diff --git a/libstorage-ng-4.4.17.tar.xz b/libstorage-ng-4.4.17.tar.xz
deleted file mode 100644
index 0233baf..0000000
--- a/libstorage-ng-4.4.17.tar.xz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:102f24be30df8adb271fc9364895d0b960d03ef640dd0e905963791758b300cd
-size 841820
diff --git a/libstorage-ng-4.4.18.tar.xz b/libstorage-ng-4.4.18.tar.xz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..df6ddd4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libstorage-ng-4.4.18.tar.xz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:3dc041fe77f88698107033a9f0cdef39277bc872785beb5fe1bad83b1c5efbc4
+size 842016
diff --git a/libstorage-ng.changes b/libstorage-ng.changes
index ea05511..180edc5 100644
--- a/libstorage-ng.changes
+++ b/libstorage-ng.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+--------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Jun 30 08:05:34 UTC 2021 - aschnell@suse.com
+
+- merge gh#openSUSE/libstorage-ng#817
+- allow trailing newlines in json parser
+- 4.4.18
+
 --------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Jun 29 09:10:06 UTC 2021 - aschnell@suse.com
 
diff --git a/libstorage-ng.spec b/libstorage-ng.spec
index 50e8345..5420405 100644
--- a/libstorage-ng.spec
+++ b/libstorage-ng.spec
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
 %define libname %{name}1
 Name:           libstorage-ng
-Version:        4.4.17
+Version:        4.4.18
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Library for storage management
 License:        GPL-2.0-only