diff --git a/erofs-utils.changes b/erofs-utils.changes
index eae831f..b385d46 100644
--- a/erofs-utils.changes
+++ b/erofs-utils.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Aug  9 21:49:47 UTC 2024 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+
+- Update to release 1.8
+  * Multi-threaded compression support with the mkfs.erofs utility.
+  * Supporting the Intel IAA hardware accelerator using the QPL
+    driver (for contemporary Xeon Scalable systems).
+  * Initial support for Zstandard (Zstd) compression.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Nov 29 16:43:32 UTC 2023 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
 
diff --git a/erofs-utils.spec b/erofs-utils.spec
index f37f8c6..d72b3db 100644
--- a/erofs-utils.spec
+++ b/erofs-utils.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package erofs-utils
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2023 SUSE LLC
+# Copyright (c) 2024 SUSE LLC
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 
 Name:           erofs-utils
-Version:        1.7.1
+Version:        1.8
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Utilities for the Extendable Read-Only Filesystem (EROFS)
 License:        GPL-2.0-or-later
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ BuildRequires:  libtool
 BuildRequires:  libuuid-devel
 BuildRequires:  pkg-config
 BuildRequires:  xz
+BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(liblzma)
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(zlib)
 Supplements:    filesystem(erofs)
 
@@ -40,11 +41,11 @@ mkfs.erofs is a user-space tool to create erofs filesystem images. It
 can create two main types of erofs images, compressed and
 uncompressed:
 
- * For compressed images, it is able to integrate several compression
-   algorithms, LZ4 is supported according to the current erofs kernel
-   implementation.
- * For uncompressed images, it can decide whether the last page of a
-   file should be inlined or not properly.
+* For compressed images, it is able to integrate several compression
+  algorithms, LZ4 is supported according to the current erofs kernel
+  implementation.
+* For uncompressed images, it can decide whether the last page of a
+  file should be inlined or not properly.
 
 %prep
 %autosetup -p1
diff --git a/v1.7.1.tar.gz b/v1.7.1.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 39d4d72..0000000
--- a/v1.7.1.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:196083d63e5e231fb5799e7ce86a944bbca564daabce3de9225a8aca9dcaff15
-size 165490
diff --git a/v1.8.tar.gz b/v1.8.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ea1479f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/v1.8.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:117f9e5d9411e8188abb6bf77d9fa967291f60a9ee65f3dcb8e9f88e5307afdf
+size 184008