2639dca43/status.svg)](https://joss.theoj.org/papers/561d9bb59b400158bc8204e2639dca43)
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ def metric_ddp(rank, world_size):
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
-    world_size = 2  # number of gpus to parallize over
+    world_size = 2  # number of gpus to parallelize over
     mp.spawn(metric_ddp, args=(world_size,), nprocs=world_size, join=True)
 ```
 
@@ -319,19 +319,18 @@ The lightning + torchmetric team is hard at work adding even more metrics.
 But we're looking for incredible contributors like you to submit new metrics
 and improve existing ones!
 
-Join our [Slack](https://join.slack.com/t/pytorch-lightning/shared_invite/zt-12iz3cds1-uyyyBYJLiaL2bqVmMN7n~A)
-to get help becoming a contributor!
+Join our [Slack](https://www.pytorchlightning.ai/community) to get help become a contributor!
 
 ## Community
 
-For help or questions, join our huge community on [Slack](https://join.slack.com/t/pytorch-lightning/shared_invite/zt-12iz3cds1-uyyyBYJLiaL2bqVmMN7n~A)!
+For help or questions, join our huge community on [Slack](https://www.pytorchlightning.ai/community)!
 
 ## Citation
 
 We’re excited to continue the strong legacy of open source software and have been inspired
 over the years by Caffe, Theano, Keras, PyTorch, torchbearer, ignite, sklearn and fast.ai.
 
-If you want to cite this framework feel free to use GitHub's built-in citation option to generate a bibtex or APA-Style citation based on [this file](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/metrics/blob/master/CITATION.cff)(but only if you loved it 😊).
+If you want to cite this framework feel free to use GitHub's built-in citation option to generate a bibtex or APA-Style citation based on [this file](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/metrics/blob/master/CITATION.cff) (but only if you loved it 😊).
 
 ## License
 
diff --git a/torchmetrics/__about__.py b/torchmetrics/__about__.py
index 9064d5fc70e..6b231e6d7d2 100644
--- a/torchmetrics/__about__.py
+++ b/torchmetrics/__about__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-__version__ = "0.8.0rc0"
+__version__ = "0.8.0"
 __author__ = "PyTorchLightning et al."
 __author_email__ = "name@pytorchlightning.ai"
 __license__ = "Apache-2.0"