diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index fe9fd3c88..f91b7f09e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
-== [7.6.18] (not released yet) ==
+== [7.6.18] 2023-05-26 ==
 
 * Fix IRIX5 defined wrongly on FreeBSD/mips
 * Fix alt-stack handling in GC_push_all_stacks if stack grows up
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index e18bef71e..1fbd0c07e 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 # Info (current:revision:age) for the Libtool versioning system.
 # These numbers should be updated at most once just before the release,
 # and, optionally, at most once during the development (after the release).
-LIBGC_VER_INFO = 4:8:3
+LIBGC_VER_INFO = 4:9:3
 LIBGCCPP_VER_INFO = 4:2:3
 
 ## FIXME: `make distcheck' in this directory will not currently work.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 48e9565c4..340620361 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Boehm-Demers-Weiser Garbage Collector
 
-This is version 7.6.16 of a conservative garbage
+This is version 7.6.18 of a conservative garbage
 collector for C and C++.
 
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 3946087c3..9d8fd5b85 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce configure.
 
 dnl Initialization.
-AC_INIT(gc,7.6.16,https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/issues)
+AC_INIT(gc,7.6.18,https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/issues)
 dnl Version must conform to: [0-9]+[.][0-9]+[.][0-9]+
 
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(gcj_mlc.c)
diff --git a/include/gc_version.h b/include/gc_version.h
index 3c977ce53..83758f736 100644
--- a/include/gc_version.h
+++ b/include/gc_version.h
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 /* it to keep the old-style build process working.              */
 #define GC_TMP_VERSION_MAJOR 7
 #define GC_TMP_VERSION_MINOR 6
-#define GC_TMP_VERSION_MICRO 16 /* 7.6.16 */
+#define GC_TMP_VERSION_MICRO 18 /* 7.6.18 */
 
 #ifdef GC_VERSION_MAJOR
 # if GC_TMP_VERSION_MAJOR != GC_VERSION_MAJOR \