diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7216c8c1..12cee0ea 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+0.18.1 (2020-01-31)
+===================
+
+Small Bugfix release.
+
+## Bugfixes
+* Just putting `# :nocov:` on top of a file or having an uneven number of them in general works again and acts as if ignoring until the end of the file. See [#846](https://github.com/colszowka/simplecov/issues/846) and thanks [@DannyBen](https://github.com/DannyBen) for the report.
+
 0.18.0 (2020-01-28)
 ===================
 
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index efcfc0af..2a5b5435 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ GIT
 PATH
   remote: .
   specs:
-    simplecov (0.18.0)
+    simplecov (0.18.1)
       docile (~> 1.1)
       simplecov-html (~> 0.11.0)
 
diff --git a/lib/simplecov/version.rb b/lib/simplecov/version.rb
index 39feccfe..ca3a6e3c 100644
--- a/lib/simplecov/version.rb
+++ b/lib/simplecov/version.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # frozen_string_literal: true
 
 module SimpleCov
-  VERSION = "0.18.0"
+  VERSION = "0.18.1"
 end