diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 662c096..23cb8e5 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1 @@
-/git-publish-1.6.0.tar.gz
-/git-publish-1.6.1.tar.gz
-/git-publish-1.7.0.tar.gz
+/git-publish-1.8.0.tar.gz
diff --git a/git-publish.spec b/git-publish.spec
index c85a95a..0dbccf7 100644
--- a/git-publish.spec
+++ b/git-publish.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Name:           git-publish
-Version:        1.7.0
-Release:        3%{?dist}
+Version:        1.8.0
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        Prepare and store patch revisions as git tags
 License:        MIT
 URL:            https://github.com/stefanha/git-publish
@@ -56,6 +56,15 @@ install -p -m 644 hooks/pre-publish-send-email.example %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/g
 %_datadir/git-publish/hooks/pre-publish-send-email.example
 
 %changelog
+* Sat Apr 16 2022 Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> - 1.8.0-1
+- Fixed character encoding when invoking git, editors, etc.
+- Replace NamedTemporaryFile usage since it does not work on Windows
+- Use the git's mbox format variant so that line endings are correct in
+  emails
+- Use git format-patch --cover-from-description=none so cover letters
+  are always populated correctly by git-publish
+- Print an error when invoked outside a git repo
+
 * Thu Jan 20 2022 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.7.0-3
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_36_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index bd0739c..c32b59c 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (git-publish-1.7.0.tar.gz) = dbf343e0284c52edd42ba8d844a9db90810ddd02e7a98bcd1c2af72cd9f5242e9c0a9ea921edf47583bfe05943288286e57a018a7a6b2dcf25bae4f663225025
+SHA512 (git-publish-1.8.0.tar.gz) = 8fe01b354b0484ead603cc8702c6d0d2702ddde50cc44d0e7d4f5c9ab490fd74ac6011281840b369925a78ee7b11355f40ed856af5456fdc46bea644a6a35206