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diff --git a/gap-design.changes b/gap-design.changes
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--- a/gap-design.changes
+++ b/gap-design.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Jun 25 09:33:31 UTC 2023 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+
+- Update to release 1.8
+  * Added the undocumented function ``OARunMultiplicityBound``
+  * Improved the performance of ``BlockIntersectionPolynomialCheck``
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Oct 14 16:52:30 UTC 2022 - Stefan Brüns <stefan.bruens@rwth-aachen.de>
 
diff --git a/gap-design.spec b/gap-design.spec
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--- a/gap-design.spec
+++ b/gap-design.spec
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 #
 # spec file for package gap-design
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2022 SUSE LLC
+# Copyright (c) 2023 SUSE LLC
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
 Name:           gap-design
 Summary:        GAP: The Design Package for GAP
-Version:        1.7
+Version:        1.8
 Release:        0
 License:        GPL-2.0-or-later
 Group:          Productivity/Scientific/Math