diff --git a/gstlal-inspiral/configure.ac b/gstlal-inspiral/configure.ac
index 3aab17504d60f6547ba782dbd8b96f41719190f2..fe5051f806602755171b766db95c31a8299a9321 100644
--- a/gstlal-inspiral/configure.ac
+++ b/gstlal-inspiral/configure.ac
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
#
-AC_INIT([gstlal-inspiral],[1.6.7],[gstlal-discuss@ligo.org],[gstlal-inspiral])
+AC_INIT([gstlal-inspiral],[1.6.8],[gstlal-discuss@ligo.org],[gstlal-inspiral])
AC_COPYRIGHT([Copyright (C) The authors (see source code for details)])
# a file whose existance can be used to use to check that we are in the
# top-level directory of the source tree
diff --git a/gstlal-inspiral/debian/changelog b/gstlal-inspiral/debian/changelog
index 18292a3f6dbf18ed989c35bdeea935dda8caeb5f..838ec34f96f2c567da0bfec27633b1d665a548ee 100644
--- a/gstlal-inspiral/debian/changelog
+++ b/gstlal-inspiral/debian/changelog
@@ -1,8 +1,20 @@
+gstlal-inspiral (1.6.8-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * lloidhandler: aggregate max SNRs from each IFO rather than across ifos -
+ Fixes weird correlations in SNR heat map - addresses request to provide
+ gstlal background for Virgo
+ * gstlal_ll_inspiral_trigger_aggregator: port over to changed topic schema,
+ allow for auth + https
+ * gstlal_ll_inspiral_pipe: add option to turn on auth + https for trigger
+ aggregator
+
+ -- Alexander Pace <alexander.pace@ligo.org> Thu, 08 Aug 2019 08:37:59 -0700
+
gstlal-inspiral (1.6.7-1) unstable; urgency=low
* inspiral.py: make gstlal's pastro the production pastro
- -- Alexander Pace <alexander.pace@ligo.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2019 13:53:03 -0700
+ -- Alexander Pace <alexander.pace@ligo.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2019 13:53:03 -0700
gstlal-inspiral (1.6.6-1) unstable; urgency=low
@@ -16,7 +28,7 @@ gstlal-inspiral (1.6.6-1) unstable; urgency=low
* lloidhandler: truncate ranking data even more since we are still causing
gracedb problems with the new analysis
- -- Alexander Pace <alexander.pace@ligo.org> Thu, 18 Jul 2019 09:19:04 -0700
+ -- Alexander Pace <alexander.pace@ligo.org> Thu, 18 Jul 2019 09:19:04 -0700
gstlal-inspiral (1.6.5-1) unstable; urgency=low
@@ -27,7 +39,7 @@ gstlal-inspiral (1.6.5-1) unstable; urgency=low
* lloidhandler: reduce size of ranking stat to gracedb
* gstlal_ll_inspiral_pipe fixes
- -- Alexander Pace <alexander.pace@ligo.org> Wed, 05 Jun 2019 09:53:10 -0700
+ -- Alexander Pace <alexander.pace@ligo.org> Wed, 05 Jun 2019 09:53:10 -0700
gstlal-inspiral (1.6.4-1) unstable; urgency=low
@@ -43,7 +55,7 @@ gstlal-inspiral (1.6.4-1) unstable; urgency=low
* Revert "normalize the background only using values at likelihood ratios
greater than the threshold"
- -- Alexander Pace <alexander.pace@ligo.org> Thu, 28 Mar 2019 07:23:36 -0700
+ -- Alexander Pace <alexander.pace@ligo.org> Thu, 28 Mar 2019 07:23:36 -0700
gstlal-inspiral (1.6.3-1) unstable; urgency=low
@@ -53,7 +65,7 @@ gstlal-inspiral (1.6.3-1) unstable; urgency=low
* cbc_template_fir: multiple changes
* Bug fixes and performance improvements
- -- Alexander Pace <alexander.pace@ligo.org> Sun, 17 Mar 2019 09:55:37 -0700
+ -- Alexander Pace <alexander.pace@ligo.org> Sun, 17 Mar 2019 09:55:37 -0700
gstlal-inspiral (1.6.2-1) unstable; urgency=low