diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 3345bbf..7b6223b 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1 @@
-/AppStream-0.11.7.tar.xz
+/AppStream-0.11.8.tar.xz
diff --git a/appstream.spec b/appstream.spec
index be65776..14f6b2e 100644
--- a/appstream.spec
+++ b/appstream.spec
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 
 Summary: Utilities to generate, maintain and access the AppStream database 
 Name:    appstream
-Version: 0.11.7
-Release: 2%{?dist}
+Version: 0.11.8
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 
 # lib LGPLv2+, tools GPLv2+
 License: GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+
@@ -181,6 +181,9 @@ mv %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/metainfo/*.xml \
 
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Jan 26 2018 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> - 0.11.8-1
+- 0.11.8
+
 * Fri Dec 29 2017 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> - 0.11.7-2
 - use metainfo dir for f28+
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index b74aac4..1e0dd4a 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (AppStream-0.11.7.tar.xz) = 302ae258fee4f1811ec0bbd6b200ec9d26655d969e2487fca20ed4fde27a4bc06ad4839fe119e61fd088723d5d0cbd9461fcb714bf0abdefdedd6b297107f54f
+SHA512 (AppStream-0.11.8.tar.xz) = f6816e454ea3b8a9bd9ad47e7bb0dbc7d1712116dcce6305c2b33eceaed0f9d72d81fb71de4cee9ad7de56135aa2ee0ba0c24c517c40a2eb8f72258cfd5152e5