From f69808387348232fb8f74328275d70488d947515 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tatu Saloranta <tatu.saloranta@iki.fi>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 18:39:21 -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 49496c3d4b..7d256909a7 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
   <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.core</groupId>
   <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
diff --git a/release-notes/VERSION-2.x b/release-notes/VERSION-2.x
index 78c1242854..e6c23ad9e9 100644
--- a/release-notes/VERSION-2.x
+++ b/release-notes/VERSION-2.x
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ a pure JSON library.
 === Releases ===
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-2.18.0 (not yet released)
+2.18.0 (26-Sep-2024)
 
 #223: `UTF8JsonGenerator` writes supplementary characters as a surrogate pair:
   should use 4-byte encoding