diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 646bc0787d74d046263349f3ae8318bdc315172c..9bf77436d311827040f791b320bc7733b04010d2 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 OpenLDAP 2.4 Change Log
 
+OpenLDAP 2.4.18 Engineering
+
 OpenLDAP 2.4.17 Release (2009/07/13)
 	Fixed liblber to use ber_strnlen (ITS#6080)
 	Fixed libldap gnutls private key init (ITS#6053)
diff --git a/build/version.var b/build/version.var
index e7749504fe75a317cb3f61efa8121b53cfd4e9ba..b0228c73273634de4c418aab3e04f57a3f90b753 100644
--- a/build/version.var
+++ b/build/version.var
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 ol_package=OpenLDAP
 ol_major=2
 ol_minor=4
-ol_patch=17
+ol_patch=X
 ol_api_inc=20417
 ol_api_current=7
 ol_api_revision=0