diff --git a/plzip-1.8-rc1.tar.gz b/plzip-1.8-rc1.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 63489da..0000000
--- a/plzip-1.8-rc1.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:061fdab7adc1fac57cfbdfe3f3cb776c9c83a11e760f332c4cccf727bb3bd9f3
-size 71704
diff --git a/plzip-1.8.tar.gz b/plzip-1.8.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0936129
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plzip-1.8.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:edafae3c15142ac0ebd84c2231ff81da4f68db58359a737e750f2780686c3612
+size 72365
diff --git a/plzip-1.8.tar.gz.sig b/plzip-1.8.tar.gz.sig
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4c2232c
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diff --git a/plzip.changes b/plzip.changes
index bdb71b7..c926445 100644
--- a/plzip.changes
+++ b/plzip.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Jan  7 21:18:14 UTC 2019 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+
+- Update to new upstream release 1.8
+  * No functional changes; just a version bump.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Dec 14 11:59:01 UTC 2018 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
 
diff --git a/plzip.spec b/plzip.spec
index 9a6eb5e..4c0af79 100644
--- a/plzip.spec
+++ b/plzip.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package plzip
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2018 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
+# Copyright (c) 2019 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
 # Copyright (c) 2012 Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser@opensuse.org>
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
@@ -18,15 +18,14 @@
 
 
 Name:           plzip
-Version:        1.8~rc1
+Version:        1.8
 Release:        0
-%define xversion	1.8-rc1
 Summary:        Parallel LZMA Data Compressor
 License:        GPL-2.0-or-later
 Group:          Productivity/Archiving/Compression
 URL:            http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/plzip.html
-Source:         http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip/%name-%xversion.tar.gz
-#Source2:        http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip/%name-%version.tar.gz.sig
+Source:         http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip/%name-%version.tar.gz
+Source2:        http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip/%name-%version.tar.gz.sig
 Source3:        %name.keyring
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 BuildRequires:  c++_compiler
@@ -47,7 +46,7 @@ compresses better than bzip2, which makes it well suited for software
 distribution and data archiving.
 
 %prep
-%autosetup -n %name-%xversion
+%autosetup -p1
 
 %build
 mkdir build