diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index 81d5bf88e5..05d9d130fc 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-## v1.8.0 (2021-02-26)
+## v1.8 (2021-02-26)
 
 Thank you to pydantic's sponsors:
 @jorgecarleitao, @BCarley, @chdsbd, @tiangolo, @matin, @linusg, @kevinalh, @koxudaxi, @timdrijvers, @mkeen, @meadsteve, 
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index ac69ec138b..411ce48277 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 The MIT License (MIT)
 
-Copyright (c) 2017, 2018, 2019 Samuel Colvin and other contributors
+Copyright (c) 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Samuel Colvin and other contributors
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal