diff --git a/pugixml-1.7.tar.gz b/pugixml-1.7.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 0fd1b62..0000000
--- a/pugixml-1.7.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:fbe10d46f61d769f7d92a296102e4e2bd3ee16130f11c5b10a1aae590ea1f5ca
-size 354472
diff --git a/pugixml-1.8.tar.gz b/pugixml-1.8.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a324184
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pugixml-1.8.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:8ef26a51c670fbe79a71e9af94df4884d5a4b00a2db38a0608a87c14113b2904
+size 357806
diff --git a/pugixml.changes b/pugixml.changes
index 513a147..c26336c 100644
--- a/pugixml.changes
+++ b/pugixml.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,29 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Feb 16 15:32:17 UTC 2017 - joerg.lorenzen@ki.tng.de
+
+- Update to version 1.8
+  * Specification changes
+    + When printing empty elements, a space is no longer added
+      before / in format_raw mode.
+  * New features
+    + Added parse_embed_pcdata parsing mode in which PCDATA value
+      is stored in the element node if possible (significantly
+      reducing memory consumption for some documents).
+    + Added auto-detection support for Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1)
+      encoding during parsing.
+    + Added format_no_empty_element_tags formatting flag that
+      outputs start/end tags instead of empty element tags for
+      empty elements.
+  * Performance improvements
+    + Minor memory allocation improvements (yielding up to 1%
+      memory savings in some cases).
+  * Compatibility improvements
+    + Fixed compilation issues for Borland C++ 5.4.
+    + Fixed compilation issues for some distributions of MinGW 3.8.
+    + Fixed various Clang/GCC warnings.
+    + Enabled move semantics support for XPath objects for MSVC
+      2010 and above.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Oct 21 09:26:33 UTC 2015 - idonmez@suse.com
 
diff --git a/pugixml.spec b/pugixml.spec
index a3d9250..49b7842 100644
--- a/pugixml.spec
+++ b/pugixml.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package pugixml
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2015 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
+# Copyright (c) 2017 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
 #
 # 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 @@
 
 %define _libname libpugixml1
 Name:           pugixml
-Version:        1.7
+Version:        1.8
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Light-weight C++ XML Processing Library
 License:        MIT
@@ -73,12 +73,10 @@ The library is extremely portable and easy to integrate and use.
 %patch1 -p1
 
 %build
-cd scripts
 %cmake
 make %{?_smp_mflags}
 
 %install
-cd scripts
 %cmake_install
 
 %post -n %{_libname} -p /sbin/ldconfig