diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index 4a19f0da5..61424f84f 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # Rocksdb Change Log
 ## Unreleased
+
+## 5.18.0 (11/12/2018)
 ### New Features
 * Introduced `Memoryllocator`, which lets the user specify custom allocator for memory in block cache.
 * Introduced `PerfContextByLevel` as part of `PerfContext` which allows storing perf context at each level. Also replaced `__thread` with `thread_local` keyword for perf_context.
diff --git a/include/rocksdb/version.h b/include/rocksdb/version.h
index 306dd0e77..89802521d 100644
--- a/include/rocksdb/version.h
+++ b/include/rocksdb/version.h
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 #pragma once
 
 #define ROCKSDB_MAJOR 5
-#define ROCKSDB_MINOR 17
+#define ROCKSDB_MINOR 18
 #define ROCKSDB_PATCH 0
 
 // Do not use these. We made the mistake of declaring macros starting with