diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index ec264ff117f59c8f1f74a7bbf4d3acdc55b5d6b4..5430d20cade7042a118b7eb6ae842d1ed1712e14 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # Rocksdb Change Log
 ## Unreleased
+
+## 7.10.0 (01/23/2023)
 ### Behavior changes
 * Make best-efforts recovery verify SST unique ID before Version construction (#10962)
 * Introduce `epoch_number` and sort L0 files by `epoch_number` instead of `largest_seqno`. `epoch_number` represents the order of a file being flushed or ingested/imported. Compaction output file will be assigned with the minimum `epoch_number` among input files'. For L0, larger `epoch_number` indicates newer L0 file.
diff --git a/include/rocksdb/version.h b/include/rocksdb/version.h
index 2111241757c37749e71b8a141eb9b7ba6fcaae55..ac6be04a9ba8d783611481bfd89fd5a00d7336dc 100644
--- a/include/rocksdb/version.h
+++ b/include/rocksdb/version.h
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@
 
 // NOTE: in 'main' development branch, this should be the *next*
 // minor or major version number planned for release.
-#define ROCKSDB_MAJOR 7
-#define ROCKSDB_MINOR 10
+#define ROCKSDB_MAJOR 8
+#define ROCKSDB_MINOR 0
 #define ROCKSDB_PATCH 0
 
 // Do not use these. We made the mistake of declaring macros starting with
diff --git a/tools/check_format_compatible.sh b/tools/check_format_compatible.sh
index e7efd4f319121ab2c98a20f299aa4ca3afa997fd..d73f7dcbb6d462e46cd0fe0e95caba6753e37de4 100755
--- a/tools/check_format_compatible.sh
+++ b/tools/check_format_compatible.sh
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ EOF
 
 # To check for DB forward compatibility with loading options (old version
 # reading data from new), as well as backward compatibility
-declare -a db_forward_with_options_refs=("6.27.fb" "6.28.fb" "6.29.fb" "7.0.fb" "7.1.fb" "7.2.fb" "7.3.fb" "7.4.fb" "7.5.fb" "7.6.fb" "7.7.fb" "7.8.fb" "7.9.fb")
+declare -a db_forward_with_options_refs=("6.27.fb" "6.28.fb" "6.29.fb" "7.0.fb" "7.1.fb" "7.2.fb" "7.3.fb" "7.4.fb" "7.5.fb" "7.6.fb" "7.7.fb" "7.8.fb" "7.9.fb" "7.10.fb")
 # To check for DB forward compatibility without loading options (in addition
 # to the "with loading options" set), as well as backward compatibility
 declare -a db_forward_no_options_refs=() # N/A at the moment