diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 65e8c567..a100842a 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 SnapRAID HISTORY
 ================
 
+8.0 2015/01 BETA
+================
+
 7.1 2015/01
 ===========
  * In 'scrub' and 'sync' detects and reports Input/Output errors
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 06177cd7..2078ac7b 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 AC_PREREQ([2.65])
-AC_INIT([snapraid], [7.1], [], [], [http://snapraid.sourceforge.net])
+AC_INIT([snapraid], [8.0], [], [], [http://snapraid.sourceforge.net])
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign no-dependencies subdir-objects])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([cmdline/snapraid.c])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADER([config.h])