diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index b81004e..0188fb8 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@
 /blaze-markup-0.6.2.0.tar.gz
 /blaze-markup-0.7.0.3.tar.gz
 /blaze-markup-0.7.1.1.tar.gz
+/blaze-markup-0.8.0.0.tar.gz
diff --git a/ghc-blaze-markup.spec b/ghc-blaze-markup.spec
index a6f1443..1e53100 100644
--- a/ghc-blaze-markup.spec
+++ b/ghc-blaze-markup.spec
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
 %bcond_with tests
 
 Name:           ghc-%{pkg_name}
-Version:        0.7.1.1
-Release:        3%{?dist}
+Version:        0.8.0.0
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        A blazingly fast markup combinator library for Haskell
 
 License:        BSD
@@ -91,6 +91,9 @@ This package provides the Haskell %{pkg_name} library development files.
 
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Jan 24 2018 Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com> - 0.8.0.0-1
+- update to 0.8.0.0
+
 * Wed Aug 02 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 0.7.1.1-3
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_27_Binutils_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 1dffd10..0a4ca9b 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (blaze-markup-0.7.1.1.tar.gz) = 5e5e1c2964c53813e8576d4ed7bc4c43e4ca7b0c08f4985db37b320db8e8106e4c50a4ec1bd2d77458095a1a9beb07920f102d2ccc44744a3d1d2801813b20fd
+SHA512 (blaze-markup-0.8.0.0.tar.gz) = a25efb2a9a6641933876961410767c761386563ad2365d202335fc8e1078e5aea9da63144ba0f8b506cd7a37baf36da2d3f51610656baa7b954d17c7a7b88842