diff --git a/docs/changelog.rst b/docs/changelog.rst
index 1ffd5ba..68325f1 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/changelog.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
+v1.8.0 (2018 May 31)
+--------------------
+
+* [PR#39] Serialize packages before giving it to Django (thanks @askoretskiy)
+* [PR#41] Add the namespace parameter (thanks @afzaledx and @pomegranited)
+
 v1.7.0 (2018 Feb 11)
 --------------------
 
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 4bf0a1e..865a980 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -57,9 +57,9 @@
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = '1.7'
+version = '1.8'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '1.7.0'
+release = '1.8.0'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3ca977c..b581b99 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name="django-statici18n",
-    version="1.7.1",
+    version="1.8.0",
     author="Sebastien Fievet",
     author_email="zyegfryed@gmail.com",
     url="http://django-statici18n.readthedocs.org/",
diff --git a/src/statici18n/__init__.py b/src/statici18n/__init__.py
index 8f5da06..8bcfa00 100644
--- a/src/statici18n/__init__.py
+++ b/src/statici18n/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # following PEP 386
-__version__ = "1.7.0"
+__version__ = "1.8.0"
 
 default_app_config = 'statici18n.apps.StaticI18NConfig'