diff --git a/Configuration.props b/Configuration.props
index f1f2556dd43..309d55ab9eb 100644
--- a/Configuration.props
+++ b/Configuration.props
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@
   <PropertyGroup>
     <ProductVersion>7.4.99</ProductVersion>
     <!-- *Latest* API level binding that we support; used when building src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks -->
-    <AndroidLatestApiLevel Condition="'$(AndroidLatestApiLevel)' == ''">25</AndroidLatestApiLevel>
-    <AndroidLatestFrameworkVersion Condition="'$(AndroidLatestFrameworkVersion)' == ''">v7.1</AndroidLatestFrameworkVersion>
+    <AndroidLatestApiLevel Condition="'$(AndroidLatestApiLevel)' == ''">26</AndroidLatestApiLevel>
+    <AndroidLatestFrameworkVersion Condition="'$(AndroidLatestFrameworkVersion)' == ''">v8.0</AndroidLatestFrameworkVersion>
   </PropertyGroup>
   <PropertyGroup>
     <AutoProvision Condition=" '$(AutoProvision)' == '' ">False</AutoProvision>
diff --git a/tests/api-compatibility/api-compatibility.mk b/tests/api-compatibility/api-compatibility.mk
index eb31a9162bf..28a652f4823 100644
--- a/tests/api-compatibility/api-compatibility.mk
+++ b/tests/api-compatibility/api-compatibility.mk
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ run-api-compatibility-tests: $(MONO_API_HTML) $(MONO_API_INFO)
 	make -C external/xamarin-android-api-compatibility check \
 		MONO_API_HTML="$(RUNTIME) $(abspath $(MONO_API_HTML))" \
 		MONO_API_INFO="$(RUNTIME) $(abspath $(MONO_API_INFO))" \
-		STABLE_FRAMEWORKS="$(STABLE_FRAMEWORKS)" \
 		XA_FRAMEWORK_DIR="$(abspath $(FRAMEWORK_DIR))"
 
 $(MONO_API_HTML): $(wildcard $(MONO_API_HTML_DIR)/*.cs) $(MONO_OPTIONS_SRC)