diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 190402ad468..c3a53a3cefe 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ Charles J Archer <charles.j.archer@intel.com>
 Chen Zhao <soniczhao@gmail.com>
 Chris Dolan <chrisdolan@google.com>
 Chuck Fossen <chuckf@cray.com>
+Coni Gehler <cgehler@cray.com>
 Dardo D Kleiner <dkleiner@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
 Dave Goodell <dgoodell@cisco.com>
 David Noel <david.noel19@gmail.com>
@@ -95,9 +96,11 @@ Patrick MacArthur <pmacarth@iol.unh.edu>
 Patrick McCormick <patrick.m.mccormick@intel.com>
 Paul Coffman <pcoffman@anl.gov>
 Pavan Balaji <balaji@anl.gov>
+Peter Gottesman <pgottesm@cisco.com>
 Pierre Roux <piroux@cisco.com>
 Prankur Gupta <prankgup@cisco.com>
 Raghu Raja <craghun@amazon.com>
+Raghu Raja <rajachan@users.noreply.github.com>
 Reese Faucette <rfaucett@cisco.com>
 Richard Halkyard <rhalkyard@cray.com>
 Robert Wespetal <wesper@amazon.com>
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 8c812de61fd..aa0de0d2d59 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ dnl
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 
 AC_PREREQ([2.60])
-AC_INIT([libfabric], [1.8.0rc2], [ofiwg@lists.openfabrics.org])
+AC_INIT([libfabric], [1.8.0], [ofiwg@lists.openfabrics.org])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/fabric.c])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(config)
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR(config)
diff --git a/fabtests/configure.ac b/fabtests/configure.ac
index c150cff7b41..c42a57becf0 100644
--- a/fabtests/configure.ac
+++ b/fabtests/configure.ac
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 dnl
 dnl Copyright (c) 2016-2017 Cisco Systems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
-dnl Copyright (c) 2018 Intel Corporation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
+dnl Copyright (c) 2018-2019 Intel Corporation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
 dnl
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 
 AC_PREREQ(2.57)
-AC_INIT([fabtests], [1.8.0rc2], [ofiwg@lists.openfabrics.org])
+AC_INIT([fabtests], [1.8.0], [ofiwg@lists.openfabrics.org])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(config)
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR(config)
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS(config.h)