diff --git a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/problem_report.md b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/problem_report.md
index 59c0aeb4..e15e519e 100644
--- a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/problem_report.md
+++ b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/problem_report.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ assignees: ''
 
 ---
 
-**Have you checked the FAQ? https://github.com/google/deepvariant/blob/r1.7/docs/FAQ.md**:
+**Have you checked the FAQ? https://github.com/google/deepvariant/blob/r1.8/docs/FAQ.md**:
 
 **Describe the issue:**
 (A clear and concise description of what the issue is.)
diff --git a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/question.md b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/question.md
index 90c5a6fd..0bd811bf 100644
--- a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/question.md
+++ b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/question.md
@@ -7,6 +7,6 @@ assignees: ''
 
 ---
 
-**Have you checked the FAQ? https://github.com/google/deepvariant/blob/r1.7/docs/FAQ.md**:
+**Have you checked the FAQ? https://github.com/google/deepvariant/blob/r1.8/docs/FAQ.md**:
 
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 60de27fa..432e5248 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <img src="docs/images/dv_logo.png" width=50% height=50%>
 
-[![release](https://img.shields.io/badge/release-v1.7-green?logo=github)](https://github.com/google/deepvariant/releases)
+[![release](https://img.shields.io/badge/release-v1.8-green?logo=github)](https://github.com/google/deepvariant/releases)
 [![announcements](https://img.shields.io/badge/announcements-blue)](https://groups.google.com/d/forum/deepvariant-announcements)
 [![blog](https://img.shields.io/badge/blog-orange)](https://goo.gl/deepvariant)
 
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ Please also note:
 We recommend using our Docker solution. The command will look like this:
 
 ```
-BIN_VERSION="1.7.0"
+BIN_VERSION="1.8.0"
 docker run \
   -v "YOUR_INPUT_DIR":"/input" \
   -v "YOUR_OUTPUT_DIR:/output" \
diff --git a/docs/FAQ.md b/docs/FAQ.md
index 4c7d4e82..d5a7c296 100644
--- a/docs/FAQ.md
+++ b/docs/FAQ.md
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ container, you can `ls` inside the container. For example, using the setup shown
 in the README and looking inside the `/input` volume:
 
 ```
-BIN_VERSION="1.7.0"
+BIN_VERSION="1.8.0"
 docker run \
   -v "YOUR_INPUT_DIR":"/input" \
   -v "YOUR_OUTPUT_DIR:/output" \
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ and outside the Docker container.
 ```
 echo $HOME # see what your home directory is first.
 ls $HOME
-BIN_VERSION="1.7.0"
+BIN_VERSION="1.8.0"
 sudo docker run \
   -v "${HOME}":"${HOME}" \
   google/deepvariant:"${BIN_VERSION}" \
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ Since the DeepVariant v0.9 release, we recommend
 "[Best practices for multi-sample variant calling with DeepVariant](https://github.com/google/deepvariant/blob/r0.9/docs/trio-merge-case-study.md)".
 
 For specifically calling on duos or trios, we introduced
-[DeepTrio](https://github.com/google/deepvariant/blob/r1.7/docs/deeptrio-details.md)
+[DeepTrio](https://github.com/google/deepvariant/blob/r1.8/docs/deeptrio-details.md)
 in v1.1.
 
 ## Why am I seeing "CUDA_ERROR_NOT_INITIALIZED: initialization error" while running on GPU?
diff --git a/docs/runtime-by-region.md b/docs/runtime-by-region.md
index 8a607f28..c8281083 100644
--- a/docs/runtime-by-region.md
+++ b/docs/runtime-by-region.md
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ make_examples runtime by region data. Continuing from the quick start, it looks
 like this:
 
 ```bash
-BIN_VERSION="1.7.0" # Only available in v1.1+.
+BIN_VERSION="1.8.0" # Only available in v1.1+.
 docker run \
   -v "INPUT_DIR":"/input" \
   -v "OUTPUT_DIR:/output" \
diff --git a/docs/show-examples.md b/docs/show-examples.md
index 0f026265..3ed8013f 100644
--- a/docs/show-examples.md
+++ b/docs/show-examples.md
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ Once you have a make_examples output tfrecord file, then you can run
 INPUT_DIR="${PWD}/quickstart-testdata"
 OUTPUT_DIR="${PWD}/quickstart-output"
 
-BIN_VERSION="1.7.0"  # show_examples is available only in version 1.0.0 and later.
+BIN_VERSION="1.8.0"  # show_examples is available only in version 1.0.0 and later.
 sudo docker run \
   -v "${INPUT_DIR}":"/input" \
   -v "${OUTPUT_DIR}":"/output" \