diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 405e8b4c..e442a979 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-v0.8.18-beta2 2016-01-13  The Irssi team <staff@irssi.org>
+v0.8.18 2016-02-13  The Irssi team <staff@irssi.org>
 	* Modules will now require to define a
 	      void MODULENAME ## _abicheck(int *version)
 	  method to ensure that they are compiled against the correct Irssi
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index bf39c95f..5f36a7f0 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-AC_INIT(irssi, 0.8.18-beta2)
+AC_INIT(irssi, 0.8.18)
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(build-aux)
 AC_PREREQ(2.50)