diff --git a/changelog/18.0/18.0.0/summary.md b/changelog/18.0/18.0.0/summary.md
index 35ad018b7bc..5f643a1355c 100644
--- a/changelog/18.0/18.0.0/summary.md
+++ b/changelog/18.0/18.0.0/summary.md
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
### Table of Contents
+- **[Known Issues](#known-issues)**
+ - **[VTTablet runs an unnecessary DDL](#sidecardb-issue)**
- **[Major Changes](#major-changes)**
- **[Breaking Changes](#breaking-changes)**
- [Local examples now use etcd v3 storage and API](#local-examples-etcd-v3)
@@ -36,6 +38,15 @@
- **[Durability Policies](#durability-policies)**
- [New Durability Policies](#new-durability-policies)
+## Known Issues
+
+### VTTablet runs an unnecessary DDL
+In this release, with MySQL 8.0 whenever VTTablet's tabletserver goes through initialization, it finds
+a diff in its internal `schemacopy` table and tries to apply a DDL to fix it. The DDL
+is a no-op and this loop of applying the DDL continues to run.
+
+If this problem is encountered, the following PR should be reverted to resolve it - https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/15859.
+
## Major Changes
### Breaking Changes
diff --git a/changelog/18.0/18.0.7/changelog.md b/changelog/18.0/18.0.7/changelog.md
index f9b6fd53bbc..9631e94af4c 100644
--- a/changelog/18.0/18.0.7/changelog.md
+++ b/changelog/18.0/18.0.7/changelog.md
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@
* [release-18.0] bugfix: Allow cross-keyspace joins (#16520) [#16522](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/16522)
### Release
#### General
- * [release-18.0] Bump to `v18.0.7-SNAPSHOT` after the `v18.0.6` release [#16454](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/16454)
### Testing
#### Query Serving
* [release-18.0] Replace ErrorContains checks with Error checks before running upgrade downgrade [#16701](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/16701)
diff --git a/changelog/18.0/18.0.7/release_notes.md b/changelog/18.0/18.0.7/release_notes.md
index 2e48f54ee07..7faeaeeef45 100644
--- a/changelog/18.0/18.0.7/release_notes.md
+++ b/changelog/18.0/18.0.7/release_notes.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
# Release of Vitess v18.0.7
The entire changelog for this release can be found [here](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/blob/main/changelog/18.0/18.0.7/changelog.md).
-The release includes 21 merged Pull Requests.
+The release includes 23 merged Pull Requests.
Thanks to all our contributors: @GuptaManan100, @app/vitess-bot, @frouioui, @shlomi-noach, @vitess-bot
diff --git a/changelog/18.0/18.0.8/changelog.md b/changelog/18.0/18.0.8/changelog.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0558cd04947
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/18.0/18.0.8/changelog.md
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+# Changelog of Vitess v18.0.8
+
+### Bug fixes
+#### Backup and Restore
+ * [release-18.0] Fail fast when builtinbackup fails to restore a single file (#16856) [#16866](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/16866)
+#### Query Serving
+ * [release-18.0] fixes bugs around expression precedence and LIKE (#16934 & #16649) [#16944](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/16944)
+ * [release-18.0] fix issue with aggregation inside of derived tables [#16948](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/16948)
+ * [release-18.0] Planner Bug: Joins inside derived table (#14974) [#16962](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/16962)
+ * [release-18.0] bugfix: add HAVING columns inside derived tables (#16976) [#16977](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/16977)
+ * [release-18.0] Delegate Column Availability Checks to MySQL for Single-Route Queries (#17077) [#17084](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/17084)
+ * bugfix: make sure to split predicates before planning them [#17099](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/17099)
+ * [release-18.0] Bugfix for Panic on Joined Queries with Non-Authoritative Tables in Vitess 19.0 (#17103) [#17115](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/17115)
+#### VTAdmin
+ * [release-18.0] VTAdmin: Fix serve-handler's path-to-regexp dep and add default schema refresh (#16778) [#16782](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/16782)
+#### VTGate
+ * [release-18.0] Fix deadlock between health check and topology watcher (#16995) [#17007](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/17007)
+#### VTTablet
+ * [release-18.0] Fix race in `replicationLagModule` of `go/vt/throttle` (#16078) [#16898](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/16898)
+### Dependencies
+#### Java
+ * [release-18.0] Bump com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java from 3.24.3 to 3.25.5 in /java (#16809) [#16836](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/16836)
+ * [release-18.0] Bump commons-io:commons-io from 2.7 to 2.14.0 in /java (#16889) [#16929](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/16929)
+#### VTAdmin
+ * [release-18.0] VTAdmin: Address security vuln in path-to-regexp node pkg (#16770) [#16771](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/16771)
+### Documentation
+#### Build/CI
+ * [Direct PR] [release-18.0]: Add `sidecardb` known issue [#17096](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/17096)
+### Enhancement
+#### Online DDL
+ * [release-18.0] Improve Schema Engine's TablesWithSize80 query (#17066) [#17088](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/17088)
+### Internal Cleanup
+#### VTAdmin
+ * [release-18.0] VTAdmin: Upgrade deps to address security vulns (#16843) [#16845](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/16845)
+### Regression
+#### Backup and Restore
+ * [release-18.0] Fix unreachable errors when taking a backup (#17062) [#17109](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/17109)
+#### Query Serving
+ * [release-18.0] fix: route engine to handle column truncation for execute after lookup (#16981) [#16983](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/16983)
+ * [release-18.0] Add support for `MultiEqual` opcode for lookup vindexes. (#16975) [#17038](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/17038)
+### Release
+#### General
+ * [release-18.0] Bump to `v18.0.8-SNAPSHOT` after the `v18.0.7` release [#16748](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/16748)
+### Testing
+#### Cluster management
+ * [release-18.0] Flaky test fixes (#16940) [#16957](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/16957)
+
diff --git a/changelog/18.0/18.0.8/release_notes.md b/changelog/18.0/18.0.8/release_notes.md
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+++ b/changelog/18.0/18.0.8/release_notes.md
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# Release of Vitess v18.0.8
+The entire changelog for this release can be found [here](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/blob/main/changelog/18.0/18.0.8/changelog.md).
+
+The release includes 22 merged Pull Requests.
+
+Thanks to all our contributors: @GuptaManan100, @app/vitess-bot, @shlomi-noach, @systay
+
diff --git a/changelog/18.0/README.md b/changelog/18.0/README.md
index 98d6b52589b..5177986e79d 100644
--- a/changelog/18.0/README.md
+++ b/changelog/18.0/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
## v18.0
+* **[18.0.8](18.0.8)**
+ * [Changelog](18.0.8/changelog.md)
+ * [Release Notes](18.0.8/release_notes.md)
+
* **[18.0.7](18.0.7)**
* [Changelog](18.0.7/changelog.md)
* [Release Notes](18.0.7/release_notes.md)