diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 49d8c54..8a46b34 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -13,6 +13,12 @@ Django Categories grew out of our need to provide a basic hierarchical taxonomy
 
 As a news site, our stories, photos, and other content get divided into "sections" and we wanted all the apps to use the same set of sections. As our needs grew, the Django Categories grew in the functionality it gave to category handling within web pages.
 
+New in 1.8
+==========
+
+* Support for Django 3.1
+* Removed support for Python 2.7
+
 New in 1.7
 ==========
 
diff --git a/categories/__init__.py b/categories/__init__.py
index 389e06c..7808fc0 100644
--- a/categories/__init__.py
+++ b/categories/__init__.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 __version_info__ = {
     'major': 1,
-    'minor': 7,
-    'micro': 2,
+    'minor': 8,
+    'micro': 0,
     'releaselevel': 'final',
     'serial': 1
 }