diff --git a/contrib/citext/Makefile b/contrib/citext/Makefile
index b9b3713f537..fc990607bf2 100644
--- a/contrib/citext/Makefile
+++ b/contrib/citext/Makefile
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ MODULES = citext
 
 EXTENSION = citext
 DATA = citext--1.4.sql \
+	citext--1.7--1.8.sql \
 	citext--1.6--1.7.sql \
 	citext--1.5--1.6.sql \
 	citext--1.4--1.5.sql \
diff --git a/contrib/citext/citext--1.7--1.8.sql b/contrib/citext/citext--1.7--1.8.sql
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a490736a179
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/citext/citext--1.7--1.8.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+/* contrib/citext/citext--1.7--1.8.sql */
+
+-- complain if script is sourced in psql, rather than via ALTER EXTENSION
+\echo Use "ALTER EXTENSION citext UPDATE TO '1.8'" to load this file. \quit
+
+CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION regexp_match(string citext, pattern citext) RETURNS TEXT[]
+LANGUAGE SQL IMMUTABLE STRICT PARALLEL SAFE
+RETURN pg_catalog.regexp_match( $1::text, $2::text, 'i' );
+
+CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION regexp_match(string citext, pattern citext, flags text) RETURNS TEXT[]
+LANGUAGE SQL IMMUTABLE STRICT PARALLEL SAFE
+RETURN pg_catalog.regexp_match( $1::text, $2::text, CASE WHEN pg_catalog.strpos($3, 'c') = 0 THEN  $3 || 'i' ELSE $3 END );
+
+CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION regexp_matches(string citext, pattern citext) RETURNS SETOF TEXT[]
+LANGUAGE SQL IMMUTABLE STRICT PARALLEL SAFE ROWS 1
+RETURN pg_catalog.regexp_matches( $1::text, $2::text, 'i' );
+
+CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION regexp_matches(string citext, pattern citext, flags text) RETURNS SETOF TEXT[]
+LANGUAGE SQL IMMUTABLE STRICT PARALLEL SAFE ROWS 10
+RETURN pg_catalog.regexp_matches( $1::text, $2::text, CASE WHEN pg_catalog.strpos($3, 'c') = 0 THEN  $3 || 'i' ELSE $3 END );
+
+CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION regexp_replace(string citext, pattern citext, replacement text) returns TEXT
+LANGUAGE SQL IMMUTABLE STRICT PARALLEL SAFE
+RETURN pg_catalog.regexp_replace( $1::text, $2::text, $3, 'i');
+
+CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION regexp_replace(string citext, pattern citext, replacement text, flags text) returns TEXT
+LANGUAGE SQL IMMUTABLE STRICT PARALLEL SAFE
+RETURN pg_catalog.regexp_replace( $1::text, $2::text, $3, CASE WHEN pg_catalog.strpos($4, 'c') = 0 THEN  $4 || 'i' ELSE $4 END);
+
+CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION regexp_split_to_array(string citext, pattern citext) RETURNS TEXT[]
+LANGUAGE SQL IMMUTABLE STRICT PARALLEL SAFE
+RETURN pg_catalog.regexp_split_to_array( $1::text, $2::text, 'i' );
+
+CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION regexp_split_to_array(string citext, pattern citext, flags text) RETURNS TEXT[]
+LANGUAGE SQL IMMUTABLE STRICT PARALLEL SAFE
+RETURN pg_catalog.regexp_split_to_array( $1::text, $2::text, CASE WHEN pg_catalog.strpos($3, 'c') = 0 THEN  $3 || 'i' ELSE $3 END );
+
+CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION regexp_split_to_table(string citext, pattern citext) RETURNS SETOF TEXT
+LANGUAGE SQL IMMUTABLE STRICT PARALLEL SAFE
+RETURN pg_catalog.regexp_split_to_table( $1::text, $2::text, 'i' );
+
+CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION regexp_split_to_table(string citext, pattern citext, flags text) RETURNS SETOF TEXT
+LANGUAGE SQL IMMUTABLE STRICT PARALLEL SAFE
+RETURN pg_catalog.regexp_split_to_table( $1::text, $2::text, CASE WHEN pg_catalog.strpos($3, 'c') = 0 THEN  $3 || 'i' ELSE $3 END );
+
+CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION strpos( citext, citext ) RETURNS INT
+LANGUAGE SQL IMMUTABLE STRICT PARALLEL SAFE
+RETURN pg_catalog.strpos( pg_catalog.lower( $1::text ), pg_catalog.lower( $2::text ) );
+
+CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION replace( citext, citext, citext ) RETURNS TEXT
+LANGUAGE SQL IMMUTABLE STRICT PARALLEL SAFE
+RETURN pg_catalog.regexp_replace( $1::text, pg_catalog.regexp_replace($2::text, '([^a-zA-Z_0-9])', E'\\\\\\1', 'g'), $3::text, 'gi' );
+
+CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION split_part( citext, citext, int ) RETURNS TEXT
+LANGUAGE SQL IMMUTABLE STRICT PARALLEL SAFE
+RETURN (pg_catalog.regexp_split_to_array( $1::text, pg_catalog.regexp_replace($2::text, '([^a-zA-Z_0-9])', E'\\\\\\1', 'g'), 'i'))[$3];
+
+CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION translate( citext, citext, text ) RETURNS TEXT
+LANGUAGE SQL IMMUTABLE STRICT PARALLEL SAFE
+RETURN pg_catalog.translate( pg_catalog.translate( $1::text, pg_catalog.lower($2::text), $3), pg_catalog.upper($2::text), $3);
diff --git a/contrib/citext/citext.control b/contrib/citext/citext.control
index f82265b3347..2b0f3fa8407 100644
--- a/contrib/citext/citext.control
+++ b/contrib/citext/citext.control
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # citext extension
 comment = 'data type for case-insensitive character strings'
-default_version = '1.7'
+default_version = '1.8'
 module_pathname = '$libdir/citext'
 relocatable = true
 trusted = true
diff --git a/contrib/citext/meson.build b/contrib/citext/meson.build
index 40cdd0d2f18..ae87445e6a4 100644
--- a/contrib/citext/meson.build
+++ b/contrib/citext/meson.build
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ install_data(
   'citext--1.4--1.5.sql',
   'citext--1.5--1.6.sql',
   'citext--1.6--1.7.sql',
+  'citext--1.7--1.8.sql',
   kwargs: contrib_data_args,
 )