diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 917fc259..2e5f8022 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ Repository: **<git+https://github.com/vladmandic/human.git>**
 
 ### **HEAD -> main** 2021/04/25 mandic00@live.com
 
+- major update for 1.8 release candidate
 
 ### **origin/main** 2021/04/25 mandic00@live.com
 
diff --git a/TODO.md b/TODO.md
index 74783ed8..d2b11643 100644
--- a/TODO.md
+++ b/TODO.md
@@ -34,6 +34,3 @@ Build:
 - Build NodeJS deliverables in non-minified form
 
 ### TBD
-
-- Remove modelPaths
-- NodeJS Exception handling
diff --git a/demo/face3d.js b/demo/face3d.js
index 08a883bb..bad50750 100644
--- a/demo/face3d.js
+++ b/demo/face3d.js
@@ -162,6 +162,13 @@ async function setupCamera() {
 }
 
 async function main() {
+  window.addEventListener('unhandledrejection', (evt) => {
+    // eslint-disable-next-line no-console
+    console.error(evt.reason || evt);
+    document.getElementById('log').innerHTML = evt?.reason?.message || evt?.reason || evt;
+    evt.preventDefault();
+  });
+
   await human.load();
   const video = await setupCamera();
   if (video) {
diff --git a/demo/facematch.html b/demo/facematch.html
index 6cc16653..381a4187 100644
--- a/demo/facematch.html
+++ b/demo/facematch.html
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
         </div>
         <span id="desc" style="visibility: hidden; font-size: 0.4rem;"></span><br>
       </div>
-      <div style="height: 10px"></div>
+      <div id="list" style="height: 10px"></div>
       Extracted Faces - click on a face to sort by similarity and get a known face match:<br>
       <div id="faces"></div>
   </div>
diff --git a/demo/facematch.js b/demo/facematch.js
index 7d30acf9..ced4bf54 100644
--- a/demo/facematch.js
+++ b/demo/facematch.js
@@ -168,6 +168,13 @@ async function createDB() {
 }
 
 async function main() {
+  window.addEventListener('unhandledrejection', (evt) => {
+    // eslint-disable-next-line no-console
+    console.error(evt.reason || evt);
+    document.getElementById('list').innerHTML = evt?.reason?.message || evt?.reason || evt;
+    evt.preventDefault();
+  });
+
   // pre-load human models
   await human.load();
 
diff --git a/demo/index.js b/demo/index.js
index e6ee6dd8..71f5633b 100644
--- a/demo/index.js
+++ b/demo/index.js
@@ -588,6 +588,14 @@ async function drawWarmup(res) {
 }
 
 async function main() {
+  window.addEventListener('unhandledrejection', (evt) => {
+    // eslint-disable-next-line no-console
+    console.error(evt.reason || evt);
+    document.getElementById('log').innerHTML = evt?.reason?.message || evt?.reason || evt;
+    status('exception error');
+    evt.preventDefault();
+  });
+
   log('demo starting ...');
 
   // parse url search params
diff --git a/server/build.log b/server/build.log
index eb25ee99..9539f027 100644
--- a/server/build.log
+++ b/server/build.log
@@ -321,3 +321,20 @@
 2021-04-25 14:09:17 INFO:  Generate types: ["src/human.ts"] 
 2021-04-25 14:09:21 INFO:  Update Change log: ["/home/vlado/dev/human/CHANGELOG.md"] 
 2021-04-25 14:09:21 INFO:  Generate TypeDocs: ["src/human.ts"] 
+2021-04-25 14:28:38 INFO:  @vladmandic/human version 1.8.0 
+2021-04-25 14:28:38 INFO:  User: vlado Platform: linux Arch: x64 Node: v16.0.0 
+2021-04-25 14:28:38 INFO:  Build: file startup all type: production config: {"minifyWhitespace":true,"minifyIdentifiers":true,"minifySyntax":true} 
+2021-04-25 14:28:38 STATE: Build for: node type: tfjs: {"imports":1,"importBytes":39,"outputBytes":696,"outputFiles":"dist/tfjs.esm.js"} 
+2021-04-25 14:28:38 STATE: Build for: node type: node: {"imports":35,"importBytes":514853,"outputBytes":474171,"outputFiles":"dist/human.node.js"} 
+2021-04-25 14:28:38 STATE: Build for: nodeGPU type: tfjs: {"imports":1,"importBytes":43,"outputBytes":700,"outputFiles":"dist/tfjs.esm.js"} 
+2021-04-25 14:28:38 STATE: Build for: nodeGPU type: node: {"imports":35,"importBytes":514857,"outputBytes":474175,"outputFiles":"dist/human.node-gpu.js"} 
+2021-04-25 14:28:38 STATE: Build for: nodeWASM type: tfjs: {"imports":1,"importBytes":81,"outputBytes":746,"outputFiles":"dist/tfjs.esm.js"} 
+2021-04-25 14:28:38 STATE: Build for: nodeWASM type: node: {"imports":35,"importBytes":514903,"outputBytes":474225,"outputFiles":"dist/human.node-wasm.js"} 
+2021-04-25 14:28:38 STATE: Build for: browserNoBundle type: tfjs: {"imports":1,"importBytes":2488,"outputBytes":1394,"outputFiles":"dist/tfjs.esm.js"} 
+2021-04-25 14:28:39 STATE: Build for: browserNoBundle type: esm: {"imports":35,"importBytes":515551,"outputBytes":295025,"outputFiles":"dist/human.esm-nobundle.js"} 
+2021-04-25 14:28:39 STATE: Build for: browserBundle type: tfjs: {"modules":1267,"moduleBytes":4085087,"imports":7,"importBytes":2488,"outputBytes":1101728,"outputFiles":"dist/tfjs.esm.js"} 
+2021-04-25 14:28:40 STATE: Build for: browserBundle type: iife: {"imports":35,"importBytes":1615885,"outputBytes":1393158,"outputFiles":"dist/human.js"} 
+2021-04-25 14:28:40 STATE: Build for: browserBundle type: esm: {"imports":35,"importBytes":1615885,"outputBytes":1393116,"outputFiles":"dist/human.esm.js"} 
+2021-04-25 14:28:40 INFO:  Generate types: ["src/human.ts"] 
+2021-04-25 14:28:45 INFO:  Update Change log: ["/home/vlado/dev/human/CHANGELOG.md"] 
+2021-04-25 14:28:45 INFO:  Generate TypeDocs: ["src/human.ts"] 
diff --git a/wiki b/wiki
index 90624448..11c9fd09 160000
--- a/wiki
+++ b/wiki
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 906244487754b61fd24f49fe2db91ea68264137d
+Subproject commit 11c9fd09a38aa5876a13befb41012e8997ba84c9