diff --git a/contrib/debian/changelog b/contrib/debian/changelog
index c400dca73..3157e06b2 100644
--- a/contrib/debian/changelog
+++ b/contrib/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+zcash (v1.0.8+1) jessie; urgency=high
+
+  * 1.0.8-1 release.
+
+ -- Zcash Company <team@z.cash>  Thu, 13 Apr 2017 17:44:23 -0700
+
 zcash (1.0.8) jessie; urgency=medium
 
   * 1.0.8 release.
diff --git a/doc/authors.md b/doc/authors.md
index f9fc63367..03a92cb24 100644
--- a/doc/authors.md
+++ b/doc/authors.md
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 Zcash Contributors
 ==================
 
-Jack Grigg (392)
+Jack Grigg (393)
 Simon Liu (254)
 Sean Bowe (185)
-Daira Hopwood (80)
+Daira Hopwood (83)
 Taylor Hornby (65)
 Wladimir J. van der Laan (58)
 Jonas Schnelli (48)
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Jay Graber (47)
 Kevin Gallagher (38)
 Cory Fields (15)
 Pieter Wuille (14)
-Nathan Wilcox (10)
+Nathan Wilcox (12)
 nomnombtc (9)
 fanquake (5)
 Paige Peterson (5)
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ Daniel Cousens (4)
 lpescher (3)
 Pavel Janík (3)
 Alfie John (3)
+str4d (2)
 paveljanik (2)
 aniemerg (2)
 Scott (2)
diff --git a/doc/release-notes/release-notes-1.0.8-1.md b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-1.0.8-1.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4650f552c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-1.0.8-1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+Daira Hopwood (3):
+      Don't rely on a finite upper bound on fee rate or priority.
+      Simplify JoinSplit priority calculation. refs 1896
+      Add check for JoinSplit priority as calculated by CCoinsViewCache::GetPriority.
+
+Jack Grigg (1):
+      Use a larger -rpcclienttimeout for slow performance measurements
+
+Nathan Wilcox (2):
+      Bump version numbers for v1.0.8-1.
+      Commit the changes from gen-manpages.sh, except manually tweak the version strings.
+
+str4d (2):
+      Update tests to check actual infinity as well as INF_FEERATE
+      Add unit test for security issue 2017-04-11.a
+
diff --git a/doc/release-process.md b/doc/release-process.md
index b4e2a3565..f86e59933 100644
--- a/doc/release-process.md
+++ b/doc/release-process.md
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ Run the release-notes.py script to generate release notes and update authors.md
 
 Add the newly created release notes to the Git repository:
 
-    $ git add doc/release-notes/release-notes-$ZCASH_RELEASE.md
+    $ git add ./doc/authors.md ./doc/release-notes/release-notes-$ZCASH_RELEASE.md
 
 Update the Debian package changelog: