diff --git a/pocl-1.6.tar.gz b/pocl-1.6.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 6b49132..0000000
--- a/pocl-1.6.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:b0a4c0c056371b6f0db726b88fbb76bbee94948fb2abd4dbc8d958f7c42f766c
-size 1595212
diff --git a/pocl-1.8.tar.gz b/pocl-1.8.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..76b5485
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pocl-1.8.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:0f63377ae1826e16e90038fc8e7f65029be4ff6f9b059f6907174b5c0d1f8ab2
+size 1614545
diff --git a/pocl.changes b/pocl.changes
index 6d48dd5..cabf46f 100644
--- a/pocl.changes
+++ b/pocl.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,18 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sat Oct 30 11:37:16 UTC 2021 - Martin Hauke <mardnh@gmx.de>
+
+- Update to version 1.8
+  * Support for Clang/LLVM 13
+  * Improved debugging support with Valgrind, LTTNG
+  * Improved support for SPIR/SPIR-V on CUDA
+- Update to version 1.7
+  * Support for Clang/LLVM 12
+  * Improved support for cross-compiling
+  * Improved support for SPIR-V binaries when using CPU device
+  * Implemented OpenCL 3.0 features: clGetDeviceInfo queries
+    + CL_DEVICE_ATOMIC_MEMORY_CAPABILITIES (Minimal implementation)
+    + CL_DEVICE_ATOMIC_FENCE_CAPABILITIES (Minimal implementation)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Dec 25 14:30:16 UTC 2020 - Martin Hauke <mardnh@gmx.de>
 
diff --git a/pocl.spec b/pocl.spec
index 5d3d4d6..cdb9747 100644
--- a/pocl.spec
+++ b/pocl.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package pocl
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2020 SUSE LLC
+# Copyright (c) 2021 SUSE LLC
 # Copyright (c) 2014 Guillaume GARDET <guillaume@opensuse.org>
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@
 #
 
 
-%define sover  2.6.0
+%define sover  2.8.0
 Name:           pocl
-Version:        1.6
+Version:        1.8
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Portable Computing Language - an OpenCL implementation
 # The whole code is under MIT
@@ -31,8 +31,7 @@ URL:            http://portablecl.org/
 Source0:        https://github.com/pocl/pocl/archive/v%{version}.tar.gz#/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 Source99:       pocl-rpmlintrc
 Patch0:         link_against_libclang-cpp_so.patch
-BuildConflicts: clang-devel >= 12
-BuildRequires:  clang-devel >= 6
+BuildRequires:  clang-devel
 BuildRequires:  cmake
 BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
 BuildRequires:  ninja