From 44e476fd9eef8b52d899f54011f857907c1ce567 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Chen <67451029+cheqianh@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 16:41:05 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Prepare new release 1.8.0

---
 README.md | 2 +-
 pom.xml   | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b8b6a280df..f218f99764 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ dependency into your project's `pom.xml`:
 <dependency>
   <groupId>com.amazon.ion</groupId>
   <artifactId>ion-java</artifactId>
-  <version>1.7.1</version>
+  <version>1.8.0</version>
 </dependency>
 ```
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 1e9097b005..c6731ce47e 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>com.amazon.ion</groupId>
   <artifactId>ion-java</artifactId>
-  <version>1.7.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>1.8.0</version>
   <packaging>bundle</packaging>
 
   <name>${project.groupId}:${project.artifactId}</name>