diff --git a/Include/modsupport.h b/Include/modsupport.h
index 442394c..91951bd 100644
--- a/Include/modsupport.h
+++ b/Include/modsupport.h
@@ -61,8 +61,8 @@
 extern int PyArg_VaParse Py_PROTO((PyObject *, char *, va_list));
 extern PyObject *Py_VaBuildValue Py_PROTO((char *, va_list));
 
-#define PYTHON_API_VERSION 1007
-#define PYTHON_API_STRING "1007"
+#define PYTHON_API_VERSION 1008
+#define PYTHON_API_STRING "1008"
 /* The API version is maintained (independently from the Python version)
    so we can detect mismatches between the interpreter and dynamically
    loaded modules.  These are diagnosticised by an error message but
@@ -76,7 +76,9 @@
    Please add a line or two to the top of this log for each API
    version change:
 
-   18-Jan-1997	GvR	string interning and other speedups
+   3-Dec-1998	GvR	1008	Python 1.5.2
+
+   18-Jan-1997	GvR	1007	string interning and other speedups
 
    11-Oct-1996	GvR	renamed Py_Ellipses to Py_Ellipsis :-(