diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c5c50027d..6f6130eea 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+1.8.0
+=====
+- Refresh folder-copy and -move icons from Adwaita icon theme
+- Introduce ellipsis to Detailed View filename
+- Convert AppData file to AppStream (Bug #14037)
+- fixed and/or silenced all remaining gtk3 deprecations
+- Translation updates: Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech,
+Danish, Dutch, English (Australia), English (United Kingdom), French, Galician, German, Hebrew,
+Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil),
+Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian
+
 1.7.2
 =====
 - Thunar confuses files (bug #12435)
diff --git a/configure.ac.in b/configure.ac.in
index 05caeb57e..b554f5ecb 100644
--- a/configure.ac.in
+++ b/configure.ac.in
@@ -25,11 +25,11 @@ dnl ***************************
 m4_define([thunarx_verinfo], [0:0:0])
 m4_define([thunarx_version_api], [3])
 m4_define([thunar_version_major], [1])
-m4_define([thunar_version_minor], [7])
-m4_define([thunar_version_micro], [2])
+m4_define([thunar_version_minor], [8])
+m4_define([thunar_version_micro], [0])
 m4_define([thunar_version_nano], [])
 m4_define([thunar_version_build], [@REVISION@])
-m4_define([thunar_version_tag], [git])
+m4_define([thunar_version_tag], [])
 m4_define([thunar_version], [thunar_version_major().thunar_version_minor().thunar_version_micro()ifelse(thunar_version_nano(), [], [], [.thunar_version_nano()])ifelse(thunar_version_tag(), [git], [thunar_version_tag()-thunar_version_build()], [thunar_version_tag()])])
 
 dnl *******************************************