diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0b1e97320..58735c208 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,7 +1,15 @@
 # Changelog
 
-## v18.04.1: (Maintenance Release)
+## v18.04.1: Maintenance Release
 
+SPDK v18.04.1 is a bug fix and maintenance release.
+
+A bug in the blobstore recovery code for thin provisioned blobs has been fixed
+(GitHub issue #291).
+
+The `env_dpdk` environment layer has been updated to work with DPDK 18.05.
+
+The NVMe and bdev `fio_plugin` examples have been updated to work with FIO 3.7.
 
 ## v18.04: Logical Volume Snapshot/Clone, iSCSI Initiator, Bdev QoS, VPP Userspace TCP/IP
 
diff --git a/include/spdk/version.h b/include/spdk/version.h
index 422bdb4dc..715760d42 100644
--- a/include/spdk/version.h
+++ b/include/spdk/version.h
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
 /**
  * Version string suffix.
  */
-#define SPDK_VERSION_SUFFIX	"-pre"
+#define SPDK_VERSION_SUFFIX	""
 
 /**
  * Single numeric value representing a version number for compile-time comparisons.