diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b7fa829c61dd5f912f2187709ba358ea6262cb43..e9f740d36e96271f980996a061314d002ffd8114 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ KleidiAI follows the [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/) specification fo
 
 ## Upcoming Release
 
+## v1.8.0
+
 - New Advanced SIMD micro-kernels:
   - Matrix multiplication (MxN) Micro-kernels of QAI8DX LHS and QSI8CX RHS with F16 output, optimized for FEAT_I8MM and FEAT_DotProd.
   - Matrix multiplication (1xN) Micro-kernels of QAI8DX LHS and QSI8CX RHS with F16 output, optimized for FEAT_DotProd.
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 22d650f41d8ac195417265c897c430ef74b35958..5ed083105bd7b0904bc81984f1c12d5fb9828ad9 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.16)
 
 project(KleidiAI
-    VERSION 1.7.0
+    VERSION 1.8.0
     LANGUAGES C CXX
 )
 
diff --git a/kai/kai_common.h b/kai/kai_common.h
index 6dc71d10eddc0ef0d748945bef275cdf37015527..ab367fb363807b63464ddb19938fed943284bf18 100644
--- a/kai/kai_common.h
+++ b/kai/kai_common.h
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ extern "C" {
 ///
 /// @return Project version as a string literal.
 inline const char* kai_get_version(void) {
-    return "1.7.0";
+    return "1.8.0";
 }
 
 /// KleidiAI data types