diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f8950ad64..fe3991073 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2008-09-02  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>
+
+	* configure.in: Bump version to 2.18.0
+
 2008-09-02  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>
 
 	Bug 550104 – trivial documentation fix for g_get_home_dir
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index ebba7065c..c8b8f4987 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ m4_define(glib_configure_in)
 # set glib_binary_age _and_ glib_interface_age to 0.
 #
 m4_define([glib_major_version], [2])
-m4_define([glib_minor_version], [17])
-m4_define([glib_micro_version], [8])
+m4_define([glib_minor_version], [18])
+m4_define([glib_micro_version], [0])
 m4_define([glib_interface_age], [0])
 m4_define([glib_binary_age],
           [m4_eval(100 * glib_minor_version + glib_micro_version)])