diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 16d3865e6..1ce97c43d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,6 +1,44 @@
 ChangeLog :
 ===========
 
+2009/05/10 : 1.3.18
+    - [MEDIUM] add support for "balance hdr(name)"
+    - [CLEANUP] give a little bit more information in error message
+    - [MINOR] add X-Original-To: header
+    - [BUG] x-original-to: fix missing initialization to default value
+    - [BUILD] spec file: fix broken pipe during rpmbuild and add man file
+    - [MINOR] improve reporting of misplaced acl/reqxxx rules
+    - [MEDIUM] http: add options to ignore invalid header names
+    - [MEDIUM] http: capture invalid requests/responses even if accepted
+    - [BUILD] add format(printf) to printf-like functions
+    - [MINOR] fix several printf formats and missing arguments
+    - [BUG] stats: total and lbtot are unsigned
+    - [MINOR] fix a few remaining printf-like formats on 64-bit platforms
+    - [CLEANUP] remove unused make option from haproxy.spec
+    - [BUILD] make it possible to pass alternative arch at build time
+    - [MINOR] switch all stat counters to 64-bit
+    - [MEDIUM] ensure we don't recursively call pool_gc2()
+    - [CRITICAL] uninitialized response field can sometimes cause crashes
+    - [BUG] fix wrong pointer arithmetics in HTTP message captures
+    - [MINOR] rhel init script : support the reload operation
+    - [MINOR] add basic signal handling functions
+    - [BUILD] add signal.o to all makefiles
+    - [MEDIUM] call signal_process_queue from run_poll_loop
+    - [MEDIUM] pollers: don't wait if a signal is pending
+    - [MEDIUM] convert all signals to asynchronous signals
+    - [BUG] O(1) pollers should check their FD before closing it
+    - [MINOR] don't close stdio fds twice
+    - [MINOR] add options dontlog-normal and log-separate-errors
+    - [DOC] minor fixes and rearrangements
+    - [BUG] fix parser crash on unconditional tcp content rules
+    - [DOC] rearrange the configuration manual and add a summary
+    - [MINOR] standard: provide a new 'my_strndup' function
+    - [MINOR] implement per-logger log level limitation
+    - [MINOR] compute the max of sessions/s on fe/be/srv
+    - [MINOR] stats: report max sessions/s and limit in CSV export
+    - [MINOR] stats: report max sessions/s and limit in HTML stats
+    - [MINOR] stats/html: use the arial font before helvetica
+
 2009/03/29 : 1.3.17
     - Update specfile to build for v2.6 kernel.
     - [BUG] reset the stream_interface connect timeout upon connect or error
diff --git a/VERDATE b/VERDATE
index bcc33ba71..09d6e25ce 100644
--- a/VERDATE
+++ b/VERDATE
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2009/03/29
+2009/05/10
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index ef40e4d0f..9181bf797 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.3.17
+1.3.18
diff --git a/doc/configuration.txt b/doc/configuration.txt
index 43627b565..6e7bd3a65 100644
--- a/doc/configuration.txt
+++ b/doc/configuration.txt
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
                                  HAProxy
                           Configuration Manual
                          ----------------------
-                            version 1.3.17
+                            version 1.3.18
                              willy tarreau
-                              2009/03/29
+                              2009/05/10
 
 
 This document covers the configuration language as implemented in the version
diff --git a/examples/haproxy.spec b/examples/haproxy.spec
index 4897384a5..5421c7804 100644
--- a/examples/haproxy.spec
+++ b/examples/haproxy.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Summary: HA-Proxy is a TCP/HTTP reverse proxy for high availability environments
 Name: haproxy
-Version: 1.3.17
+Version: 1.3.18
 Release: 1
 License: GPL
 Group: System Environment/Daemons
@@ -76,6 +76,9 @@ fi
 %attr(0755,root,root) %config %{_sysconfdir}/rc.d/init.d/%{name}
 
 %changelog
+* Sun May 10 2009 Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
+- updated to 1.3.18
+
 * Sun Mar 29 2009 Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
 - updated to 1.3.17