diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 374f6b5d6..1c6a88764 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ with codecs.open(os.path.join(here, 'README.rst'), encoding='utf-8') as f:
 setup(
     name="sops",
     py_modules=['sops'],
-    version="1.17",
+    version="1.18",
     author="Julien Vehent",
     author_email="jvehent@mozilla.com",
     description="Secrets OPerationS (sops) is an editor of encrypted files",
diff --git a/sops/__init__.py b/sops/__init__.py
index fa8a1d739..8b64b9d09 100644
--- a/sops/__init__.py
+++ b/sops/__init__.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ if sys.version_info[0] == 3:
 
 PY2 = sys.version_info[0] == 2
 
-VERSION = '1.17'
+VERSION = '1.18'
 
 DESC = """
 `sops` supports AWS KMS and PGP encryption: