diff --git a/asdf.asd b/asdf.asd
index 745085b8371a3f1faccf37432019ac965f601407..623bf8c2e47d7dc0a93aa7de0f7a010d22ff2acc 100644
--- a/asdf.asd
+++ b/asdf.asd
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
   :licence "MIT"
   :description "Another System Definition Facility"
   :long-description "ASDF builds Common Lisp software organized into defined systems."
-  :version "3.0.1.7" ;; to be automatically updated by make bump-version
+  :version "3.0.1.8" ;; to be automatically updated by make bump-version
   :depends-on ()
   #+asdf3 :encoding #+asdf3 :utf-8
   ;; For most purposes, asdf itself specially counts as a builtin system.
diff --git a/header.lisp b/header.lisp
index 04e6ee90af0cd08046e61ade24777f76f9b7010f..303ebb23b9c7bc092f1dadd3e1ece1791e8e7caf 100644
--- a/header.lisp
+++ b/header.lisp
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ;;; -*- mode: Common-Lisp; Base: 10 ; Syntax: ANSI-Common-Lisp -*-
-;;; This is ASDF 3.0.1.7: Another System Definition Facility.
+;;; This is ASDF 3.0.1.8: Another System Definition Facility.
 ;;;
 ;;; Feedback, bug reports, and patches are all welcome:
 ;;; please mail to <asdf-devel@common-lisp.net>.
diff --git a/uiop/image.lisp b/uiop/image.lisp
index c4f1237fc4ff60b3ca2e585f9d0d494538f9ac91..2296ee3dc19bddff493464788b004ef298afd3b7 100644
--- a/uiop/image.lisp
+++ b/uiop/image.lisp
@@ -87,9 +87,7 @@ This is designed to abstract away the implementation specific quit forms."
     "Die in error with some error message"
     (with-safe-io-syntax ()
       (ignore-errors
-       (fresh-line *stderr*)
-       (apply #'format *stderr* format arguments)
-       (format! *stderr* "~&")))
+       (format! *stderr* "~&~?~&" format arguments)))
     (quit code))
 
   (defun raw-print-backtrace (&key (stream *debug-io*) count)
diff --git a/upgrade.lisp b/upgrade.lisp
index 5c53f9607c95e4a51e69e0023964daa2cba63407..b6ff9a2c7754ea4ea7081ac7a58bd77b620f8681 100644
--- a/upgrade.lisp
+++ b/upgrade.lisp
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ You can compare this string with e.g.: (ASDF:VERSION-SATISFIES (ASDF:ASDF-VERSIO
          ;; "3.4.5.67" would be a development version in the official upstream of 3.4.5.
          ;; "3.4.5.0.8" would be your eighth local modification of official release 3.4.5
          ;; "3.4.5.67.8" would be your eighth local modification of development version 3.4.5.67
-         (asdf-version "3.0.1.7")
+         (asdf-version "3.0.1.8")
          (existing-version (asdf-version)))
     (setf *asdf-version* asdf-version)
     (when (and existing-version (not (equal asdf-version existing-version)))
diff --git a/version.lisp-expr b/version.lisp-expr
index bc72624a5116b1bd68281d9631c13742f5cdff8d..a15a5578994fb904f8b8b5f49880b9c233400a90 100644
--- a/version.lisp-expr
+++ b/version.lisp-expr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-"3.0.1.7"
+"3.0.1.8"