diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index f6bb4ea904..74105a5f05 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
-4.1.7
+4.1.8
 Merged from 4.0:
  * Fix text containing "/*" being interpreted as multiline comment in cqlsh (CASSANDRA-17667)
  * Fix indexing of a frozen collection that is the clustering key and reversed (CASSANDRA-19889)
  * Emit error when altering a table with non-frozen UDTs with nested non-frozen collections the same way as done upon table creation (CASSANDRA-19925)
+
+
+4.1.7
+Merged from 4.0:
  * Safer handling of out-of-range tokens (CASSANDRA-13704)
  * Fix memory leak in BTree.FastBuilder (CASSANDRA-19785)
  * Fix millisecond and microsecond precision for commit log replay (CASSANDRA-19448)
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 84bb68e1ef..a66f01222e 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
     <property name="debuglevel" value="source,lines,vars"/>
 
     <!-- default version and SCM information -->
-    <property name="base.version" value="4.1.7"/>
+    <property name="base.version" value="4.1.8"/>
     <property name="scm.connection" value="scm:https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra.git"/>
     <property name="scm.developerConnection" value="scm:https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra.git"/>
     <property name="scm.url" value="https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git"/>