diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 4b3a2bf..ec9c2e6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -2,6 +2,13 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
+8.18.0 (2025-04-15)
+-------------------
+
+* Drop Python 3.8, Support Python 3.12 (`#743 <https://github.com/elastic/eland/pull/743>`_)
+* Support Pandas 2 (`#742 <https://github.com/elastic/eland/pull/742>`_)
+* Upgrade transformers to 4.47 (`#752 <https://github.com/elastic/eland/pull/752>`_)
+
 8.17.0 (2025-01-07)
 -------------------
 
diff --git a/eland/_version.py b/eland/_version.py
index 72dfa7f..a3e5957 100644
--- a/eland/_version.py
+++ b/eland/_version.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 __title__ = "eland"
 __description__ = "Python Client and Toolkit for DataFrames, Big Data, Machine Learning and ETL in Elasticsearch"
 __url__ = "https://github.com/elastic/eland"
-__version__ = "8.17.0"
+__version__ = "8.18.0"
 __author__ = "Steve Dodson"
 __author_email__ = "steve.dodson@elastic.co"
 __maintainer__ = "Elastic Client Library Maintainers"