diff --git a/firebase-appdistribution-api/CHANGELOG.md b/firebase-appdistribution-api/CHANGELOG.md
index 528adf32060..049b1d7f260 100644
--- a/firebase-appdistribution-api/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/firebase-appdistribution-api/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # Unreleased
 
+- [changed] Bumped internal dependencies.
+
 # 16.0.0-beta18
 
 - [changed] Bumped internal dependencies.
diff --git a/release.json b/release.json
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index 00000000000..b07d2724076
--- /dev/null
+++ b/release.json
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+{
+    "name": "m180_1",
+    "libraries": [
+        ":firebase-appdistribution",
+        ":firebase-appdistribution-api"
+    ]
+}
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diff --git a/release_report.json b/release_report.json
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index 00000000000..0864e73a09c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/release_report.json
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{
+    "changesByLibraryName": {
+        "firebase-appdistribution": [
+            {
+                "commitId": "aab9a907dd077606a84cbfefa2b6d96224696066",
+                "prId": "8155",
+                "author": "Lee Kellogg",
+                "message": "Use String.format in cases where firebase-vendor plugin transforms hardcoded strings (#8155)\n\nStarting with `16.0.0-beta18`, the vendor plugin is renaming strings in\nthe app distro SDK:\n\n```\n> Task :firebase-appdistribution:releaseVendorTransform\n...\nChanged \".FirebaseAppDistributionFileProvider\" -> \"com.google.firebase.appdistribution.impl..FirebaseAppDistributionFileProvider\"\nChanged \".apk\" -> \"com.google.firebase.appdistribution.impl..apk\"\n...\n```\n\nThis is causing the SDK functionality to fail due to malformed strings:\nhttps://github.com/firebase/firebase-android-sdk/issues/8136\n\nI don't know the root cause, but this does fix the issue.",
+                "commitLink": "https://github.com/firebase/firebase-android-sdk/commit/aab9a907dd077606a84cbfefa2b6d96224696066",
+                "prLink": "https://github.com/firebase/firebase-android-sdk/pull/8155"
+            }
+        ],
+        "firebase-appdistribution-api": []
+    },
+    "changedLibrariesWithNoChangelog": []
+}
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diff --git a/release_report.md b/release_report.md
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index 00000000000..3c57ce51469
--- /dev/null
+++ b/release_report.md
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+# Release Report
+## firebase-appdistribution
+
+* Use String.format in cases where firebase-vendor plugin transforms hardcoded strings (#8155)   
+  [pr](https://github.com/firebase/firebase-android-sdk/pull/8155) [commit](https://github.com/firebase/firebase-android-sdk/commit/aab9a907dd077606a84cbfefa2b6d96224696066)  [Lee Kellogg]
+
+## firebase-appdistribution-api
+
+
+
+## SDKs with changes, but no changelogs