diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b10140f..58ea7bd 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+<a name="v1.8.0-1"></a>
+### v1.8.0-1 (2017-10-27)
+
+#### Features
+
+* **cli**
+  * allow --format json to be used to output spec results in json format to stdout	 ([aa7359a](/../../commit/aa7359a))
+
 <a name="v1.7.0-1"></a>
 ### v1.7.0-1 (2017-10-18)
 
diff --git a/lib/pact/provider_verifier/version.rb b/lib/pact/provider_verifier/version.rb
index 2417e2b..d7110df 100644
--- a/lib/pact/provider_verifier/version.rb
+++ b/lib/pact/provider_verifier/version.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 module Pact
   module ProviderVerifier
-    VERSION = "1.7.0"
+    VERSION = "1.8.0"
   end
 end