diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
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--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,60 @@
 # Release Notes
 
+## Version 1.10.0-beta.0 - 2020-04-20
+
+Improvements:
+* faster containerd start by preloading images [#7793](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/7793)
+* Add fish completion support [#7777](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/7777)
+* Behavior change: start with no arguments uses existing cluster config [#7449](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/7449)
+* conformance: add --wait=all, reduce quirks [#7716](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/7716)
+* Upgrade minimum supported k8s version to v1.12 [#7723](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/7723)
+* Add default CNI network for running wth podman [#7754](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/7754)
+* Behavior change: fallback to alternate drivers on failure [#7389](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/7389)
+* Add registry addon feature for docker on mac/windows [#7603](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/7603)
+* Check node pressure & new option "node_ready" for --wait flag [#7752](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/7752)
+* docker driver: Add Service & Tunnel features to windows   [#7739](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/7739)
+* Add master node/worker node type to `minikube status` [#7586](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/7586)
+* add new wait component apps_running [#7460](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/7460)
+* none: Add support for OpenRC init (Google CloudShell) [#7539](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/7539)
+* Upgrade falco-probe module to version 0.21.0 [#7436](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/7436)
+
+Bug Fixes:
+* Fix multinode cluster creation for VM drivers [#7700](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/7700)
+* tunnel: Fix resolver file permissions, add DNS forwarding test [#7753](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/7753)
+* unconfine apparmor for kic [#7658](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/7658)
+* Fix `minikube delete` output nodename missing with KIC driver [#7553](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/7553)
+* Respect driver.FlagDefaults even if --extra-config is set [#7509](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/7509)
+* remove kic overlay network for docker-runtime [#7425](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/7425)
+
+
+Huge thank you for this release towards our contributors:
+
+- Alonyb
+- Anders F Björklund
+- Anshul Sirur
+- Balint Pato
+- Batuhan Apaydın
+- Brad Walker
+- Frank Schwichtenberg
+- Kenta Iso
+- Medya Ghazizadeh
+- Michael Vorburger ⛑️
+- Pablo Caderno
+- Prasad Katti
+- Priya Wadhwa
+- Radoslaw Smigielski
+- Ruben Baez
+- Sharif Elgamal
+- Thomas Strömberg
+- Vikky Omkar
+- ZouYu
+- gorbondiga
+- loftkun
+- nestoralonso
+- remraz
+- sayboras
+- tomocy
+
 ## Version 1.9.2 - 2020-04-04
 
 Minor improvements:
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 3f19d30891..88fd2de9a9 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 ?= 9
-VERSION_BUILD ?= 2
+VERSION_MINOR ?= 10
+VERSION_BUILD ?= 0-beta.0
 RAW_VERSION=$(VERSION_MAJOR).$(VERSION_MINOR).$(VERSION_BUILD)
 VERSION ?= v$(RAW_VERSION)