diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f37555d4..afae944a 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-1.7.2
-  * Require Python >= 2.2.1, remove httplib
+1.8.0
+  * Require Python >= 2.2.1, remove httplib.
   * Add again python-dns, the Debian package maintainer is unresponsive
 
 1.7.1
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 4215896b..ffeca12b 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-linkchecker (1.7.2-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
+linkchecker (1.8.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
-  * New upstream release
+  * New upstream release.
 
  -- Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@debian.org>  Wed, 27 Nov 2002 00:31:56 +0100
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 75023bde..5b7041d0 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ myname = "Bastian Kleineidam"
 myemail = "calvin@users.sourceforge.net"
 
 setup (name = "linkchecker",
-       version = "1.7.1",
+       version = "1.8.0",
        description = "check HTML documents for broken links",
        author = myname,
        author_email = myemail,