diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index 2904145e5..d1c10eb8d 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -3,6 +3,19 @@
 History
 =======
 
+1.1.8 (2023-03-22)
+------------------
+
+Improvements:
+- Improved date parsing for Chinese (#1148)
+- Improved date parsing for Czech (#1151)
+- Reorder language by popularity (#1152)
+- Fix leak of memory in cache (#1140)
+- Add support for "\d units later" (#1154)
+- Move modification in CLDR data to yaml (#1153)
+- Add support to use timezone via settings to get PREFER_DATES_FROM result (#1155)
+
+
 1.1.7 (2023-02-02)
 ------------------
 
diff --git a/dateparser/__init__.py b/dateparser/__init__.py
index 35df4da2d..98e1d0f86 100644
--- a/dateparser/__init__.py
+++ b/dateparser/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-__version__ = '1.1.7'
+__version__ = '1.1.8'
 
 from .date import DateDataParser
 from .conf import apply_settings