diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 6a36fdb..e88ed99 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
-* Thu Jan 13 2005 Marc Waeckerlin <marc@waeckerlin.org> - mrw-c++-1.6.1 (mrw)
+* Thu Feb 3 2005 Marc Waeckerlin <marc@waeckerlin.org> - mrw-c++-1.8.0 (mrw)
+	- New classes:
+	   - Errno to handle UNIX errno (and to convert it to string)
+	   - unix_error as exception that cares about errno
+	      - with check method and macro to simplify code
+	   - New static methods in Args to simplify access to parameters
+* Thu Jan 13 2005 Marc Waeckerlin <marc@waeckerlin.org> - mrw-c++-1.7.0 (mrw)
 	- Not only an unexpected, but also an uncaught handler is useful...
 	   - added to autostacktracelog4cxx
 	   - added to autostacktracestderr
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index f071343..7a21628 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2005-02-03
+
+Added facilities for handling UNIX C library calls that set variable
+errno in class Errno and in exeption unix_error
+
+New static methods in Args to simplify access to command line
+parameters.
+
 2005-01-07
 
 There is a new configuration file handler to read and write settings
@@ -42,4 +50,5 @@ then not only the executable is loaded, but all shared libraries with
 their offset are parsed from /proc/self/maps.
 
  - no more need for /usr/bin/ldd
- - new functions mrw::readline
\ No newline at end of file
+ - new functions mrw::readline
+ 
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 5be0e4b..87e16c0 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 AC_INIT([mrw/mrw.hpp.in])
 PACKAGENAME=mrw-c++
 m4_define(x_major, 1)
-m4_define(x_minor, 7)
+m4_define(x_minor, 8)
 m4_define(x_least, 0)
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(@PACKAGENAME@, @MAJOR@.@MINOR@.@LEAST@, [marc@waeckerlin.org])