diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 8d2cad2..082b769 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "udev"
-version = "0.7.0"
+version = "0.8.0"
 authors = ["David Cuddeback <david.cuddeback@gmail.com>", "Victoria Brekenfeld <github@drakulix.de>"]
 description = "libudev bindings for Rust"
 license = "MIT"
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 869305a..ceb128c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Add `udev` as a dependency in `Cargo.toml`:
 
 ```toml
 [dependencies]
-udev = "^0.7.0"
+udev = "^0.8.0"
 ```
 
 If you plan to support operating systems other than Linux, you'll need to add `udev` as a
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ target-specific dependency:
 
 ```toml
 [target.x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.dependencies]
-udev = "^0.7.0"
+udev = "^0.8.0"
 ```
 
 Import the `udev` crate.