diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index a193139c..928401b4 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.16)
 # also find the version number here. generate_auto_job also reads the
 # version from here.
 project(qpdf
-  VERSION 11.7.1
+  VERSION 11.8.0
   LANGUAGES C CXX)
 
 # Enable correct rpath handling for MacOSX
diff --git a/include/qpdf/DLL.h b/include/qpdf/DLL.h
index 03102ec4..61d1f4c8 100644
--- a/include/qpdf/DLL.h
+++ b/include/qpdf/DLL.h
@@ -25,13 +25,13 @@
 
 /* The first version of qpdf to include the version constants is 10.6.0. */
 #define QPDF_MAJOR_VERSION 11
-#define QPDF_MINOR_VERSION 7
-#define QPDF_PATCH_VERSION 1
+#define QPDF_MINOR_VERSION 8
+#define QPDF_PATCH_VERSION 0
 
 #ifdef QPDF_FUTURE
-# define QPDF_VERSION "11.7.1+future"
+# define QPDF_VERSION "11.8.0+future"
 #else
-# define QPDF_VERSION "11.7.1"
+# define QPDF_VERSION "11.8.0"
 #endif
 
 /*
diff --git a/job.sums b/job.sums
index 2f7f2bd6..1f06fdd3 100644
--- a/job.sums
+++ b/job.sums
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Generated by generate_auto_job
-CMakeLists.txt e06f9a99ac9f9c8e20d9b178cd1a69b75ee098489963bfd255e9bef5ef42e0b4
+CMakeLists.txt 464730c7d24a7667d3c3ef0758512760f29542084e936de738efa1660589edfe
 generate_auto_job f64733b79dcee5a0e3e8ccc6976448e8ddf0e8b6529987a66a7d3ab2ebc10a86
 include/qpdf/auto_job_c_att.hh 4c2b171ea00531db54720bf49a43f8b34481586ae7fb6cbf225099ee42bc5bb4
 include/qpdf/auto_job_c_copy_att.hh 50609012bff14fd82f0649185940d617d05d530cdc522185c7f3920a561ccb42
@@ -16,5 +16,5 @@ libqpdf/qpdf/auto_job_json_init.hh 9c3839877ab3b15a47e92086f0b5616da33fd4970538c
 libqpdf/qpdf/auto_job_schema.hh a882939b202d48ad1c0751c094f671ad7aad0fc04c3a4446ad83675db365c8a2
 manual/_ext/qpdf.py 6add6321666031d55ed4aedf7c00e5662bba856dfcd66ccb526563bffefbb580
 manual/cli.rst 38ff5e0e3a6bc01eab0b7d9f3fd22bfe4ec90ad5dcd48ba8be8412177c7bbf61
-manual/qpdf.1 c89ac263ffb697c7c1f6233fa54bd6403a455a989b550f78868c284947d707a3
+manual/qpdf.1 cd335812d450ca83be3c7fe165299d3454b26b4999295f671d57e6b24f6ea7a1
 manual/qpdf.1.in 436ecc85d45c4c9e2dbd1725fb7f0177fb627179469f114561adf3cb6cbb677b
diff --git a/manual/qpdf.1 b/manual/qpdf.1
index 44ee538a..d82fe416 100644
--- a/manual/qpdf.1
+++ b/manual/qpdf.1
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 .\" Edits will be automatically overwritten if the build is
 .\" run in maintainer mode.
 .\"
-.TH QPDF "1" "" "qpdf version 11.7.1" "User Commands"
+.TH QPDF "1" "" "qpdf version 11.8.0" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
 qpdf \- PDF transformation software
 .SH SYNOPSIS