diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index bce92c2..cf62ffc 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -8,3 +8,4 @@
 /dist-git-1.5.tar.gz
 /dist-git-1.6.tar.gz
 /dist-git-1.7.tar.gz
+/dist-git-1.8.tar.gz
diff --git a/dist-git.spec b/dist-git.spec
index 3eb0797..08db1ff 100644
--- a/dist-git.spec
+++ b/dist-git.spec
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 %global installdir /var/lib/dist-git
 
 Name:           dist-git
-Version:        1.7
-Release:        2%{?dist}
+Version:        1.8
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        Package source version control system
 
 # upload.cgi uses GPLv1
@@ -34,17 +34,10 @@ Requires(pre):  shadow-utils
 Requires:       python-requests
 Requires:       python-configparser
 Requires:       python-grokmirror
-
 %else
 Requires:       python2-requests
 Requires:       python2-configparser
-
-%if 0%{?fedora} < 28
-Recommends:     python-grokmirror
-%else
-Recommends:     python2-grokmirror
-%endif
-
+Recommends:     python3-grokmirror
 %endif
 
 %description
@@ -222,9 +215,6 @@ fi
 
 
 %changelog
-* Thu Jul 12 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.7-2
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_Mass_Rebuild
-
 * Mon Feb 26 2018 clime <clime@redhat.com> 1.7-1
 - move 'fedmsgs', 'old_paths', 'nomd5' options to optional upload section
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 06c47de..40f26a9 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (dist-git-1.7.tar.gz) = 1cecf5f423f781d3d2f87ab27cf6a80d4170b04f5f64bc52c90531a46d29a10bb78d39bb4143b80a6e8156f80ce41ef7b187c41949c772a96dc9926c4e7aadf8
+SHA512 (dist-git-1.8.tar.gz) = 0e2bba1dfcd4523cf34a8ef8bd0a3bacdb7e785103dbf87a1c25cb60f2e493557d7c144a19f7cd65d66c5053d99914165679910a7432135c6e0cd3cef518507e