diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 7b51ca08b..5e39b9417 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  ".": "0.17.0"
+  ".": "0.18.0"
 }
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1bf9b3e7f..d718b6316 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,16 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [0.18.0](https://github.com/aborgna-q/guppylang/compare/v0.17.0...v0.18.0) (2025-03-20)
+
+
+### ⚠ BREAKING CHANGES
+
+* Not really
+
+### Features
+
+* A very breaking example ([cfd70f8](https://github.com/aborgna-q/guppylang/commit/cfd70f8d49d62576794f123d45da88423c2c5deb))
+
 ## [0.17.0](https://github.com/CQCL/guppylang/compare/v0.16.0...v0.17.0) (2025-03-18)
 
 
diff --git a/guppylang/__init__.py b/guppylang/__init__.py
index 1e72c303d..a155d3e77 100644
--- a/guppylang/__init__.py
+++ b/guppylang/__init__.py
@@ -7,4 +7,4 @@
 
 # This is updated by our release-please workflow, triggered by this
 # annotation: x-release-please-version
-__version__ = "0.17.0"
+__version__ = "0.18.0"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index afd2036f6..608b4fc8e 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "guppylang"
-version = "0.17.0"
+version = "0.18.0"
 requires-python = ">=3.10,<4"
 description = "Pythonic quantum-classical programming language"
 license = { file = "LICENCE" }