diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 65a593221..672b876fd 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 A high productivity, full-stack web framework for the [Go language](http://www.golang.org).
 
-Current Version: 0.18.0-dev (2017-07-14)
+Current Version: 0.18.0 (2017-10-30)
 
 **As of Revel 0.15.0, Go 1.6+ is required.**
 
diff --git a/version.go b/version.go
index bc58e46f7..4ed23de7b 100644
--- a/version.go
+++ b/version.go
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ package revel
 
 const (
 	// Version current Revel version
-	Version = "0.18-dev"
+	Version = "0.18.0"
 
 	// BuildDate latest commit/release date
-	BuildDate = "2017-07-14"
+	BuildDate = "2017-10-30"
 
 	// MinimumGoVersion minimum required Go version for Revel
 	MinimumGoVersion = ">= go1.6"