diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 2451c27ca..67786e246 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-3.0.7
+3.0.8
diff --git a/package/yast2-packager.changes b/package/yast2-packager.changes
index c3b78aab3..5a504146c 100644
--- a/package/yast2-packager.changes
+++ b/package/yast2-packager.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Nov  6 13:41:42 UTC 2013 - lslezak@suse.cz
+
+- reinitialize the target to sync the libzypp repomanager
+  so the online repositories are correctly written during update
+  (bnc#847659)
+- 3.0.8
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Nov  4 11:37:42 UTC 2013 - lslezak@suse.cz
 
diff --git a/src/clients/pkg_finish.rb b/src/clients/pkg_finish.rb
index 5888d8753..0e0d62c91 100644
--- a/src/clients/pkg_finish.rb
+++ b/src/clients/pkg_finish.rb
@@ -185,6 +185,10 @@ def BackUpAllTargetSources
 
       Builtins.y2milestone("All old repositories were removed from the target")
 
+      # reload the target to sync the removed repositories with libzypp repomanager
+      Pkg.TargetFinish
+      Pkg.TargetInitialize("/mnt")
+
       nil
     end
   end