diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 9cdd286..53ba41c 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Description: Schedule R scripts/processes with the Windows task scheduler. This
 Authors@R: c(person("Jan", "Wijffels", role = c("aut", "cre", "cph"), email = "jwijffels@bnosac.be"), person("BNOSAC", role = "cph"), person("Oliver", "Belmans", role = c("cph", "aut")))
 Maintainer: Jan Wijffels <jwijffels@bnosac.be>
 License: AGPL-3
-Version: 1.7
+Version: 1.8
 URL: https://github.com/bnosac/taskscheduleR
 OS_type: windows
 Imports:
diff --git a/inst/NEWS b/inst/NEWS
index 3c4ce70..5ef23d8 100644
--- a/inst/NEWS
+++ b/inst/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 Package: taskscheduleR
 ================
 
+Version: 1.8 [2023-07-02]
+- taskscheduler_create gains an extra argument exec_path (issue #101) which allows to change the directory where the script will be executed
+
 Version: 1.7 [2023-01-28]
 - taskscheduler_create gains an extra argument rscript_options (issue #97)