diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 6d30f0d..b20bfe2 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-    ".": "0.17.1"
+    ".": "0.18.0"
 }
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index fd8613c..c5a5913 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [0.18.0](https://github.com/varfish-org/clinvar-this/compare/v0.17.1...v0.18.0) (2024-09-06)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* extract-vars writes thinned-out SCV infos ([#240](https://github.com/varfish-org/clinvar-this/issues/240)) ([#258](https://github.com/varfish-org/clinvar-this/issues/258)) ([19ecf18](https://github.com/varfish-org/clinvar-this/commit/19ecf185b15c8300801a79525c47f9dcfe9eac07))
+* xml-to-json can now left-shift variants ([#255](https://github.com/varfish-org/clinvar-this/issues/255)) ([#256](https://github.com/varfish-org/clinvar-this/issues/256)) ([66671cd](https://github.com/varfish-org/clinvar-this/commit/66671cddc68f6c2df517a24ec436524d883c503b))
+
 ## [0.17.1](https://github.com/varfish-org/clinvar-this/compare/v0.17.0...v0.17.1) (2024-07-01)
 
 
diff --git a/clinvar_this/version.py b/clinvar_this/version.py
index c6eae9f..1317d75 100644
--- a/clinvar_this/version.py
+++ b/clinvar_this/version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "0.17.1"
+__version__ = "0.18.0"