diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 503347c151..20b2a22343 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,72 @@
 # Release Notes
 
+## Version 1.8.0 - 2020-03-06
+
+Exciting new improvements:
+
+* Promote docker driver priority from "experimental" to "fallback" [#6791](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/6791)
+* Add tunnel for docker driver on darwin  [#6460](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/6460)
+* kic on mac: add service cmd support [#6811](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/6811)
+* Add cri-o runtime to kic drivers and improve kic image [#6756](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/6756)
+* add mount feature to kic drivers [#6630](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/6630)
+* Add Korean translation [#6910](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/6910)
+* Add k8s binaries to preloaded tarball [#6870](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/6870)
+* Add lz4 and tar to iso [#6897](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/6897)
+* Add packaging of the falco_probe kernel module [#6560](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/6560)
+* Automatically scale the default memory allocation [#6900](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/6900)
+* Change cgroup driver from cgroupfs to systemd [#6651](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/6651)
+* Preload images into docker volume [#6720](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/6720)
+* Switch --vm-driver parameter to --driver [#6888](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/6888)
+* Unify downloaders, add GitHub and Alibaba ISO fallbacks [#6892](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/6892)
+* Upgrade cni and cni-plugins to spec 0.4.0 [#6784](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/6784)
+* Use preloaded tarball for VMs as well [#6898](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/6898)
+
+* label minikube nodes [#6717](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/6717)
+* Add some Chinese translations [#6813](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/6813)
+* update registry 2.6.1 → 2.7.1 [#6707](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/6707)
+
+Important bug fixes:
+
+* Add systemd patch for handling DHCP router [#6659](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/6659)
+* Docker: handle already in use container name [#6906](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/6906)
+* Fix delete --all if using non default profile [#6875](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/6875)
+* Fix inverted certificate symlink creation logic [#6889](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/6889)
+* Fix native-ssh flag for the ssh command [#6858](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/6858)
+* Fix start for existing profile with different vm-driver [#6828](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/6828)
+* Fix: disabling a disabled addon should not error [#6817](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/6817)
+* Fix: do not change the profile to a none existing profile [#6774](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/6774)
+* Generate fish compatible docker-env hint [#6744](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/6744)
+* Specifying control plane IP in kubeadm config template [#6745](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/6745)
+* hyperv detection: increase timeout from 2s to 8s [#6701](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/6701)
+* kic: fix service list for docker on osx [#6830](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/6830)
+* kic: fix unprivileged port bind tunnel docker for mac [#6833](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/6833)
+* profile list: exit zero even if one profile is not ready [#6882](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/6882)
+* tunnel on docker driver on mac: fix known_hosts issue [#6810](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/6810)
+
+Thank you to everyone who helped with this extraordinary release. We now invite everyone to give the `--driver=docker` option a try!
+
+- Anders Björklund
+- Black-Hole
+- Csongor Halmai
+- Jose Donizetti
+- Keith Schaab
+- Kenta Iso
+- Kevin Pullin
+- Medya Ghazizadeh
+- Naveen Kumar Sangi
+- Nguyen Hai Truong
+- Olivier Lemasle
+- Pierre Ugaz
+- Prasad Katti
+- Priya Wadhwa
+- Sharif Elgamal
+- Song Shukun
+- Tam Mach
+- Thomas Strömberg
+- anencore94
+- sayboras
+- vikkyomkar
+
 ## Version 1.7.3 - 2020-02-20
 
 * Add podman driver [#6515](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/6515)
@@ -42,7 +109,6 @@ Thank you to our wonderful and amazing contributors who contributed to this bug-
 - Tam Mach
 - edge0701
 - go_vargo
-- sayboras
 
 ## Version 1.7.2 - 2020-02-07
 
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 4571aeb5a8..5779d1cde8 100755
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@
 
 # Bump these on release - and please check ISO_VERSION for correctness.
 VERSION_MAJOR ?= 1
-VERSION_MINOR ?= 7
-VERSION_BUILD ?= 3
+VERSION_MINOR ?= 8
+VERSION_BUILD ?= 0
 RAW_VERSION=$(VERSION_MAJOR).$(VERSION_MINOR).${VERSION_BUILD}
 VERSION ?= v$(RAW_VERSION)
 
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ PRELOADED_TARBALL_VERSION ?= $(shell egrep "PreloadVersion =" pkg/minikube/downl
 PRELOADED_VOLUMES_GCS_BUCKET ?= $(shell egrep "PreloadBucket =" pkg/minikube/download/preload.go | cut -d \" -f2)
 
 # Default to .0 for higher cache hit rates, as build increments typically don't require new ISO versions
-ISO_VERSION ?= v$(VERSION_MAJOR).$(VERSION_MINOR).3
+ISO_VERSION ?= v$(VERSION_MAJOR).$(VERSION_MINOR).0
 # Dashes are valid in semver, but not Linux packaging. Use ~ to delimit alpha/beta
 DEB_VERSION ?= $(subst -,~,$(RAW_VERSION))
 RPM_VERSION ?= $(DEB_VERSION)