diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b4d47804..0e4c48f6 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ def read(fname):
 
 setup(
     name='mammoth',
-    version='1.7.1',
+    version='1.8.0',
     description='Convert Word documents from docx to simple and clean HTML and Markdown',
     long_description=read("README"),
     author='Michael Williamson',