diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index f5b81f3..b05620c 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -15,3 +15,4 @@
 /caja-extensions-1.15.0.tar.xz
 /caja-extensions-1.16.0.tar.xz
 /caja-extensions-1.17.0.tar.xz
+/caja-extensions-1.18.0.tar.xz
diff --git a/caja-extensions.spec b/caja-extensions.spec
index a60692f..460dc5d 100644
--- a/caja-extensions.spec
+++ b/caja-extensions.spec
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 %global rel_build 1
 
 # This is needed, because src-url contains branched part of versioning-scheme.
-%global branch 1.17
+%global branch 1.18
 
 # Settings used for build from snapshots.
 %{!?rel_build:%global commit 298c7255b82986eeba72fff06f59479deae0b9d0}
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Name:           caja-extensions
 Summary:        Set of extensions for caja file manager
 Version:        %{branch}.0
 %if 0%{?rel_build}
-Release:        2%{?dist}
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 %else
 Release:        0.6%{?git_rel}%{?dist}
 %endif
@@ -230,6 +230,9 @@ fi
 
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Mar 14 2017 Wolfgang Ulbrich <chat-to-me@raveit.de> - 1.18.0-1
+- update to 1.18.0 release
+
 * Fri Feb 10 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.17.0-2
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_26_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 4762e4a..f8e4c20 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-901d4f960fe6d44e363e485d6abd82b2  caja-extensions-1.17.0.tar.xz
+SHA512 (caja-extensions-1.18.0.tar.xz) = fa93c0a4bfd34b8c20fc7d820794d373004566e350d250637841d1a6611442a21fbd18449efba5a430e381e3b929fc861d4483db0e5fca1bc241901a266eb087