diff --git a/Changes.md b/Changes.md
index 9ea37f5..60337d4 100644
--- a/Changes.md
+++ b/Changes.md
@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@
 
 Changelog: Faktory || [Faktory Enterprise](https://github.com/contribsys/faktory/blob/master/Ent-Changes.md)
 
-## 1.7.1
+## 1.8.0
 
+- Upgrade to Go 1.21 and go-redis 9.2.0.
 - Don't double encode HTML entities for display in Web UI [#440]
 - Validate and limit `days` parameter for Dashboard [#431] CVE-2023-37279
 - Validate and limit `timeInterval` refresh parameter for Dashboard
diff --git a/Ent-Changes.md b/Ent-Changes.md
index 8f6c2f8..f7796ec 100644
--- a/Ent-Changes.md
+++ b/Ent-Changes.md
@@ -5,8 +5,9 @@ Changelog: [Faktory](https://github.com/contribsys/faktory/blob/master/Changes.m
 A trial version of Faktory Enterprise for macOS is available with each [release](/contribsys/faktory/releases/).
 Click to purchase [Faktory Enterprise](https://billing.contribsys.com/fent/).
 
-## HEAD
+## 1.8.0
 
+- Migrate usage of SHA1 to SHA256 to appease linters
 - Fix broken default Statsd namespacing [#433]
 
 ## 1.7.0
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 4432169..8020e80 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 NAME=faktory
-VERSION=1.7.1
+VERSION=1.8.0
 
 # when fixing packaging bugs but not changing the binary, we increment ITERATION
 ITERATION=1
diff --git a/client/faktory.go b/client/faktory.go
index f2ca228..48b75bb 100644
--- a/client/faktory.go
+++ b/client/faktory.go
@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@ package client
 
 var (
 	Name    = "Faktory"
-	Version = "1.7.1"
+	Version = "1.8.0"
 )