diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 8c39da13b..11e9291a3 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ linux-2.6 (2.6.28-1~experimental.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * [ppc] BAYCOM_PAR, BAYCOM_EPP.
   * [x86_64] set NR_CPUS to 512. (closes: #491309)
   * [686-bigmem] set modular XEN_FBDEV_FRONTEND.
+  * Newer Standards-Version 3.8.0 without changes.
 
   [ Martin Michlmayr ]
   * [mips/r4k-ip22, mips/sb1-bcm91250a] Don't build in ISO9660.
diff --git a/debian/templates/control.source.in b/debian/templates/control.source.in
index 1f9d189ed..6acf0891d 100644
--- a/debian/templates/control.source.in
+++ b/debian/templates/control.source.in
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Section: devel
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-kernel@lists.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>, Frederik Schüler <fs@debian.org>, maximilian attems <maks@debian.org>
-Standards-Version: 3.7.3.0
+Standards-Version: 3.8.0
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.1.0), module-init-tools, dpkg-dev (>= 1.10.23), sparc-utils [sparc], kernel-package (>= 10.063), python
 Build-Depends-Indep: bzip2, findutils (>= 4.2.12), python-central, xmlto
 XS-Python-Version: current