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diff --git a/README b/README
index 42543d1..b9c6099 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ This version is fully compatible with the previous public releases.
 This file is part of bzip2/libbzip2, a program and library for
 lossless, block-sorting data compression.
 
-bzip2/libbzip2 version 1.0.7 of 27 June 2019
-Copyright (C) 1996-2010 Julian Seward <jseward@acm.org>
+bzip2/libbzip2 version 1.0.8 of 13 July 2019
+Copyright (C) 1996-2019 Julian Seward <jseward@acm.org>
 
 Please read the WARNING, DISCLAIMER and PATENTS sections in this file.
 
@@ -193,3 +193,4 @@ Cambridge, UK.
 10 December 2007 (bzip2, version 1.0.5)
  6     Sept 2010 (bzip2, version 1.0.6)
 27     June 2019 (bzip2, version 1.0.7)
+13     July 2019 (bzip2, version 1.0.8)