diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 97f249b4..25779edd 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+0.18.0
+- Add patch support for repos
+- Use git diff-index to check if repo is dirty
+- docker: add debootstrap and qemu-user-static
+
 0.17.0
 - Add iproute and zx-utils to the docker image
 - Fix relative path for repos
diff --git a/kas/__version__.py b/kas/__version__.py
index 8277d4c9..0a65bfdd 100644
--- a/kas/__version__.py
+++ b/kas/__version__.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 __license__ = 'MIT'
 __copyright__ = 'Copyright (c) Siemens AG, 2017'
 
-__version__ = '0.17.0'
+__version__ = '0.18.0'
 
 # Please update docs/format-changelog.rst when changing the file version.
 __file_version__ = 8