diff --git a/redbot/__init__.py b/redbot/__init__.py
index a7982024c69..2a5c0a7e70c 100644
--- a/redbot/__init__.py
+++ b/redbot/__init__.py
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ def _update_event_loop_policy():
             _asyncio.set_event_loop_policy(_uvloop.EventLoopPolicy())
 
 
-__version__ = "3.1.7"
+__version__ = "3.1.8"
 version_info = VersionInfo.from_str(__version__)
 
 # Filter fuzzywuzzy slow sequence matcher warning
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 65b4a263567..2e5c828d5ec 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ install_requires =
     colorama==0.4.1
     contextlib2==0.5.5
     databases[sqlite]==0.2.5
-    discord.py==1.2.4
+    discord.py==1.2.5
     distro==1.4.0; sys_platform == "linux"
     fuzzywuzzy==0.17.0
     idna==2.8
@@ -49,9 +49,7 @@ install_requires =
     Red-Lavalink==0.4.0
     schema==0.7.0
     tqdm==4.35.0
-    # Below is due to an issue with uvloop < 0.14 with python 3.8, move both to 0.14 at full release
-    uvloop==0.13.0; sys_platform != "win32" and platform_python_implementation == "CPython" and python_version<"3.8"
-    uvloop==0.14.0rc2; sys_platform != "win32" and platform_python_implementation == "CPython" and python_version>="3.8"
+    uvloop==0.14.0; sys_platform != "win32" and platform_python_implementation == "CPython"
     websockets==6.0
     yarl==1.3.0