diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 386b5752..5c97d632 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -11,6 +11,35 @@
 Changelog
 +++++++++
 
+0.18.0
+======
+
+- Drop Python 3.7 support.
+- Bump minimum required Meson version to 0.64.0.
+- Bump minimum required ``pyproject-metadata`` version to 0.9.0 to enable
+  support for PEP 639.
+- Bump minimum required ``packaging`` version to 23.2. ``pyproject-metadata``
+  version 0.9.1 requires this version of ``packaging`` but fails to record the
+  version requirement in the package metadata. Enforcing the version
+  requirement in ``meson-python`` allows fixing possible dependency problems
+  without having ``meson-python`` depend on a very recent
+  ``pyproject-metadata`` release.
+- Add support for PEP 639 metadata fields. Canonicalization and validation of
+  the license expression requires ``packaging`` version 24.2 or later.
+- Add support for declaring the ``licence`` and ``license-files`` as dynamic
+  fields in ``pyproject.toml`` to extract the package license and license
+  files from the ones declared via the ``project()`` call in
+  ``meson.build``. This requires Meson version 1.6.0 or later.
+- Add support for ``RPATH`` handling on SunOS.
+- Include shared libraries built as part of the Meson project in the Python
+  wheels also on Windows, when explicitly enabled via the
+  ``tool.meson-python.allow-windows-internal-shared-libs`` project setting.
+- Add support for symbolic links that point to files within the source tree.
+  They are now included as regular files in the sdist archive.
+
+Daniele Nicolodi, Marcel Telka, Ralf Gommers --- 30-04-2025.
+
+
 0.17.1
 ======
 
@@ -19,6 +48,7 @@ Changelog
 
 Daniele Nicolodi --- 23-10-2024.
 
+
 0.17.0
 ======
 
@@ -45,6 +75,7 @@ Daniele Nicolodi --- 23-10-2024.
 Christian Clauss, Daniele Nicolodi, Jonathan J. Helmus, Leo Singer, Loïc
 Estève, Michael Simacek, Ralf Gommers, Simon McVittie --- 19-10-2024.
 
+
 0.16.0
 ======
 
diff --git a/docs/reference/meson-compatibility.rst b/docs/reference/meson-compatibility.rst
index 6b339d60..4f2ff406 100644
--- a/docs/reference/meson-compatibility.rst
+++ b/docs/reference/meson-compatibility.rst
@@ -50,8 +50,7 @@ versions.
    Meson 1.6.0 or later is required to support ``license`` and
    ``license-files`` dynamic fields in ``pyproject.toml`` and to
    populate the package license and license files from the ones
-   declared via the ``project()`` call in ``meson.build``. This also
-   requires ``pyproject-metadata`` version 0.9.0 or later.
+   declared via the ``project()`` call in ``meson.build``.
 
 Build front-ends by default build packages in an isolated Python
 environment where build dependencies are installed. Most often, unless
diff --git a/mesonpy/__init__.py b/mesonpy/__init__.py
index daa24e84..fe7768c9 100644
--- a/mesonpy/__init__.py
+++ b/mesonpy/__init__.py
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ class InvalidLicenseExpression(Exception):  # type: ignore[no-redef]
     MesonArgs = Mapping[MesonArgsKeys, List[str]]
 
 
-__version__ = '0.18.0.dev0'
+__version__ = '0.18.0'
 
 
 _PYPROJECT_METADATA_VERSION = tuple(map(int, pyproject_metadata.__version__.split('.')[:2]))
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e33e1a81..70818ab6 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ requires = [
 
 [project]
 name = 'meson-python'
-version = '0.18.0.dev0'
+version = '0.18.0'
 description = 'Meson Python build backend (PEP 517)'
 readme = 'README.rst'
 requires-python = '>= 3.8'