diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9b0db06c0a2..ccc42011219 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# 5.18.0 RC1
+# 5.18.0
   - Changes from 5.17.0:
     - Features:
       - ADDED: `table` plugin now optionally returns `distance` matrix as part of response [#4990](https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend/pull/4990)
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 9b53959ce70..29ef7bca01a 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "osrm",
-  "version": "5.18.0-rc.1",
+  "version": "5.18.0",
   "private": false,
   "description": "The Open Source Routing Machine is a high performance routing engine written in C++14 designed to run on OpenStreetMap data.",
   "dependencies": {