diff --git a/legacy/embryo/ChangeLog b/legacy/embryo/ChangeLog
index d1fd4238b1..2611b8421f 100644
--- a/legacy/embryo/ChangeLog
+++ b/legacy/embryo/ChangeLog
@@ -44,3 +44,8 @@
 2012-08-30  Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)
 
         1.7.0 release
+
+2012-09-12  Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)
+
+        * Fix windows utf/whitespace parsing issue in windows
+
diff --git a/legacy/embryo/NEWS b/legacy/embryo/NEWS
index 5ad6be75f4..5b0201b898 100644
--- a/legacy/embryo/NEWS
+++ b/legacy/embryo/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,11 @@
-Embryo 1.7.0
+Embryo 1.8.0
+
+Changes since Embryo 1.7.0:
+---------------------------
+
+Fixes:
+
+    * Fix windows utf8 shitepsace parse issue.
 
 Changes since Embryo 1.2.0:
 ---------------------------