diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index cfccf7b..b7935ef 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@ gzip-1.4.tar.xz
 /gzip-1.5.tar.xz
 /gzip-1.6.tar.xz
 /gzip-1.7.tar.xz
+/gzip-1.8.tar.xz
diff --git a/gzip.spec b/gzip.spec
index aaf92eb..3f7685d 100644
--- a/gzip.spec
+++ b/gzip.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Summary: The GNU data compression program
 Name: gzip
-Version: 1.7
+Version: 1.8
 Release: 1%{?dist}
 # info pages are under GFDL license
 License: GPLv3+ and GFDL
@@ -91,6 +91,10 @@ fi
 %{profiledir}/*
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Jul 01 2016 Petr Stodulka <pstodulk@redhat.com> - 1.8-1
+- rebase to v1.8
+- gzip -l no longer falsely reports a write error when writing to a pipe
+
 * Tue Apr 05 2016 Petr Stodulka <pstodulk@redhat.com> - 1.7-1
 - rebase to new upstream version 1.7
 - dropped all patches (almost all issues are fixed in new upstream version,
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 6ce9902..b5f412d 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-d9ae97206a703a20e6c1c868deb3eb47  gzip-1.7.tar.xz
+f7caabb65cddc1a4165b398009bd05b9  gzip-1.8.tar.xz