diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index d4cc1c1..6da9490 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -17,19 +17,17 @@ release:
 # lint:
 # 	flake8 pyiqa/ --count --max-line-length=127 --ignore=W293,W503,W504,E126,E741
 
+# test calibration and forward inference
 test:
 	pytest tests/ -m calibration -v
+	pytest tests/test_metric_general.py::test_forward -v  
 
 test_general:
 	pytest tests/test_metric_general.py::test_cpu_gpu_consistency -v
 
-test_forward:
-	pytest tests/test_metric_general.py::test_forward -v
-
 test_gradient:
 	pytest tests/test_metric_general.py::test_gradient_backward -v
 
-
 test_dataset:
 	pytest tests/test_datasets_general.py -v
 
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 1180819..699c6c6 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.1.7
+0.1.8
diff --git a/docs/ModelCard.md b/docs/ModelCard.md
index 0de6d14..b666727 100644
--- a/docs/ModelCard.md
+++ b/docs/ModelCard.md
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ print(pyiqa.list_models())
 | Task           | Method  | Description                                                                                                                                                                 |
 | -------------- | ------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
 | Face IQA | `topiq_face` | TOPIQ model trained with face IQA dataset (GFIQA) |
-| Underwater IQA | URanker | A ranking-based underwater image quality assessment (UIQA) method, AAAI2023, [Arxiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.06857), [Github](https://github.com/RQ-Wu/UnderwaterRanker) |
+| Underwater IQA | `uranker` | A ranking-based underwater image quality assessment (UIQA) method, AAAI2023, [Arxiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.06857), [Github](https://github.com/RQ-Wu/UnderwaterRanker) |
 
 ## Outputs of Different Metrics 
 **Note: `~` means that the corresponding numeric bound is typical value and not mathematically guaranteed**