diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 52f812a76536f42d7fa347ee327f63cf9562d758..79b3f471299dcabdbb19167471f60e03e273c3ed 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+1.8 - 2011-11-03
+	- Use hash table to speed up hard link detection
+	- Added read-only option (-r)
+	- Use KiB instead of kiB (#3399279)
+
 1.7 - 2010-08-13
 	- List the detected hard links in file info window
 	- Count the size of a hard linked file once for each directory it appears in
diff --git a/README b/README
index 7a57ec5df2e62c98eab5d4f6c39527b51333589b..30583b254018d86e75ae3592cf15ca7e52a34513 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-ncdu git
+ncdu 1.8g
 ========
 
 DESCRIPTION
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index c4ee13e3e33371764904ca32e0ff8226580c5924..72377de482c81dbaaa30dc5086dbb5b7e8007307 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
-AC_INIT(ncdu, git, projects@yorhel.nl)
+AC_INIT(ncdu, 1.8g, projects@yorhel.nl)
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/global.h])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADER([config.h])
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
diff --git a/doc/ncdu.1 b/doc/ncdu.1
index 0560dbd1918547ce2c7e2218dbaf9722b2e8eb7b..2ddf8e4680f0611e6b2648c8cd97aaf34b5f9ac8 100644
--- a/doc/ncdu.1
+++ b/doc/ncdu.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH ncdu 1 "Aug 13, 2010" "ncdu-git" "ncdu manual"
+.TH ncdu 1 "Nov 3, 2011" "ncdu-1.8g" "ncdu manual"
 
 .SH NAME
 \fBncdu \fP- NCurses Disk Usage