From 44015330271de567d6b5cb6a6843c38a1accec16 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "release-please[bot]"
 <55107282+release-please[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 17:55:02 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] chore(main): release 2.18.1

---
 .release-please-manifest.json                              | 2 +-
 CHANGELOG.md                                               | 7 +++++++
 google/pubsub/gapic_version.py                             | 2 +-
 google/pubsub_v1/gapic_version.py                          | 2 +-
 .../snippet_metadata_google.pubsub.v1.json                 | 2 +-
 5 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index f2565ccec..75006b003 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 {
-    ".": "2.18.0"
+    ".": "2.18.1"
 }
   
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 96c16c6a2..bfdb68028 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,13 @@
 [1]: https://pypi.org/project/google-cloud-pubsub/#history
 
 
+## [2.18.1](https://github.com/googleapis/python-pubsub/compare/v2.18.0...v2.18.1) (2023-07-26)
+
+
+### Documentation
+
+* Clarified where ordering_key will be written if write_metadata is set ([#965](https://github.com/googleapis/python-pubsub/issues/965)) ([3d95034](https://github.com/googleapis/python-pubsub/commit/3d95034f94426cdcf5b87323b9e463a7e8ce4f91))
+
 ## [2.18.0](https://github.com/googleapis/python-pubsub/compare/v2.17.1...v2.18.0) (2023-07-12)
 
 
diff --git a/google/pubsub/gapic_version.py b/google/pubsub/gapic_version.py
index f09943f6b..e1b4da1de 100644
--- a/google/pubsub/gapic_version.py
+++ b/google/pubsub/gapic_version.py
@@ -13,4 +13,4 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 #
-__version__ = "2.18.0"  # {x-release-please-version}
+__version__ = "2.18.1"  # {x-release-please-version}
diff --git a/google/pubsub_v1/gapic_version.py b/google/pubsub_v1/gapic_version.py
index f09943f6b..e1b4da1de 100644
--- a/google/pubsub_v1/gapic_version.py
+++ b/google/pubsub_v1/gapic_version.py
@@ -13,4 +13,4 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 #
-__version__ = "2.18.0"  # {x-release-please-version}
+__version__ = "2.18.1"  # {x-release-please-version}
diff --git a/samples/generated_samples/snippet_metadata_google.pubsub.v1.json b/samples/generated_samples/snippet_metadata_google.pubsub.v1.json
index d66015ac4..551a55277 100644
--- a/samples/generated_samples/snippet_metadata_google.pubsub.v1.json
+++ b/samples/generated_samples/snippet_metadata_google.pubsub.v1.json
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
     ],
     "language": "PYTHON",
     "name": "google-cloud-pubsub",
-    "version": "0.1.0"
+    "version": "2.18.1"
   },
   "snippets": [
     {