diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index fa0960b2847..354ee450ddc 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -119,6 +119,18 @@ v 8.8.5
   - Forbid scripting for wiki files
   - Only show notes through JSON on confidential issues that the user has access to
 
+v 8.8.5 (unreleased)
+  - Adds selected branch name to the dropdown toggle
+
+v 8.8.4 (unreleased)
+  - Ensure branch cleanup regardless of whether the GitHub import process succeeds
+  - Fix todos page throwing errors when you have a project pending deletion
+  - Reduce number of SQL queries when rendering user references
+  - Import GitHub repositories respecting the API rate limit
+  - Fix importer for GitHub comments on diff
+  - Disable Webhooks before proceeding with the GitHub import
+  - Fix incremental trace upload API when using multi-byte UTF-8 chars in trace
+
 v 8.8.4
   - Fix LDAP-based login for users with 2FA enabled. !4493
   - Added descriptions to notification settings dropdown
diff --git a/app/views/projects/merge_requests/_new_compare.html.haml b/app/views/projects/merge_requests/_new_compare.html.haml
index b08524574e4..de39964fca8 100644
--- a/app/views/projects/merge_requests/_new_compare.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/projects/merge_requests/_new_compare.html.haml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
                   selected: f.object.source_project_id
           .merge-request-select.dropdown
             = f.hidden_field :source_branch
-            = dropdown_toggle "Select source branch", { toggle: "dropdown", field_name: "#{f.object_name}[source_branch]" }, { toggle_class: "js-compare-dropdown js-source-branch" }
+            = dropdown_toggle f.object.source_branch || "Select source branch", { toggle: "dropdown", field_name: "#{f.object_name}[source_branch]" }, { toggle_class: "js-compare-dropdown js-source-branch" }
             .dropdown-menu.dropdown-menu-selectable.dropdown-source-branch
               = dropdown_title("Select source branch")
               = dropdown_filter("Search branches")