diff --git a/Changelog.yaml b/Changelog.yaml
index 0d29ea91a2..da03033cb9 100644
--- a/Changelog.yaml
+++ b/Changelog.yaml
@@ -20,6 +20,66 @@
# new recipes:
# - title:
+- version: 1.8.0
+ date: 2013-10-25
+
+ new features:
+ - title: "DOCX Input: Support linked (as opposed to embedded) images, if the linked image is found on the local computer."
+ tickets: [1243597]
+
+ - title: 'FB2 Input: Add support for note and cite back references. Link pairs of type="note" and type="cite" now automatically generate the correct back reference.'
+ tickets: [1243714]
+
+ - title: "When automerging books during during an add, include the author as well as the title in the report of merged books."
+
+ - title: "OS X Mavericks (10.9) breaks connecting to iTunes and iBooks on iOS devices. For more details see: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=215624"
+
+ bug fixes:
+ - title: "OS X: Fix system tray notifications causing crashes on some OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) systems (those that had Growl installed at some point)."
+ tickets: [1224491]
+
+ - title: "OSX: Fix font size in completion popups too small on Mavericks (I hope)"
+ tickets: [1243761]
+
+ - title: "PDF Output: Fix rendering of some semi-transparent images. All semi-transparent images are now rendered using soft masks."
+ tickets: [1243829]
+
+ - title: "MOBI Output: Fix text marked with white-space:pre-wrap causing the Kindle to break lines at arbitrary points inside words."
+ tickets: [1240235]
+
+ - title: "FB2 Input: Fix a regression that broke conversion of FB2 files with paragraphs having both a style and an id attribute."
+ tickets: [1243709]
+
+ - title: "TXT Input: Ensure that
in the generated HTML has a meaningful value."
+ tickets: [1236923]
+
+ - title: "Book details panel: Fix HTML in author names and identifiers not being escaped"
+ tickets: [1243976]
+
+ - title: "HTML 5 parsing: Fix handling of xml:lang attributes on all elements xml:lang is now mapped to a plain lang on all elements, not just "
+
+ - title: "Update HTML 5 parser used in calibre (html5lib-python) to fix a few corner cases"
+
+ - title: "When bulk deleting formats, use a single temporary directory for the deleted files. This makes restoring them from the recycle bin a little cleaner. Also might fix the reported issue with the windows recycle bin choking on creating a large number of folders."
+
+ - title: "DOCX Input: Add support for hyperlink fields that have only anchors and not URLs"
+
+ - title: "DOCX Input: Fix handling of multiple block level bookmarks at the same location."
+ tickets: [1241451]
+
+ - title: "HTMLZ Output: Fix Htmlz does not apply inline css from ."
+ tickets: [1242261]
+
+ - title: "Fix the restore database operation failing on windows installs with long usernames (this would cause the path to the temporary folder used to restore the database to become too long)."
+
+ - title: "ODT Input: Various workarounds for broken ODT files generated my mk4ht"
+
+ - title: "Fix a bug with non-ascii text in the create catalog dialog"
+ ticket: [1241515]
+
+ improved recipes:
+ - A List Apart
+
- version: 1.7.0
date: 2013-10-18
diff --git a/src/calibre/constants.py b/src/calibre/constants.py
index ad728b7712..4056ab39b0 100644
--- a/src/calibre/constants.py
+++ b/src/calibre/constants.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ __license__ = 'GPL v3'
__copyright__ = '2008, Kovid Goyal kovid@kovidgoyal.net'
__docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
__appname__ = u'calibre'
-numeric_version = (1, 7, 0)
+numeric_version = (1, 8, 0)
__version__ = u'.'.join(map(unicode, numeric_version))
__author__ = u"Kovid Goyal "