diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
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--- a/CHANGELOG.md
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@@ -1,6 +1,22 @@
-## Next release
+## v0.18.0-rc.0 / 2019-07-03
+
+* [CHANGE] Remove quantile labels from Summary metrics. #1921
+* [CHANGE] [OpsGenie] Move from the deprecated `teams` field in the configuration to `responders`. #1863
+* [CHANGE] [ui] Collapse alert groups on the initial view. #1876
+* [CHANGE] [Wechat] Set the default API secret to blank. #1888
+* [CHANGE/BUGFIX] [PagerDuty] Fix embedding of images, the `text` field in the configuration has been renamed to `href`. #1931
+* [ENHANCEMENT] Use persistent HTTP clients. #1904
+* [ENHANCEMENT] Add `alertmanager_cluster_alive_messages_total`, `alertmanager_cluster_peer_info` and `alertmanager_cluster_pings_seconds` metrics. #1941
+* [ENHANCEMENT] [api] Add missing metrics for API v2. #1902
+* [ENHANCEMENT] [Slack] Log error message on retry errors. #1655
+* [ENHANCEMENT] [ui] Allow to create silences from the alerts filter bar. #1911
+* [ENHANCEMENT] [ui] Enable auto resize the textarea fields. #1893
+* [BUGFIX] [amtool] Use scheme, authentication and base path from the URL if present. #1892 #1940
+* [BUGFIX] [amtool] Support filtering alerts by receiver. #1915
+* [BUGFIX] [api] Fix /api/v2/alerts with multiple receivers. #1948
+* [BUGFIX] [PagerDuty] Truncate description to 1024 chars for PagerDuty v1. #1922
+* [BUGFIX] [ui] Add filtering based off of "active" query param. #1879
 
- * [CHANGE] Opsgenie notification now uses official responders notion instead of "teams". Teams field is deprecated now and will fail the config parsing.
 
 ## 0.17.0 / 2019-05-02
 
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
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@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.17.0
+0.18.0-rc.0