diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 2d849e2..4bac2db 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -16,3 +16,4 @@
 /grass-7.8.4.tar.gz
 /grass-7.8.5.tar.gz
 /grass-7.8.6.tar.gz
+/grass-8.0.0.tar.gz
diff --git a/grass.spec b/grass.spec
index 5b20af2..f86caa0 100644
--- a/grass.spec
+++ b/grass.spec
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-%global shortver 78
+%global shortver 80
 %global macrosdir %(d=%{_rpmconfigdir}/macros.d; [ -d $d ] || d=%{_sysconfdir}/rpm; echo $d)
 
 Name:		grass
-Version:	7.8.6
-Release:	4%{?dist}
+Version:	8.0.0
+Release:	1%{?dist}
 Summary:	GRASS GIS - Geographic Resources Analysis Support System
 
 %if 0%{?fedora} >= 33 || 0%{?rhel} >= 9
@@ -283,9 +283,6 @@ do
 	iconv -f iso8859-1 -t utf8 $man > %{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man1/$(basename $man)"%{name}"
 done
 
-# create symlink to unversioned name
-ln -s %{_bindir}/%{name}%{shortver} %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/%{name}
-
 # symlink docs from GISBASE to standard system location
 mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_docdir}
 # append shortver to destination since man pages are unversioned
@@ -366,6 +363,9 @@ fi
 %{_libdir}/%{name}%{shortver}/include
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Jan 28 2022 Markus Neteler <neteler@mundialis.de> - 8.0.0-1
+- New upstream version GRASS GIS 8.0.0
+
 * Thu Jan 20 2022 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 7.8.6-4
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_36_Mass_Rebuild
 
@@ -411,16 +411,16 @@ fi
 * Tue Dec 22 2020 Markus Neteler <neteler@mundialis.de> - 7.8.5-1
 - New upstream version GRASS GIS 7.8.5
 
-* Tue Nov 24 20:59:37 CET 2020 Markus Neteler <neteler@mundialis.de> - 7.8.4-6
+* Tue Nov 24 2020 Markus Neteler <neteler@mundialis.de> - 7.8.4-6
 - Clean up proj-datumgrid requires < f34+
 
-* Fri Nov 20 15:59:37 CET 2020 Sandro Mani <manisandro@gmail.com> - 7.8.4-5
+* Fri Nov 20 2020 Sandro Mani <manisandro@gmail.com> - 7.8.4-5
 - Drop proj-datumgrid requires on f34+
 
-* Fri Nov  6 22:26:41 CET 2020 Sandro Mani <manisandro@gmail.com> - 7.8.4-4
+* Fri Nov  6 2020 Sandro Mani <manisandro@gmail.com> - 7.8.4-4
 - Rebuild (proj, gdal)
 
-* Wed Nov  4 18:22:40 CET 2020 Sandro Mani <manisandro@gmail.com> - 7.8.4-3
+* Wed Nov  4 2020 Sandro Mani <manisandro@gmail.com> - 7.8.4-3
 - Rebuild (PDAL)
 
 * Sat Oct 17 2020 Markus Neteler <neteler@mundialis.de> - 7.8.4-2
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 9d7b11b..999101a 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (grass-7.8.6.tar.gz) = 6db10a20e5b70f0ce9a8fc4d6966c6f078453a88fa8f0577c1c62303f9787fa3bf3369e281f7ca864280c865e3ef022c51d8805d1258ea04da45e63cd34c27df
+SHA512 (grass-8.0.0.tar.gz) = 29bd57fb017937b0f3ad105790449704c6f12b56ffe79091f0aceed328f4da5293dd42cc3071158aad5386a51309f35a4f0b9bbd57221431e705f51880c2ce42