diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES.txt b/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
index af8a00f..794e964 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@
 o Added a unit test that is supposed to fail if we break the
   OSGi manifest entries again.
   Issue: COMPRESS-443.
-o Add a new SkipShieldingInputStream class that can be used wit
-  streams that throw an IOException whne skip is invoked.
+o Add a new SkipShieldingInputStream class that can be used with
+  streams that throw an IOException when skip is invoked.
   Issue: COMPRESS-449.
 o New constructors have been added to SevenZFile that accept
   char[]s rather than byte[]s in order to avoid a common error
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index f04910d..d97bf13 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>commons-compress</artifactId>
-  <version>1.17</version>
+  <version>1.18-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <name>Apache Commons Compress</name>
   <url>https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-compress/</url>
   <!-- The description is not indented to make it look better in the release notes -->
diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index dfcfd66..3195582 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -42,7 +42,10 @@
     <title>commons-compress</title>
   </properties>
   <body>
-    <release version="1.17" date="not released, yet"
+    <release version="1.18" date="not released, yet"
+             description="Release 1.18">
+    </release>
+    <release version="1.17" date="2018-06-03"
              description="Release 1.17">
       <action type="fix" date="2018-02-06">
         Removed the objenesis dependency from the pom as it is not
@@ -75,8 +78,8 @@
         OSGi manifest entries again.
       </action>
       <action issue="COMPRESS-449" type="add" date="2018-05-02">
-        Add a new SkipShieldingInputStream class that can be used wit
-        streams that throw an IOException whne skip is invoked.
+        Add a new SkipShieldingInputStream class that can be used with
+        streams that throw an IOException when skip is invoked.
       </action>
       <action issue="COMPRESS-451" type="fix" date="2018-05-04">
         IOUtils.copy now verifies the buffer size is bigger than 0.