diff --git a/docs/changelog.rst b/docs/changelog.rst
index dde51f80..48cd4c5f 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/changelog.rst
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 Changelog
 ---------
+-  1.8.0 Fix for Serialization errors with JSON adapter (thanks
+   @aliaksandrb). Avoid concatenating bytes with strings (thanks
+   @jaysonsantos). Exclude __pycache__ dirs & compiled files in sdist
+   (thanks @koobs). Fix Tornado support behavior for Tornado 3 (thanks
+   @abhinav). decode_compressed_response option and filter (thanks
+   @jayvdb).
 -  1.7.4 [#217] Make use_cassette decorated functions actually return a
    value (thanks @bcen). [#199] Fix path transfromation defaults.
    Better headers dictionary management.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index f867399a..10bbe0b5 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ def run_tests(self):
 
 setup(
     name='vcrpy',
-    version='1.7.4',
+    version='1.8.0',
     description=(
         "Automatically mock your HTTP interactions to simplify and "
         "speed up testing"