diff --git a/tools/VERSION b/tools/VERSION
index b192111..ea7ad41 100644
--- a/tools/VERSION
+++ b/tools/VERSION
@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@
 #  * Making cherry-picks to stable channel
 #     - increase PATCH by 1
 #
-CHANNEL dev
+CHANNEL stable
 MAJOR 1
 MINOR 8
 PATCH 0
-PRERELEASE 4
-PRERELEASE_PATCH 6
+PRERELEASE 0
+PRERELEASE_PATCH 0