<groupId>org.onap.aai</groupId>
     <artifactId>sparky-be</artifactId>
-    <version>1.7.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.8.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <packaging>pom</packaging>
     <name>aai-sparky-be</name>
 
 
        <parent>
          <groupId>org.onap.aai</groupId>
          <artifactId>sparky-be</artifactId>
-         <version>1.7.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+         <version>1.8.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
        </parent>
 
        <groupId>org.onap.aai.sparky-be</groupId>
        <artifactId>sparkybe-onap-application</artifactId>
-       <version>1.7.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+       <version>1.8.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
        <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
     <properties>
                <dependency>
                        <groupId>org.onap.aai.sparky-be</groupId>
                        <artifactId>sparkybe-onap-service</artifactId>
-                       <version>1.7.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+                       <version>1.8.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
                </dependency>
 
 
 
        <parent>
          <groupId>org.onap.aai</groupId>
          <artifactId>sparky-be</artifactId>
-         <version>1.7.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+         <version>1.8.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
        </parent>
 
        <groupId>org.onap.aai.sparky-be</groupId>
        <artifactId>sparkybe-onap-service</artifactId>
-       <version>1.7.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+       <version>1.8.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
        <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
        <properties>
 
 # because they are used in Jenkins, whose plug-in doesn't support
 
 major=1
-minor=7
-patch=1
+minor=8
+patch=0
 
 base_version=${major}.${minor}.${patch}