diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap
index eb9b5e0d..7a51588c 100644
--- a/.mailmap
+++ b/.mailmap
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ Maciej Małecki <maciej.malecki@notimplemented.org> <me@mmalecki.com>
 Marc Schlaich <marc.schlaich@googlemail.com> <marc.schlaich@gmail.com>
 Michael <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com>
 Michael Neumann <mneumann@think.localnet> <mneumann@ntecs.de>
+Nicholas Vavilov <vvnicholas@gmail.com>
 Rasmus Christian Pedersen <zerhacken@yahoo.com>
 Rasmus Christian Pedersen <zerhacken@yahoo.com> <ruysch@outlook.com>
 Robert Mustacchi <rm@joyent.com> <rm@fingolfin.org>
diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index b2397e2d..8dc3955c 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -225,3 +225,18 @@ Colin Snover <github.com@zetafleet.com>
 Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com>
 Eli Skeggs <skeggse@gmail.com>
 nmushell <nmushell@bloomberg.net>
+Gireesh Punathil <gpunathi@in.ibm.com>
+Ryan Johnston <ryan@mediapixel.co.nz>
+Adam Stylinski <stylinae@mail.uc.edu>
+Nathan Corvino <nathan@corvino.com>
+Wink Saville <wink@saville.com>
+Angel Leon <gubatron@gmail.com>
+Louis DeJardin <lodejard@microsoft.com>
+Imran Iqbal <imrani@ca.ibm.com>
+Petka Antonov <petka_antonov@hotmail.com>
+Ian Kronquist <iankronquist@teleport.com>
+kkdaemon <kkdaemon@gmail.com>
+Yuval Brik <yuval@brik.org.il>
+Joran Dirk Greef <joran@ronomon.com>
+Andrey Mazo <andrey.mazo@fidelissecurity.com>
+sztomi <hello.sztomi@gmail.com>
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 42f10352..d5f95404 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,102 @@
+2015.12.15, Version 1.8.0 (Stable)
+
+Changes since version 1.7.5:
+
+* unix: fix memory leak in uv_interface_addresses (Jianghua Yang)
+
+* unix: make uv_guess_handle work properly for AIX (Gireesh Punathil)
+
+* fs: undo uv__req_init when uv__malloc failed (Jianghua Yang)
+
+* build: remove unused 'component' GYP option (Saúl Ibarra Corretgé)
+
+* include: remove duplicate extern declaration (Jianghua Yang)
+
+* win: use the MSVC provided snprintf where possible (Jason Williams)
+
+* win, test: fix compilation warning (Saúl Ibarra Corretgé)
+
+* win: fix compilation with VS < 2012 (Ryan Johnston)
+
+* stream: support empty uv_try_write on unix (Fedor Indutny)
+
+* unix: fix request handle leak in uv__udp_send (Jianghua Yang)
+
+* src: replace QUEUE_SPLIT with QUEUE_MOVE (Ben Noordhuis)
+
+* unix: use QUEUE_MOVE when iterating over lists (Ben Noordhuis)
+
+* unix: squelch harmless valgrind warning (Ben Noordhuis)
+
+* test: don't abort on setrlimit() failure (Ben Noordhuis)
+
+* unix: only undo fs req registration in async mode (Ben Noordhuis)
+
+* unix: fix uv__getiovmax return value (HungMingWu)
+
+* unix: make work with Solaris Studio. (Adam Stylinski)
+
+* test: fix fs_event_watch_file_currentdir flakiness (Santiago Gimeno)
+
+* unix: skip prohibited syscalls on tvOS and watchOS (Nathan Corvino)
+
+* test: use FQDN in getaddrinfo_fail test (Wink Saville)
+
+* docs: clarify documentation of uv_tcp_init_ex (Andrius Bentkus)
+
+* win: fix comment (Miodrag Milanovic)
+
+* doc: fix typo in README (Angel Leon)
+
+* darwin: abort() if (un)locking fs mutex fails (Ben Noordhuis)
+
+* pipe: enable inprocess uv_write2 on Windows (Louis DeJardin)
+
+* win: properly return UV_EBADF when _close() fails (Nicholas Vavilov)
+
+* test: skip process_title for AIX (Imran Iqbal)
+
+* misc: expose handle print APIs (Petka Antonov)
+
+* include: add stdio.h to uv.h (Saúl Ibarra Corretgé)
+
+* misc: remove unnecessary null pointer checks (Ian Kronquist)
+
+* test,freebsd: skip udp_dual_stack if not supported (Santiago Gimeno)
+
+* linux: don't retry dup2/dup3 on EINTR (Ben Noordhuis)
+
+* unix: don't retry dup2/dup3 on EINTR (Ben Noordhuis)
+
+* test: fix -Wtautological-pointer-compare warnings (Saúl Ibarra Corretgé)
+
+* win: map ERROR_BAD_PATHNAME to UV_ENOENT (Tony Kelman)
+
+* test: fix test/test-tty.c for AIX (Imran Iqbal)
+
+* android: support api level less than 21 (kkdaemon)
+
+* fsevents: fix race on simultaneous init+close (Fedor Indutny)
+
+* linux,fs: fix p{read,write}v with a 64bit offset (Saúl Ibarra Corretgé)
+
+* fs: add uv_fs_realpath() (Yuval Brik)
+
+* win: fix path for removed and renamed fs events (Joran Dirk Greef)
+
+* win: do not read more from stream than available (Jeremy Whitlock)
+
+* test: test that uv_close() doesn't corrupt QUEUE (Andrey Mazo)
+
+* unix: fix uv_fs_event_stop() from fs_event_cb (Andrey Mazo)
+
+* test: fix self-deadlocks in thread_rwlock_trylock (Ben Noordhuis)
+
+* src: remove non ascii character (sztomi)
+
+* test: fix test udp_multicast_join6 for AIX (Imran Iqbal)
+
+
 2015.09.23, Version 1.7.5 (Stable), a8c1136de2cabf25b143021488cbaab05834daa8
 
 Changes since version 1.7.4:
diff --git a/appveyor.yml b/appveyor.yml
index c9f55134..9aa63c5a 100644
--- a/appveyor.yml
+++ b/appveyor.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-version: v1.7.5.build{build}
+version: v1.8.0.build{build}
 
 install:
   - cinst -y nsis
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index f911789c..011bee2a 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 # OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 
 AC_PREREQ(2.57)
-AC_INIT([libuv], [1.7.6], [https://github.com/libuv/libuv/issues])
+AC_INIT([libuv], [1.8.0], [https://github.com/libuv/libuv/issues])
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
 m4_include([m4/libuv-extra-automake-flags.m4])
 m4_include([m4/as_case.m4])
diff --git a/include/uv-version.h b/include/uv-version.h
index 7a637e07..6e61f55e 100644
--- a/include/uv-version.h
+++ b/include/uv-version.h
@@ -31,10 +31,10 @@
  */
 
 #define UV_VERSION_MAJOR 1
-#define UV_VERSION_MINOR 7
-#define UV_VERSION_PATCH 6
-#define UV_VERSION_IS_RELEASE 0
-#define UV_VERSION_SUFFIX "dev"
+#define UV_VERSION_MINOR 8
+#define UV_VERSION_PATCH 0
+#define UV_VERSION_IS_RELEASE 1
+#define UV_VERSION_SUFFIX ""
 
 #define UV_VERSION_HEX  ((UV_VERSION_MAJOR << 16) | \
                          (UV_VERSION_MINOR <<  8) | \