diff --git a/python-python-rapidjson.changes b/python-python-rapidjson.changes
index b2db535..63fd29d 100644
--- a/python-python-rapidjson.changes
+++ b/python-python-rapidjson.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Oct  6 22:46:58 UTC 2022 - Yogalakshmi Arunachalam <yarunachalam@suse.com>
+
+- Update to version 1.8 (2022-07-07)
+  Fix problem on macOS explicitly requiring C++11, thanks to agate-pris (issue #166)
+
+- Update to version 1.7 (2022-07-06)
+  Use current master version of rapidjson
+  Update the test suite to work on Pyston, thanks to Kevin Modzelewski (PR #161)
+
+- Update to version 1.6 (2022-02-19)
+  Fix memory leak when using end_array (issue #160) 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Jan 13 23:07:04 UTC 2022 - Ben Greiner <code@bnavigator.de>
 
diff --git a/python-python-rapidjson.spec b/python-python-rapidjson.spec
index bf9d60a..a86fa35 100644
--- a/python-python-rapidjson.spec
+++ b/python-python-rapidjson.spec
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 # check git submodule and update devel:libraries:c_c++/rapidjson
 %define rjversion 1.1.0+git20211015.4d6cb081
 Name:           python-python-rapidjson
-Version:        1.5
+Version:        1.8
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Python wrapper around rapidjson
 License:        MIT
diff --git a/python-rapidjson-1.5.tar.gz b/python-rapidjson-1.5.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 41dc8f1..0000000
--- a/python-rapidjson-1.5.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:1d3cc08f5afaf5fbb4eeae901ab58b85b106b098cf11f1f426384180e1560fa0
-size 1051423
diff --git a/python-rapidjson-1.8.tar.gz b/python-rapidjson-1.8.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d91f842
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python-rapidjson-1.8.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:2529a0d6db4461146fedc212fe4af5e94342f4161c01934702386fc715aa2e8d
+size 1052033