diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 53d4556..32137b0 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -18,3 +18,4 @@
 /bstr-1.6.0.crate
 /bstr-1.6.2.crate
 /bstr-1.7.0.crate
+/bstr-1.8.0.crate
diff --git a/bstr-fix-metadata.diff b/bstr-fix-metadata.diff
index 32ba761..a7065b4 100644
--- a/bstr-fix-metadata.diff
+++ b/bstr-fix-metadata.diff
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
---- bstr-1.7.0/Cargo.toml	1970-01-01T00:00:01+00:00
-+++ bstr-1.7.0/Cargo.toml	2023-10-10T08:52:15.329437+00:00
+--- bstr-1.8.0/Cargo.toml	1970-01-01T00:00:01+00:00
++++ bstr-1.8.0/Cargo.toml	2023-11-09T21:25:33.111346+00:00
 @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
      "text-processing",
      "encoding",
diff --git a/rust-bstr.spec b/rust-bstr.spec
index a1534af..1bc9562 100644
--- a/rust-bstr.spec
+++ b/rust-bstr.spec
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 %global crate bstr
 
 Name:           rust-bstr
-Version:        1.7.0
+Version:        1.8.0
 Release:        %autorelease
 Summary:        String type that is not required to be valid UTF-8
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 145ed35..48a20fb 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (bstr-1.7.0.crate) = b6cad70391525589dc028e685065db280837ae00b60824fe58ec3d77d71cb343680c745845944b3ffe05c02577eb7c2eafdac82537009b1778a7ffc47a5d42bb
+SHA512 (bstr-1.8.0.crate) = 9b8828790f3e342e69bb92cb9231c7134188c168a9b67a8705dc2e3370b86885f99e4d47f21ff68afc9147968b0fbf5a293307b09f132dddc550d8cd576f1048