Releasing memory leak fixes for 2.8

Change-Id: I6d1bf9ecbaef67af40a08938479b74ed2aaed148
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 9423d08..6c4bbe4 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.8.20
+2.8.21