diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8f44d60..26425b5 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-## 1.18.0
+## 1.18.0 - 2016-07-27
 
 ### Core library changes
 
diff --git a/tools/VERSION b/tools/VERSION
index f591344..8dbdf92 100644
--- a/tools/VERSION
+++ b/tools/VERSION
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 #  * Making cherry-picks to stable channel
 #     - increase PATCH by 1
 #
-CHANNEL be
+CHANNEL dev
 MAJOR 1
 MINOR 19
 PATCH 0