diff --git a/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF b/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
index 146a18fe8..c48417b06 100644
--- a/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
+++ b/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ Manifest-Version: 1.0
 Bundle-ManifestVersion: 2
 Bundle-Name: Amazon Kinesis Client Library for Java
 Bundle-SymbolicName: com.amazonaws.kinesisclientlibrary;singleton:=true
-Bundle-Version: 1.8.5
+Bundle-Version: 1.8.6
 Bundle-Vendor: Amazon Technologies, Inc
-Bundle-RequiredExecutionEnvironment: JavaSE-1.7
+Bundle-RequiredExecutionEnvironment: JavaSE-1.8
 Require-Bundle: org.apache.commons.codec;bundle-version="1.6",
  org.apache.commons.logging;bundle-version="1.1.3";visibility:=reexport,
  com.fasterxml.jackson.core.jackson-databind;bundle-version="2.5.3",
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8191254aa..ee1b7f78e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -29,6 +29,22 @@ For producer-side developers using the **[Kinesis Producer Library (KPL)][kinesi
 To make it easier for developers to write record processors in other languages, we have implemented a Java based daemon, called MultiLangDaemon that does all the heavy lifting. Our approach has the daemon spawn a sub-process, which in turn runs the record processor, which can be written in any language. The MultiLangDaemon process and the record processor sub-process communicate with each other over [STDIN and STDOUT using a defined protocol][multi-lang-protocol]. There will be a one to one correspondence amongst record processors, child processes, and shards. For Python developers specifically, we have abstracted these implementation details away and [expose an interface][kclpy] that enables you to focus on writing record processing logic in Python. This approach enables KCL to be language agnostic, while providing identical features and similar parallel processing model across all languages.
 
 ## Release Notes
+### Release 1.8.6
+* Add prefetching of records from Kinesis  
+  Prefetching will retrieve and queue additional records from Kinesis while the application is processing existing records.  
+  Prefetching can be enabled by setting [`dataFetchingStrategy`](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client/blob/master/src/main/java/com/amazonaws/services/kinesis/clientlibrary/lib/worker/KinesisClientLibConfiguration.java#L1317) to `PREFETCH_CACHED`. Once enabled an additional fetching thread will be started to retrieve records from Kinesis. Retrieved records will be held in a queue until the application is ready to process them.  
+  Pre-fetching supports the following configuration values:  
+  
+  | Name | Default | Description |
+  | ---- | ------- | ----------- |
+  | [`dataFetchingStrategy`](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client/blob/master/src/main/java/com/amazonaws/services/kinesis/clientlibrary/lib/worker/KinesisClientLibConfiguration.java#L1317) | `DEFAULT` | Which data fetching strategy to use |
+  | [`maxPendingProcessRecordsInput`](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client/blob/master/src/main/java/com/amazonaws/services/kinesis/clientlibrary/lib/worker/KinesisClientLibConfiguration.java#L1296) | 3 | The maximum number of process records input that can be queued |
+  | [`maxCacheByteSize`](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client/blob/master/src/main/java/com/amazonaws/services/kinesis/clientlibrary/lib/worker/KinesisClientLibConfiguration.java#L1307) | 8 MiB | The maximum number of bytes that can be queued |
+  | [`maxRecordsCount`](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client/blob/master/src/main/java/com/amazonaws/services/kinesis/clientlibrary/lib/worker/KinesisClientLibConfiguration.java#L1326) | 30,000 | The maximum number of records that can be queued |
+  | [`idleMillisBetweenCalls`](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client/blob/master/src/main/java/com/amazonaws/services/kinesis/clientlibrary/lib/worker/KinesisClientLibConfiguration.java#L1353) | 1,500 ms | The amount of time to wait between calls to Kinesis |
+  
+  * [PR #246](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client/pull/246)
+
 ### Release 1.8.5 (September 26, 2017)
 * Only advance the shard iterator for the accepted response.  
   This fixes a race condition in the `KinesisDataFetcher` when it's being used to make asynchronous requests.  The shard iterator is now only advanced when the retriever calls `DataFetcherResult#accept()`.
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 3e9b2c68f..46bba4cad 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
   <artifactId>amazon-kinesis-client</artifactId>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
   <name>Amazon Kinesis Client Library for Java</name>
-  <version>1.8.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>1.8.6</version>
   <description>The Amazon Kinesis Client Library for Java enables Java developers to easily consume and process data
     from Amazon Kinesis.
   </description>
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/amazonaws/services/kinesis/clientlibrary/lib/worker/KinesisClientLibConfiguration.java b/src/main/java/com/amazonaws/services/kinesis/clientlibrary/lib/worker/KinesisClientLibConfiguration.java
index b0ac6bfd9..da2610bef 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/amazonaws/services/kinesis/clientlibrary/lib/worker/KinesisClientLibConfiguration.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/amazonaws/services/kinesis/clientlibrary/lib/worker/KinesisClientLibConfiguration.java
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ public class KinesisClientLibConfiguration {
     /**
      * User agent set when Amazon Kinesis Client Library makes AWS requests.
      */
-    public static final String KINESIS_CLIENT_LIB_USER_AGENT = "amazon-kinesis-client-library-java-1.8.5";
+    public static final String KINESIS_CLIENT_LIB_USER_AGENT = "amazon-kinesis-client-library-java-1.8.6";
 
     /**
      * KCL will validate client provided sequence numbers with a call to Amazon Kinesis before checkpointing for calls