diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index e757211..487989f 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name = crudini
-version = 0.7
+version = 0.8
 
 all:
 	help2man -n "manipulate ini files" -o crudini.1 -N ./crudini-help
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 5ee6749..105f136 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,19 @@
 crudini NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
+* Noteworthy changes in release 0.8 (2016-11-23)
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+  crudini now handles parameters starting with "rem".
+  Previously an entry such as "remote = 1" would be ignored.
+
+** New features
+
+  Support mercurial config files by treating lines starting
+  with '%' as comments, thus ignoring mercurial '%include'
+  and '%unset' directives.
+
+
 * Noteworthy changes in release 0.7 (2015-06-14)
 
 ** Bug fixes
diff --git a/crudini b/crudini
index d4ccb65..c4a1afc 100755
--- a/crudini
+++ b/crudini
@@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ Options:
             if o in ('--help',):
                 self.usage(0)
             elif o in ('--version',):
-                print 'crudini 0.7'
+                print 'crudini 0.8'
                 sys.exit(0)
             elif o in ('--verbose',):
                 self.verbose = True
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ae4e143..35e9773 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ def read(fname):
 
 setup(
     name="crudini",
-    version="0.7",
+    version="0.8",
     author="Pádraig Brady",
     author_email="P@draigBrady.com",
     description=("A utility for manipulating ini files"),