diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 16e5d1616bd..8063d90a156 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # Change Log
 
+## [1.1.8.1] - 2022-01-31
+
+### Changed
+
+- Changed dependency resolution to only consider desired target environment markers to speed up dependency resolution. Defaults to hard coded values.
+
 ## [1.1.8] - 2021-08-19
 
 ### Fixed
diff --git a/poetry/installation/installer.py b/poetry/installation/installer.py
index 8cef65d529b..f87912e7554 100644
--- a/poetry/installation/installer.py
+++ b/poetry/installation/installer.py
@@ -223,6 +223,10 @@ def _do_install(self, local_repo):
                     raise ValueError("Extra [{}] is not specified.".format(extra))
 
             self._io.write_line("<info>Updating dependencies</>")
+
+            # TODO (kazesberger) use/read/parse custom poetry config from pyproject.toml and provide opportunity to
+            # configure "target environment markers" so we can skip any non-validating dependency markers
+
             solver = Solver(
                 self._package,
                 self._pool,
diff --git a/poetry/puzzle/provider.py b/poetry/puzzle/provider.py
index c05efbd6844..d30015266fa 100755
--- a/poetry/puzzle/provider.py
+++ b/poetry/puzzle/provider.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 from contextlib import contextmanager
 from tempfile import mkdtemp
-from typing import Any
+from typing import Any, Dict
 from typing import List
 from typing import Optional
 
@@ -479,6 +479,37 @@ def complete_package(
             if self._env and not dep.marker.validate(self._env.marker_env):
                 continue
 
+            def get_target_env_markers_from_env_vars() -> Dict[str, str]:
+                import os
+
+                ENV_VAR_PREFIX = "POETRY_MARKER_"
+                DEFAULT_HARDCODED_MARKERS_DICT = {'implementation_name': 'cpython',
+                                                  'implementation_version': '3.8.10',
+                                                  'interpreter_name': 'cp',
+                                                  'interpreter_version': '38',
+                                                  'os_name': 'posix',
+                                                  'platform_machine': 'x86_64',
+                                                  'platform_python_implementation': 'CPython',
+                                                  'platform_release': '5.11.0-46-generic',
+                                                  'platform_system': 'Linux',
+                                                  'platform_version': '#51~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 7 06:51:40 UTC 2022',
+                                                  'python_full_version': '3.8.10',
+                                                  'python_version': '3.8',
+                                                  'sys_platform': 'linux',
+                                                  'version_info': [3, 8, 10, 'final', 0]}
+
+                target_markers = []
+                for key, val in os.environ.items():
+                    if key[:14] == ENV_VAR_PREFIX:
+                        target_markers.append((key[len(ENV_VAR_PREFIX):].lower(), val))
+                if target_markers:
+                    return target_markers
+                else:
+                    return DEFAULT_HARDCODED_MARKERS_DICT
+
+            if not dep.marker.validate(get_target_env_markers_from_env_vars()):
+                continue
+
             if not package.is_root():
                 if (dep.is_optional() and dep.name not in optional_dependencies) or (
                     dep.in_extras
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index eb55fd12270..10ce546f3a2 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "poetry"
-version = "1.1.8"
+version = "1.1.8.1"
 description = "Python dependency management and packaging made easy."
 authors = [
     "Sébastien Eustace <sebastien@eustace.io>"