diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index c7d032e301a..f0f92839412 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -6,9 +6,26 @@ Rasa Change Log
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 This project adheres to `Semantic Versioning`_ starting with version 1.0.
 
-[Unreleased 1.1.8] - `master`_
+
+[Unreleased 1.1.9] - `master`_
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
+Added
+-----
+
+Changed
+-------
+
+Removed
+-------
+
+Fixed
+-----
+
+
+[1.1.8] - 2019-07-25
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
 Added
 -----
 - ``TrainingFileImporter`` interface to support customizing the process of loading
@@ -21,10 +38,6 @@ Changed
   or a policy ensemble
 - Update pytype to ``2019.7.11``
 
-Removed
--------
-
-
 Fixed
 -----
 - interactive learning bug where reverted user utterances were dumped to training data
diff --git a/rasa/core/train.py b/rasa/core/train.py
index ceccd08ef9f..f2c374ed09e 100644
--- a/rasa/core/train.py
+++ b/rasa/core/train.py
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ async def train_comparison_models(
                         file_importer,
                         train_path,
                         policy_config=policy_config,
-                        exclusion_percentage=current_run,
+                        exclusion_percentage=percentage,
                         kwargs=kwargs,
                         dump_stories=dump_stories,
                     )
diff --git a/rasa/version.py b/rasa/version.py
index bf7882637e0..3d30a5ffbec 100644
--- a/rasa/version.py
+++ b/rasa/version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "1.1.7"
+__version__ = "1.1.8"