diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index be168d3bbd..c1640100c6 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,41 @@
+Overview of Changes in GTK+ 3.18.0
+==================================
+
+* Speed up shadow drawing by caching corner shadows
+
+* Memory leak fixes
+
+* Bugs fixed:
+ 681965 Clean up the autotools files on the parts used for Visual C++...
+ 754098 Cannot resize window with destroyed EventBox
+ 754629 gtk-demo: $(EXEEXT) is missing
+ 754745 overlay scrollbar shouldn't hide when the slider is being grabbed
+ 754952 gdk_pixbuf_get_from_window: always returns same image
+ 755021 context menu in empty file folder -> crash
+ 755274 test-simplify uses bashism in /bin/sh script
+ 755352 Crash on widget destruction during event handling
+
+* Translation updates:
+ Brazilian Portuguese
+ Czech
+ Danish
+ French
+ Greek
+ Hungarian
+ Japanese
+ Kazakh
+ Latvian
+ Lithuanian
+ Norwegian bokmål
+ Persian
+ Russian
+ Serbian
+ Serbian Latin
+ Spanish
+ Swedish
+ Turkish
+
+
 Overview of Changes in GTK+ 3.17.9
 ==================================
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index b096e2e9b5..11e7795c61 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@
 # set GTK_BINARY_AGE and GTK_INTERFACE_AGE to 0.
 
 m4_define([gtk_major_version], [3])
-m4_define([gtk_minor_version], [17])
-m4_define([gtk_micro_version], [9])
+m4_define([gtk_minor_version], [18])
+m4_define([gtk_micro_version], [0])
 m4_define([gtk_interface_age], [0])
 m4_define([gtk_binary_age],
           [m4_eval(100 * gtk_minor_version + gtk_micro_version)])