diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 2843c28..12e83e6 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -13,3 +13,5 @@ Daniel Stenberg (Discussion, Ideas)
 Darshit Shah (Patching Wget to work with libpsl)
 Dagobert Michelsen (Fixed Solaris building)
 Christopher Meng (Fedora building)
+Jakub Čajka
+Giuseppe Scrivano
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c7962f5..e429792 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 Copyright (C) 2014 Tim Rühsen
 
+06.08.2015 Release V0.8.0
+  * Add https://github.com/publicsuffix as git submodule
+  * Support Debian 'Reproducible Builds'
+  * Fix generation of docs
+  * Check UTF-8 sequences for validity (for libidn<=1.30)
+  * Add LICENSE to distribution tarball
+  * Fix compatibility function strndup 
+
 21.02.2015 Release V0.7.1
   * include configured PSL file into tarball
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 9972531..9dac12c 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
-AC_INIT([libpsl], [0.7.1], [tim.ruehsen@gmx.de], [libpsl], [http://github.com/rockdaboot/libpsl])
+AC_INIT([libpsl], [0.8.0], [tim.ruehsen@gmx.de], [libpsl], [http://github.com/rockdaboot/libpsl])
 AC_PREREQ([2.59])
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.10 -Wall no-define foreign])
 
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG
 # 4. If any interfaces have been added, removed, or changed since the last update, increment current, and set revision to 0.
 # 5. If any interfaces have been added since the last public release, then increment age.
 # 6. If any existing interfaces have been removed or changed since the last public release, then set age to 0. 
-AC_SUBST([LIBPSL_SO_VERSION], [2:4:2])
+AC_SUBST([LIBPSL_SO_VERSION], [2:5:2])
 AC_SUBST([LIBPSL_VERSION], $VERSION)
 
 # Check for enable/disable builtin PSL data