diff --git a/jOOQ-release/release/template/RELEASENOTES.txt b/jOOQ-release/release/template/RELEASENOTES.txt
index 4cce65cfb5..6792653fa5 100644
--- a/jOOQ-release/release/template/RELEASENOTES.txt
+++ b/jOOQ-release/release/template/RELEASENOTES.txt
@@ -11,6 +11,41 @@ For a text version, see
 http://www.jooq.org/inc/RELEASENOTES.txt
 
 
+Version 3.11.8 - December 21, 2018
+================================================================================
+
+This is a 3.11 patch release with bug fixes
+
+
+Features and Improvements
+-------------------------
+#8094 - Add support for result less statements in MockFileDatabase
+
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+#8002 - NullPointerException in QueryPartList.removeNulls with Java 11 and immutable collections
+#8018 - Oracle TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE default binding truncates microseconds
+#8043 - ALTER TABLE .. RENAME TO .. should fully qualify tables if supported by the database
+#8049 - Incorrect Javadoc entry for Field#containsIgnoreCase
+#8053 - Code generation fails on JDK9+ with javax.xml.bind.UnmarshalException: unexpected element when using external <configurationFile/>
+#8059 - UDT data types are unqualified in PostgreSQL, when there is more than one UDT data type per schema
+#8064 - Bad inlining of Double.NaN in HSQLDB
+#8066 - HSQLDB implementation of Field.add(Interval) cannot handle fractional seconds
+#8068 - Code generator doesn't generate length on VARCHAR(n) ARRAY types
+#8071 - Cannot create tables with VARCHAR(n) ARRAY types in HSQLDB
+#8073 - Code generator fails on PostgreSQL 9.3.9 because of unsupported not in predicate on row value expressions
+#8088 - Companion object for routine classes generated by ScalaGenerator cause java.lang.IllegalAccessError at runtime
+#8117 - XMLDatabase should not distinguish between empty catalog and absent catalog
+#8119 - NullPointerException in XMLDatabase, when no schemas could be loaded
+#8120 - Resolve relative paths in target directory in Maven plugin
+#8121 - java.lang.NoSuchMethodException when calling createARRAY on JBoss WrappedConnectionJDK8
+#8127 - java.lang.ClassCastException: java.base/java.lang.String cannot be cast to java.base/java.util.UUID when using UUID types with MockFileDatabase
+#8132 - returningResult() returns generated record type when returning only the identity
+#8133 - ClassCastException in H2 when calling returningResult() to fetch an identity when the generated record does not implement Record1
+
+
+
 Version 3.11.7 - November 5, 2018
 ================================================================================
 
@@ -53,6 +88,7 @@ Bug Fixes
 #7983 - Unnecessary alias generation in parser for derived tables
 #7984 - Discover JPA annotations also from overridden super class methods
 #7988 - Significant time spent in OffsetDateTime.parse() when reading OffsetDateTime fields
+#8002 - NullPointerException in QueryPartList.removeNulls with Java 11 and immutable collections
 #8007 - INSERT .. RETURNING produces records with wrong attached Configuration
 #8009 - DAO methods do not profit from reflection cache when Settings.returnRecordToPojo = true