diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index f02ef86..64acb9b 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Release 1.8 (2019-03-30):
+- Request #20: infix comparison operators for Q and Z [Max Mouratov]
+- Request #39: gdc(x,0) = gcd(0,x) = x [Vincent Laporte]
+- Request #41: support for upcoming OCaml 4.08 [Daniel Hillerström]
+- Issue #17: add package zarith.top with REPL printer [Christophe Troestler]
 - Issue #22: wrong stack marking directive in caml_z_x86_64_mingw64.S
   [Bernhard Schommer]
 - Issue #24: generate and install .cmti files for easy access to documentation
diff --git a/META b/META
index 891b779..a0e04fd 100644
--- a/META
+++ b/META
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 description = "Arbitrary precision integers"
 requires = ""
-version = "1.5"
+version = "1.8"
 archive(byte) = "zarith.cma"
 archive(native) = "zarith.cmxa"
 
 package "top" (
-  version = "1.5"
+  version = "1.8"
   description = "ZArith toplevel support"
   requires = "zarith"
   archive(byte) = "zarith_top.cma"