diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 46a845ccf..0b1e97320 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## v18.04.1: (Maintenance Release)
+
+
 ## v18.04: Logical Volume Snapshot/Clone, iSCSI Initiator, Bdev QoS, VPP Userspace TCP/IP
 
 ### vhost
diff --git a/include/spdk/version.h b/include/spdk/version.h
index 6b061337c..422bdb4dc 100644
--- a/include/spdk/version.h
+++ b/include/spdk/version.h
@@ -54,12 +54,12 @@
  * Patch level is incremented on maintenance branch releases and reset to 0 for each
  * new major.minor release.
  */
-#define SPDK_VERSION_PATCH	0
+#define SPDK_VERSION_PATCH	1
 
 /**
  * Version string suffix.
  */
-#define SPDK_VERSION_SUFFIX	""
+#define SPDK_VERSION_SUFFIX	"-pre"
 
 /**
  * Single numeric value representing a version number for compile-time comparisons.