diff --git a/doap.xml b/doap.xml
index 4c2ea832..36c92b41 100644
--- a/doap.xml
+++ b/doap.xml
@@ -1012,5 +1012,12 @@
             <file-release rdf:resource="https://lab.louiz.org/poezio/slixmpp/-/archive/slix-1.7.1/slixmpp-slix-1.7.1.tar.gz"/>
         </Version>
     </release>
+    <release>
+        <Version>
+            <revision>1.8.0</revision>
+            <created>2022-02-27</created>
+            <file-release rdf:resource="https://lab.louiz.org/poezio/slixmpp/-/archive/slix-1.8.0/slixmpp-slix-1.8.0.tar.gz"/>
+        </Version>
+    </release>
 </Project>
 </rdf:RDF>
diff --git a/slixmpp/version.py b/slixmpp/version.py
index 7cff2e74..027f69e2 100644
--- a/slixmpp/version.py
+++ b/slixmpp/version.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-
 # Slixmpp: The Slick XMPP Library
 # Copyright (C) 2010  Nathanael C. Fritz
 # This file is part of Slixmpp.
@@ -6,5 +5,5 @@
 # We don't want to have to import the entire library
 # just to get the version info for setup.py
 
-__version__ = '1.7.0'
-__version_info__ = (1, 7, 0)
+__version__ = '1.8.0'
+__version_info__ = (1, 8, 0)