diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6b0ca82..0e20682 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ issue-generator NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
 
 Copyright (C) 2017-2020 Thorsten Kukuk et al.
 
+Version 1.8
+* Don't rely on t-u's good states in GRUB
+  With the introduction of the "apply" command in transactional-update the
+  snapshot id's cannnot be reused any more. Due to that store the snapshot
+  number separately now, too.
+
 Version 1.7
 * Before rollback make sure /.snapshots is mounted rw
 * Fix typos and spelling errors. Note: in case an application is parsing
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index ac029f6..cb40559 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
-AC_INIT(health-checker, 1.7)
+AC_INIT(health-checker, 1.8)
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
 AC_PREFIX_DEFAULT(/usr)