diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 0280c9e..2484ccf 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -26,3 +26,4 @@ NetworkManager-openvpn-0.8.1.tar.bz2
 /NetworkManager-openvpn-1.8.2.tar.xz
 /NetworkManager-openvpn-1.8.4.tar.xz
 /NetworkManager-openvpn-1.8.6.tar.xz
+/NetworkManager-openvpn-1.8.8.tar.xz
diff --git a/NetworkManager-openvpn.spec b/NetworkManager-openvpn.spec
index e8b6266..388e574 100644
--- a/NetworkManager-openvpn.spec
+++ b/NetworkManager-openvpn.spec
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 %bcond_with    libnm_glib
 %endif
 
-%global real_version     1.8.6
-%global rpm_version      1.8.6
+%global real_version     1.8.8
+%global rpm_version      1.8.8
 %global release_version  1
 
 %global real_version_major %(printf '%s' '%{real_version}' | sed -n 's/^\\([1-9][0-9]*\\.[1-9][0-9]*\\)\\.[1-9][0-9]*$/\\1/p')
@@ -123,6 +123,9 @@ rm -f %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/NetworkManager/lib*.la
 
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Oct 17 2018 Beniamino Galvani <bgalvani@redhat.com> - 1:1.8.8-1
+- Update to 1.8.8 release
+
 * Tue Oct  2 2018 Thomas Haller <thaller@redhat.com> - 1:1.8.6-1
 - Update to 1.8.6 release
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 8f26d3d..5ce7975 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (NetworkManager-openvpn-1.8.6.tar.xz) = a2d711be58810aad337b9c8bdead1ba6f64c1d1315a772ab79815624794c79668ab5056587be7096ac7367554c16114c2a3805a03484c2ea265ba4cd3bd54d32
+SHA512 (NetworkManager-openvpn-1.8.8.tar.xz) = 8ed7612bcf727b540a74807ccc7ea7460dba3923a052e8716338bf2c852b6c027fd7547793af1b032a3c2348f9ffc579d1071aad2833baa37784bb5a17af1574