diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 2bf1ca5f549c1a54d2aff9891bea88c940d7d4e6..18efdb9ae67a363598be48f21356657f831557a5 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.1.7
+1.1.8
diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index 812b3ac04da972088ffa9b30ab705842d2e69b78..3b4321c1caec7b945f07b19867e263b7c75be68f 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -1453,3 +1453,18 @@ arch-specific bugs fixed:
 - mips POLLWRNORM and POLLWRBAND macros had wrong values
 - x32 pthread synchronization object type definitions were wrong
 - powerpc minimum signal stack size was insufficient
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+
+
+1.1.8 release notes
+
+bugs fixed:
+- stack-based buffer overflow in inet_pton (CVE-2015-1817)
+- regcomp crash/mem-corruption with illegal bytes after backslash
+- regcomp wrongly allowed backrefs in ER
+- regcomp miscompiled character class brace-repetitions
+- regcomp wrongly processed \0 as an unmatchable backref
+- new FLT_ROUNDS definition failed to work in C++ code
+
+arch-specific bugs fixed:
+- aarch64 was missing max_align_t definition