From 2f3db97f3f0db13223a27559535b3b5591ca8aa0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tatu Saloranta <tatu.saloranta@iki.fi>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 21:01:31 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Prepare for 2.18.0 release

---
 pom.xml                   | 2 +-
 release-notes/VERSION-2.x | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index fe1821e3..1a43a75e 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson</groupId>
     <artifactId>jackson-base</artifactId>
-    <version>2.18.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>2.18.0</version>
   </parent>
   <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype</groupId>
   <artifactId>jackson-datatypes-collections</artifactId>
diff --git a/release-notes/VERSION-2.x b/release-notes/VERSION-2.x
index a3e774f7..5f616d94 100644
--- a/release-notes/VERSION-2.x
+++ b/release-notes/VERSION-2.x
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Active Maintainers:
 === Releases ===
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-2.18.0 (not yet released)
+2.18.0 (26-Sep-2024)
 
 #160: (guava) Defect guava OSGi dependency version specified?
  (reported by @jpstotz)