diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6ff29294c6..0bd367d526 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 ### HEAD
+* Officially support Ubuntu 20.04 (and default Vagrant to it) ([#1197](https://github.com/roots/trellis/pull/1197))
 
 ### 1.6.0: November 5th, 2020
 * Remove prestissimo for Composer 2.0 support ([#1247](https://github.com/roots/trellis/pull/1247))
diff --git a/roles/common/tasks/main.yml b/roles/common/tasks/main.yml
index 1559a76a89..971ca45ead 100644
--- a/roles/common/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/common/tasks/main.yml
@@ -67,7 +67,9 @@
 - name: Validate Ubuntu version
   debug:
     msg: |
-      Trellis is built for Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic as of https://github.com/roots/trellis/pull/992
+      Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic is the minimum supported version of Ubuntu in Trellis 1.0+ (as of https://github.com/roots/trellis/pull/992)
+
+      20.04 Focal is the recommend version for Trellis 1.7+ (as of https://github.com/roots/trellis/pull/1197)
 
       Your Ubuntu version is {{ ansible_distribution_version }} {{ ansible_distribution_release }}
 
@@ -77,8 +79,8 @@
 
       Development via Vagrant: `vagrant destroy && vagrant up`
 
-      Staging/Production: Create a new server with Ubuntu 18.04 and provision
-  when: ansible_distribution_release != 'bionic'
+      Staging/Production: Create a new server with Ubuntu 20.04 and provision
+  when: ansible_distribution_version is version('18.04', '<')
 
 - name: Check whether passlib is needed
   fail:
diff --git a/vagrant.default.yml b/vagrant.default.yml
index a41258b078..96361bc6c4 100644
--- a/vagrant.default.yml
+++ b/vagrant.default.yml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 vagrant_ip: '192.168.50.5'
 vagrant_cpus: 1
 vagrant_memory: 1024 # in MB
-vagrant_box: 'bento/ubuntu-18.04'
+vagrant_box: 'bento/ubuntu-20.04'
 vagrant_box_version: '>= 201807.12.0'
 vagrant_ansible_version: '2.8.0'
 vagrant_skip_galaxy: false