diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index b7d5276..0da00a7 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@
 /libpfm-4.5.0.tar.gz
 /libpfm-4.6.0.tar.gz
 /libpfm-4.7.0.tar.gz
+/libpfm-4.8.0.tar.gz
diff --git a/libpfm.spec b/libpfm.spec
index 39ae958..a0e91ea 100644
--- a/libpfm.spec
+++ b/libpfm.spec
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 %endif
 
 Name:		libpfm
-Version:	4.7.0
+Version:	4.8.0
 Release:	2%{?dist}
 
 Summary:	Library to encode performance events for use by perf tool
@@ -108,6 +108,9 @@ make \
 %endif
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Nov 7 2016 William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com> - 4.8.0-1
+- Rebase on libpfm-4.8.0.
+
 * Tue Jul 19 2016 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 4.7.0-2
 - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Automatic_Provides_for_Python_RPM_Packages
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index dcd270d..00d131c 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-44c171be724e3945b6b587c20d27a3fa  libpfm-4.7.0.tar.gz
+730383896db92e12fb2cc10f2d41dd43  libpfm-4.8.0.tar.gz