From 5cdf38ab618306ca33edb0198500d4644e251aea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: zksync-era-bot <147085853+zksync-era-bot@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2023 11:14:52 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] chore(main): release core 18.6.1

---
 .github/release-please/manifest.json | 2 +-
 core/CHANGELOG.md                    | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/release-please/manifest.json b/.github/release-please/manifest.json
index bce64523644..5fa24197fc7 100644
--- a/.github/release-please/manifest.json
+++ b/.github/release-please/manifest.json
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
   "sdk/zksync-rs": "0.4.0",
-  "core": "18.6.0",
+  "core": "18.6.1",
   "prover": "10.0.0"
 }
diff --git a/core/CHANGELOG.md b/core/CHANGELOG.md
index 41439ca4651..77773c81ba7 100644
--- a/core/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/core/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [18.6.1](https://github.com/matter-labs/zksync-era/compare/core-v18.6.0...core-v18.6.1) (2023-12-06)
+
+
+### Performance Improvements
+
+* **external-node:** Use async miniblock sealing in external IO ([#611](https://github.com/matter-labs/zksync-era/issues/611)) ([5cf7210](https://github.com/matter-labs/zksync-era/commit/5cf7210dc77bb615944352f23ed39fad324b914f))
+
 ## [18.6.0](https://github.com/matter-labs/zksync-era/compare/core-v18.5.0...core-v18.6.0) (2023-12-05)