diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index db0abf87..dba58be0 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,54 @@
+CHANGES FROM 1.7 to 1.8, 26 March 2013
+
+Incompatible Changes
+====================
+
+* layout redo/undo has been removed.
+
+Normal Changes
+==============
+
+* Add halfpage up/down bindings to copy mode.
+* Session choosing fixed to work with unattached sessions.
+* New window options window-status-last-{attr,bg,fg} to denote the last
+  window which was active.
+* Scrolling in copy-mode now scrolls the region without moving the mouse
+  cursor.
+* run-shell learnt '-t' to specify the pane to use when displaying output.
+* Support for middle-click pasting.
+* choose-tree learns '-u' to start uncollapsed.
+* select-window learnt '-T; to toggle to the last window if it's already
+  current.
+* New session option 'assume-paste-time' for pasting text versus key-binding
+  actions.
+* choose-* commands now work outside of an attached client.
+* Aliases are now shown for list-commands command.
+* Status learns about formats.
+* Free-form options can be set with set-option if prepended with an '@'
+  sign.
+* capture-pane learnt '-p' to send to stdout, and '-e' for capturing escape
+  sequences, and '-a' to capture the alternate screen, and '-P' to dump
+  pending output.
+* Many new formats added (client_session, client_last_session, etc.)
+* Control mode, which is a way for a client to send tmux commands.
+  Currently more useful to users of iterm2.
+* resize-pane learnt '-x' and '-y' for absolute pane sizing.
+* Config file loading now reports errors from all files which are loaded via
+  the 'source-file' command.
+* 'copy-pipe' mode command to copy selection and pipe the selection to a
+  command.
+* Changes panes can now emit focus notifications for certain applications
+  which use those.
+* run-shell and if-shell now accept format placeholders.
+* resize-pane learnt '-Z' for zooming a pane temporarily.
+* new-session learnt '-A' to make it behave like attach-session.
+* set-option learnt '-o' to prevent setting an option which is already set.
+* capture-pane and show-options learns '-q' to silence errors.
+* New command 'wait-for' which blocks a client until woken up again.
+* Resizing panes will now reflow the text inside them.
+* Lots and lots of bug fixes, fixing memory-leaks, etc.
+* Various manpage improvements.
+
 CHANGES FROM 1.6 to 1.7, 13 October 2012
 
 * tmux configuration files now support line-continuation with a "\" at the
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 9e060df7..c0ef34c6 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ AC_CHECK_HEADERS(
 )
 
 # Is this a debug build?
-found_debug=yes
+#found_debug=yes
 AC_ARG_ENABLE(
 	debug,
 	AC_HELP_STRING(--enable-debug, create a debug build),