diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 59f1e968..ebb48867 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2003-04-05  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>
+
+	* NEWS: update
+
+	* configure.in: 0.8
+
 2003-04-05  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>
 
 	* bus/bus.c (setup_server): fix this so dbus-daemon-1 doesn't 
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index d5cd46fa..3d1590e7 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+D-BUS 0.8
+===
+
+- fix dumb bug in 0.7
+
 D-BUS 0.7
 ===
 
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 04c47316..27483570 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ AC_PREREQ(2.52)
 
 AC_INIT(dbus/dbus.h)
 
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(dbus, 0.7)
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(dbus, 0.8)
 
 AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)