diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6f5e65f..0fe640c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -30,16 +30,16 @@ Under tab "Available Plugins", select "WS Security for SOAP", then click "Apply
 ### Via Package from [JMeter-Plugins.org](https://jmeter-plugins.org/)
 
 1. Remove wss4j-\*.jar and xmlsec-\*.jar from JMeter's lib directory (if applicable).
-2. Download and extract the [zip package](https://jmeter-plugins.org/files/packages/tilln-wssecurity-1.7.zip) into JMeter's lib directory.
+2. Download and extract the [zip package](https://jmeter-plugins.org/files/packages/tilln-wssecurity-1.8.zip) into JMeter's lib directory.
 3. Restart JMeter.
 
 ### Via Manual Download
 
-1. Copy the [jmeter-wssecurity jar file](https://github.com/tilln/jmeter-wssecurity/releases/download/1.7/jmeter-wssecurity-1.7.jar) into JMeter's lib/ext directory.
+1. Copy the [jmeter-wssecurity jar file](https://github.com/tilln/jmeter-wssecurity/releases/download/1.8/jmeter-wssecurity-1.8.jar) into JMeter's lib/ext directory.
 2. Copy the following dependencies into JMeter's lib directory:
-	* [org.apache.wss4j / wss4j-ws-security-dom](https://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=org/apache/wss4j/wss4j-ws-security-dom/2.2.2/wss4j-ws-security-dom-2.2.2.jar)
-	* [org.apache.wss4j / wss4j-ws-security-common](https://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=org/apache/wss4j/wss4j-ws-security-common/2.2.2/wss4j-ws-security-common-2.2.2.jar)
-	* [org.apache.santuario / xmlsec](https://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=org/apache/santuario/xmlsec/2.1.2/xmlsec-2.1.2.jar)
+	* [org.apache.wss4j / wss4j-ws-security-dom](https://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=org/apache/wss4j/wss4j-ws-security-dom/2.3.1/wss4j-ws-security-dom-2.3.1.jar)
+	* [org.apache.wss4j / wss4j-ws-security-common](https://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=org/apache/wss4j/wss4j-ws-security-common/2.3.1/wss4j-ws-security-common-2.3.1.jar)
+	* [org.apache.santuario / xmlsec](https://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=org/apache/santuario/xmlsec/2.2.1/xmlsec-2.2.1.jar)
 3. Make sure to remove older versions of the above dependencies from the JMeter lib directory.
 4. Restart JMeter.
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 5529bbb..d1901b8 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     <groupId>nz.co.breakpoint</groupId>
     <artifactId>jmeter-wssecurity</artifactId>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
-    <version>1.8-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.8</version>
     <name>${project.artifactId}</name>
     <description>Apache JMeter plugin for signing, encrypting and decrypting SOAP messages (WS-Security)</description>
     <url>https://github.com/tilln/jmeter-wssecurity</url>