diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 42e0e1f..fd4aa58 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -29,3 +29,6 @@
 /Support-having-several-debuginfo-search-dirs-for-a-b.patch
 /Add-a-fail-no-debug-info-to-abidiff.patch
 /libabigail-1.6.tar.gz
+/libabigail-1.7.tar.gz
+/libabigail-1.8.tar.gz
+/libabigail-1.8.1.tar.gz
diff --git a/libabigail.spec b/libabigail.spec
index 50669a7..972368b 100644
--- a/libabigail.spec
+++ b/libabigail.spec
@@ -2,13 +2,20 @@
 %global tarball_name %{name}-%{version}
 
 Name: libabigail
-Version: 1.6
-Release: 4%{?dist}
+Version: 1.8.1
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 Summary: Set of ABI analysis tools
 
 License: LGPLv3+
 URL: https://sourceware.org/libabigail/
 Source0: http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/libabigail/%{tarball_name}.tar.gz
+# The tarball is built from the content of the git repository by doing:
+# git clone git://sourceware.org/git/libabigail.git --branch libabigail-1.8
+# cd libabigail
+# git checkout lbiabigail-1.8.1
+# autoreconf -i
+# configure
+# make dist
 
 BuildRequires: gcc-c++
 BuildRequires: libtool
@@ -21,6 +28,7 @@ BuildRequires: dos2unix
 BuildRequires: dpkg
 BuildRequires: wget
 BuildRequires: koji
+BuildRequires: python3-koji
 
 %description
 The libabigail package comprises seven command line utilities:
@@ -115,7 +123,7 @@ pathfix.py -i %{__python3} -pn %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/fedabipkgdiff
 %endif
 
 %check
-time make %{?_smp_mflags} check || (cat tests/test-suite.log && exit 2)
+time make %{?_smp_mflags} check check-self-compare || (cat tests/test-suite.log && exit 2)
 
 if test $? -ne 0; then
   cat tests/tests-suite.log
@@ -155,6 +163,34 @@ fi
 %endif
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Jan 27 2021 Dodji Seketeli <dodji@redhat.com> - 1.8.1-1
+- Update to upstream fixes up to libabigail-1.8.1
+  This encompasses this fixes, compared to the last 1.8 release:
+      ir: Add better comments to types_have_similar_structure
+      mainpage: Update web page for 1.8 release
+      Bug 26992 - Try harder to resolve declaration-only classes
+      Bug 27204 -  potential loss of some aliased ELF function symbols
+      Ignore duplicated functions and those not associated with ELF symbols
+      Bug 27236 - Pointer comparison wrongly fails because of typedef change
+      Bug 27233 - fedabipkgdiff fails on package gnupg2 from Fedora 33
+      Bug 27232 - fedabipkgdiff fails on gawk from Fedora 33
+      dwarf-reader: Support fast DW_FORM_line_strp string comparison
+      gen-changelog.py: Update call to subprocess.Popen & cleanup
+      Bug 27255 - fedabipkgdiff fails on nfs-utils on Fedora 33
+      abidiff: support --dump-diff-tree with --leaf-changes-only
+      ir: Arrays are indirect types for type structure similarity purposes
+      Add qualifier / typedef / array / pointer test
+      abg-ir: Optimize calls to std::string::find() for a single char.
+      abipkgdiff: Address operator precedence warning
+
+* Tue Dec  1 2020 Dodji Seketeli <dodji@redhat.com> - 1.8-1
+- Update to upstream 1.8
+- Add 'make check-self-compare' to the regression testing
+- Add BuildRequire 'python3-koji' for the general package build
+
+* Tue Feb 25 2020 Dodji Seketeli <dodji@redhat.com> - 1.7-1
+- Update to upstream 1.7
+
 * Mon Feb 17 2020 Sinny Kumari <skumari@fedoraproject.org> - 1.6-4
 - Add koji as BuildRequires
 - Fixes: RHBZ#1799575
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 7c255d6..f444193 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (libabigail-1.6.tar.gz) = 2ba775bd836b53265dae60e66065fc2106e7f633e890cc70b6abacb8426e04ec0b7b38593c21336f5785cf5e4eb8d110fb15ce63124cddc59f660f31c7b25b3c
+SHA512 (libabigail-1.8.1.tar.gz) = 9039f614bc14680ae30e26e2f7af296aa7ebcec1c3bb7f27c414e21e338b7081ff46602e65b5201528869c0222f203553666e65a0ab5229e54556ac59d2030ef