diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 07c657275..7f38f4c27 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ linux-2.6 (2.6.32-7) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
 
   [ maximilian attems]
   * [x86] Disable deprecated X86_CPU_DEBUG, causes boot failures.
+  * Newer Standards-Version 3.8.4 without changes.
 
   [ Ben Hutchings ]
   * [sparc] ftrace: Fix build-time architecture detection (Closes: #568025)
diff --git a/debian/templates/control.source.in b/debian/templates/control.source.in
index 5c807a79c..fa5bd5768 100644
--- a/debian/templates/control.source.in
+++ b/debian/templates/control.source.in
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Section: kernel
 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>, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
-Standards-Version: 3.8.3
+Standards-Version: 3.8.4
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 7), cpio, module-init-tools, python, lzma [armel]
 Build-Depends-Indep: bzip2, python-support, xmlto
 Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/kernel/dists/sid/linux-2.6/