diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 2f2a635ec..8bd8077c8 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -34,10 +34,10 @@
   <property name="name" value="ant"/>
   <!-- this is the groupId of ant in the Maven repository -->
   <property name="groupid" value="org.apache.ant"/>
-  <property name="project.version" value="1.7.1alpha"/>
+  <property name="project.version" value="1.8.0alpha"/>
   <!-- pom.version is used when doing a distribution and must match with what is checked in under src/etc/poms -->
-  <property name="pom.version" value="1.7.1-SNAPSHOT"/>
-  <property name="manifest-version" value="1.7.1"/>
+  <property name="pom.version" value="1.8.0-SNAPSHOT"/>
+  <property name="manifest-version" value="1.8.0"/>
   <property name="bootstrap.jar" value="ant-bootstrap.jar"/>
 
   <property name="ant.package" value="org/apache/tools/ant"/>
diff --git a/docs/manual/cover.html b/docs/manual/cover.html
index def0241ab..c52bd9567 100644
--- a/docs/manual/cover.html
+++ b/docs/manual/cover.html
@@ -19,14 +19,14 @@
 <head>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheets/style.css">
-<title>Apache Ant 1.7.1 User Manual</title>
+<title>Apache Ant 1.8.0 User Manual</title>
 </head>
 
 <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
 <div align="center"> 
   <h1><img src="../images/ant_logo_large.gif" width="190" height="120"></h1>
   <h1>Apache Ant 1.7.1 Manual</h1>
-  <p align="left">This is the manual for version 1.7.1 of 
+  <p align="left">This is the manual for version 1.8.0 of 
   <a target="_top" href="http://ant.apache.org/index.html">Apache Ant</a>. 
     If your version 
     of Ant (as verified with <tt>ant -version</tt>) is older or newer than this 
