diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 0b0035d9..215ce6e2 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,3 +1,18 @@
+## 0.18.0
+
+### API Breaking Changes
+
+* Removed deprecated `Info::encode` method.
+* Improved the compression settings API.
+* `Decoder` now requires a reader that implements `Seek` and `BufRead` traits.
+* Bump bitflags dependency to 2.0.
+
+### Other additions
+
+* Added `Reader::read_row` method.
+* Add support for parsing eXIf chunk.
+* Treat most auxiliary chunk errors as benign.
+
 ## 0.17.16
 
 * Make gAMA and cHRM fallback optional for sRGB ([#547])
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 5be8da9b..32dd78a8 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "png"
-version = "0.17.16"
+version = "0.18.0-rc"
 license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
 
 description = "PNG decoding and encoding library in pure Rust"