From 005665867d50a4b38e269b6b84156db2f75469a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?P=C3=A9ter=20Szil=C3=A1gyi?= <peterke@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 11:59:12 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] VERSION, params: begin 1.8.0 release cycle

---
 VERSION           | 2 +-
 params/version.go | 8 ++++----
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 661e7aeadf..27f9cd322b 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.7.3
+1.8.0
diff --git a/params/version.go b/params/version.go
index 4fb1d0847a..32d4a2e23c 100644
--- a/params/version.go
+++ b/params/version.go
@@ -21,10 +21,10 @@ import (
 )
 
 const (
-	VersionMajor = 1        // Major version component of the current release
-	VersionMinor = 7        // Minor version component of the current release
-	VersionPatch = 3        // Patch version component of the current release
-	VersionMeta  = "stable" // Version metadata to append to the version string
+	VersionMajor = 1          // Major version component of the current release
+	VersionMinor = 8          // Minor version component of the current release
+	VersionPatch = 0          // Patch version component of the current release
+	VersionMeta  = "unstable" // Version metadata to append to the version string
 )
 
 // Version holds the textual version string.