diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import sdist_upip
 
 
 setup(name='picoweb',
-      version='1.7.2',
+      version='1.8',
       description="A very lightweight, memory-efficient async web framework \
 for Pycopy (https://github.com/pfalcon/pycopy) and its uasyncio module.",
       long_description=open('README.rst').read(),
setup.py: Release <I>.