diff --git a/_service b/_service
index d4af9e9..eab9e4f 100644
--- a/_service
+++ b/_service
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     <param name="scm">git</param>
     <param name="exclude">.git</param>
     <param name="version">git-master</param>
-    <param name="versionformat">0.7.0.%ct.%h</param>
+    <param name="versionformat">0.8.0.%ct.%h</param>
     <param name="changesgenerate">enable</param>
     <param name="extract">dist/obs-service-tar_scm.spec</param>
   </service>
diff --git a/_servicedata b/_servicedata
index 38007aa..60bda89 100644
--- a/_servicedata
+++ b/_servicedata
@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@
             <param name="url">git://github.com/M0ses/obs-service-tar_scm.git</param>
           <param name="changesrevision">b742dfc0e12755cf306a95439494b5bdde7c0c61</param></service><service name="tar_scm">
                 <param name="url">git://github.com/openSUSE/obs-service-tar_scm.git</param>
-              <param name="changesrevision">fa1750b7f620aee1f85304514daf712f18bb035b</param></service></servicedata>
\ No newline at end of file
+              <param name="changesrevision">af556cadb955aa9872293ea8d738d60f065e592c</param></service></servicedata>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/obs-service-tar_scm-0.7.0.1497870887.fa1750b.tar.gz b/obs-service-tar_scm-0.7.0.1497870887.fa1750b.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 16250b3..0000000
--- a/obs-service-tar_scm-0.7.0.1497870887.fa1750b.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:646c3ca0c218e3c50fa971e1bc87233ba0262103d51778dc83e08aee91b91ee0
-size 51608
diff --git a/obs-service-tar_scm-0.8.0.1499787575.2419460.tar.gz b/obs-service-tar_scm-0.8.0.1499787575.2419460.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cc54310
--- /dev/null
+++ b/obs-service-tar_scm-0.8.0.1499787575.2419460.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:2969942d1a1e49c4aa6f26d6997acfbe2926709cdf19519f9ffcedb3eae6567d
+size 61172
diff --git a/obs-service-tar_scm.changes b/obs-service-tar_scm.changes
index a7f86b5..5a30ea8 100644
--- a/obs-service-tar_scm.changes
+++ b/obs-service-tar_scm.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,40 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Jul 12 05:58:08 UTC 2017 - opensuse-packaging@opensuse.org
+
+- Update to version 0.8.0.1499787575.2419460:
+  * [test] refactor of fake classes
+  * [bugfix] fix UnboundLocalError: local variable 'parent_tag'
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Jul 11 15:59:10 UTC 2017 - opensuse-packaging@opensuse.org
+
+- Update to version 0.8.0.1499787575.2419460:
+  * [dist] changed to %py_compile in spec file
+  * [bugfix] fixes issue #173
+  * [bugfix] Decoupled self.scm from class name in TarSCM/scm/*
+  * [lint] make tests/unittestcases.py flake8 ready
+  * [lint] more fixes for pylint readiness
+  * [lint] refactor unittestcases.py
+  * [test] increase cov for TarSCM.archive from 61% to 92%
+  * [doc] added comment to --use-obs-scm
+  * [test] refactor of fake classes
+  * [bugfix] fix UnboundLocalError: local variable 'parent_tag'
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Jul  9 11:08:37 UTC 2017 - adrian@suse.de
+
+- hotfix runtime of obs_scm
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sat Jul 01 09:44:17 UTC 2017 - opensuse-packaging@opensuse.org
+
+- Update to version 0.8.0.1498846582.8799787:
+  * fix for gh issue #169
+  * new version placeholder for empty version string
+  * fix for bzr locale problem in testsuite
+  * pylint and flake8 in testsuite for better code quality
+  * code cleanup to be more pylint and flake8 compatible
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Jun 19 11:16:11 UTC 2017 - adrian@suse.de
 
diff --git a/obs-service-tar_scm.spec b/obs-service-tar_scm.spec
index f785ef0..68481b1 100644
--- a/obs-service-tar_scm.spec
+++ b/obs-service-tar_scm.spec
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@
 %bcond_without obs_scm_testsuite
 
 Name:           obs-service-tar_scm
-%define version_unconverted 0.7.0.1497870887.fa1750b
-Version:        0.7.0.1497870887.fa1750b
+%define version_unconverted 0.8.0.1499787575.2419460
+Version:        0.8.0.1499787575.2419460
 Release:        0
 Summary:        An OBS source service: create tar ball from svn/git/hg
 License:        GPL-2.0+
@@ -135,12 +135,14 @@ resources and packages them.
 %setup -q -n obs-service-tar_scm-%version
 
 %build
+%py_compile %{buildroot}
 
 %install
 make install DESTDIR="%{buildroot}" PREFIX="%{_prefix}" SYSCFG="%{_sysconfdir}"
 
 %if %{with obs_scm_testsuite}
 %if 0%{?suse_version} >= 1220
+
 %check
 # No need to run PEP8 tests here; that would require a potentially
 # brittle BuildRequires: python-pep8, and any style issues are already