diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index 45111752..fcf44951 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -8,7 +8,22 @@ dev
 
 **Improvements**
 
-- ``Response`` is now a context manager, so can be used directly in a `with` statement
+**Bugfixes**
+
+2.18.1 (2017-06-14)
++++++++++++++++++++
+
+**Bugfixes**
+
+- Fix an error in the packaging whereby the *.whl contained incorrect data that
+  regressed the fix in v2.17.3.
+
+2.18.0 (2017-06-14)
++++++++++++++++++++
+
+**Improvements**
+
+- ``Response`` is now a context manager, so can be used directly in a ``with`` statement
   without first having to be wrapped by ``contextlib.closing()``.
 
 **Bugfixes**
diff --git a/requests/__version__.py b/requests/__version__.py
index b21ba352..8c7ebbbc 100644
--- a/requests/__version__.py
+++ b/requests/__version__.py
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
 __title__ = 'requests'
 __description__ = 'Python HTTP for Humans.'
 __url__ = 'http://python-requests.org'
-__version__ = '2.17.3'
-__build__ = 0x021703
+__version__ = '2.18.1'
+__build__ = 0x021801
 __author__ = 'Kenneth Reitz'
 __author_email__ = 'me@kennethreitz.org'
 __license__ = 'Apache 2.0'