diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 9d985db..2003068 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -30,3 +30,4 @@
 /Add-a-fail-no-debug-info-to-abidiff.patch
 /libabigail-1.6.tar.gz
 /libabigail-1.7.tar.gz
+/libabigail-1.8.tar.gz
diff --git a/libabigail.spec b/libabigail.spec
index 9dfac47..8b01031 100644
--- a/libabigail.spec
+++ b/libabigail.spec
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 %global tarball_name %{name}-%{version}
 
 Name: libabigail
-Version: 1.7
-Release: 2%{?dist}
+Version: 1.8
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 Summary: Set of ABI analysis tools
 
 License: LGPLv3+
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ BuildRequires: dos2unix
 BuildRequires: dpkg
 BuildRequires: wget
 BuildRequires: koji
+BuildRequires: python3-koji
 
 %description
 The libabigail package comprises seven command line utilities:
@@ -115,7 +116,7 @@ pathfix.py -i %{__python3} -pn %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/fedabipkgdiff
 %endif
 
 %check
-time make %{?_smp_mflags} check || (cat tests/test-suite.log && exit 2)
+time make %{?_smp_mflags} check check-self-compare || (cat tests/test-suite.log && exit 2)
 
 if test $? -ne 0; then
   cat tests/tests-suite.log
@@ -155,6 +156,11 @@ fi
 %endif
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Dec  1 2020 Dodji Seketeli <dodji@redhat.com> - 1.8-1
+- Update to upstream 1.8
+- Add 'make check-self-compare' to the regression tests run.
+- BuildRequires python3-koji
+
 * Tue Jul 28 2020 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.7-2
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_33_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index cf5681d..7cca5f7 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (libabigail-1.7.tar.gz) = 02971c8f760cd7c6e7f77ef323c93769270666652a8f491b30cce74aa9bc20e2c5113eca0a534b814e9c8567538b6b7b84d15687e0ac15cf8ece736b2f7e2261
+SHA512 (libabigail-1.8.tar.gz) = 5000aca7fd506d7ecc7e25710ff18f8af13946328df8b403ce9277c7cd982c4dc9053b814db81038cdec312abe685ea72055a2bfd91830f939357435ab2e3d92