diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b08abea9b3..48a1ec89d6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ Lot's of improvements this release! Outstanding items:
 - Sidecar exposed data from Prometheus can be now limited to given `min-time` (e.g 3h only).
 - Numerous Thanos Receive improvements.
 
+Make sure you check out Prometheus 2.13.0 as well. New release drastically improves usage and resource consumption of
+both Prometheus and sidecar with Thanos: https://prometheus.io/blog/2019/10/10/remote-read-meets-streaming/
+
 ### Added
 
 - [#1619](https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/pull/1619) Thanos sidecar allows to limit min time range for data it exposes from Prometheus.
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index a3df0a6959..f8d71478f5 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.8.0
+0.8.0-dev