diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index d83cce6..cc0b4ba 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+pypureomapi (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Implement more generic lookup functions
+  * move group examples to source
+  * improve documentation
+
+ -- Dr. Torge Szczepanek <debian@cygnusnetworks.de>  Fri, 21 Sep 2018 15:14:59 +0200
+
 pypureomapi (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * add new method add_host_supersede
@@ -26,7 +34,7 @@ pypureomapi (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
   * Use new-style classes
   * Disabled doctests - to be included again later in next upstream release
   * Change project source from Google Code to Github after upstream migration
-  * Change maintainer to Torge Szczepanek and remove 
+  * Change maintainer to Torge Szczepanek and remove
     Helmut Grohne from uploaders
   [ Helmut Grohne ]
   * Bump python dependency to 2.6 since we need it.
diff --git a/pypureomapi.spec b/pypureomapi.spec
index 431a9e7..6104658 100644
--- a/pypureomapi.spec
+++ b/pypureomapi.spec
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 %endif
 
 %define srcname pypureomapi
-%define version 0.7
+%define version 0.8
 %define release 1
 %define sum Cygnus Networks GmbH %{srcname} package
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c2fc58d..cebe098 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 import distutils.core
 
 distutils.core.setup(name='pypureomapi',
-	version='0.7',
+	version='0.8',
 	description="ISC DHCP OMAPI protocol implementation in Python",
 	long_description="This module provides a OMAPI implementation for managing ISC DHCP server by OMAPI protocol purely in Python code. You can query, create or modify ISC DHCP leases with this module. This module grew out of frustration about pyomapi and later pyomapic, which use swig and the static library provided with ISC DHCP without proper error handling. pypureomapi fixes these issues and can be used more or less as a drop-in replacement for pyomapic.",
 	author='Helmut Grohne',