diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index e3844d4e8e..e9932d9617 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-gitlab (11.8.0-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+gitlab (11.8.0-1) experimental; urgency=medium
 
   [ Dmitry Smirnov ]
   * Moved list of files from Files-Excluded to "clean" file to avoid error
@@ -10,7 +10,21 @@ gitlab (11.8.0-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * Update script in debian/upstream-file-count-check.sh to identify
     new/removed files
 
- -- Sruthi Chandran <srud@disroot.org>  Fri, 15 Feb 2019 22:19:10 +0530
+  [ Pirate Praveen ]
+  * Refresh patches with fuzz
+  * Update dependency on ruby-rack, ruby-pg, ruby-fog*, ruby-truncato,
+    ruby-nokogiri, ruby-acts-as-taggable-on, ruby-kubeclient,
+    ruby-gitaly-proto, ruby-omniauth-azure-oauth2, ruby-google-api-client,
+    ruby-sidekiq-cron, ruby-oauth2, ruby-googleauth
+  * Remove tracing group from Gemfile
+  * Replace rails 5.2 patch with rails 5.1 patch from upstream
+  * Remove monkey patch not needed with rails 5.2
+  * Embed rails 5.1 temporarily till gitlab supports rails 5.2
+  * Create target file of secrets.yml symbolic link
+  * Set GEM_PATH for using embedded gems
+  * Tighten dependency on libjs-uglify
+
+ -- Pirate Praveen <praveen@debian.org>  Tue, 12 Mar 2019 21:29:55 +0530
 
 gitlab (11.5.10+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=medium