diff --git a/kernel/CHANGES.txt b/kernel/CHANGES.txt
index 14a24b1d9..fd4b461fe 100644
--- a/kernel/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/kernel/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+1.8.M01 (2012-04-26)
+--------------------
+o Byte array properties are handled in a more optimized way, increasing performance by a couple of times at least.
+o Fix for an issue where update of cache when creating a relationship on a very dense node would take longer and longer time.
+o Fix for an issue where a recovery would sometimes fail with it reporting that a start record already had been injected.
+
 1.7 (2012-04-19)
 ----------------
 o Moved BatchInserter to a different package.
diff --git a/server/CHANGES.txt b/server/CHANGES.txt
index 3603c4bbf..63779020b 100644
--- a/server/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/server/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+1.8.M01 (2012-04-26)
+--------------------
+o Added streaming to REST API. All representation implementations have been adapted to produce their data lazily.
+o Added HTTP logging.
+
 1.7 (2012-04-18)
 ----------------
 o Added scored index results to REST API