diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3a4600cab5..7fa059a5c3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,20 @@
 # Release Notes
 
-## Version 1.18.0-beta.0 - 2020-02-25
+## Version 1.18.0 - 2021-03-01
+
+Bug Fixes:
+
+* fix: metric server serve on all ipv4 interfaces [#10613](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/10613)
+
+Thank you to our contributors for this release!
+
+- Medya Ghazizadeh
+- Predrag Rogic
+- Priya Wadhwa
+- Sharif Elgamal
+- liuwei10
+
+## Version 1.18.0-beta.0 - 2021-02-26
 
 Features:
 
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 17f1c5baca..c7ce225f13 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 # Bump these on release - and please check ISO_VERSION for correctness.
 VERSION_MAJOR ?= 1
 VERSION_MINOR ?= 18
-VERSION_BUILD ?= 0-beta.0
+VERSION_BUILD ?= 0
 RAW_VERSION=$(VERSION_MAJOR).$(VERSION_MINOR).$(VERSION_BUILD)
 VERSION ?= v$(RAW_VERSION)
 
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ KUBERNETES_VERSION ?= $(shell egrep "DefaultKubernetesVersion =" pkg/minikube/co
 KIC_VERSION ?= $(shell egrep "Version =" pkg/drivers/kic/types.go | cut -d \" -f2)
 
 # Default to .0 for higher cache hit rates, as build increments typically don't require new ISO versions
-ISO_VERSION ?= v1.18.0-beta.0
+ISO_VERSION ?= v1.18.0
 # Dashes are valid in semver, but not Linux packaging. Use ~ to delimit alpha/beta
 DEB_VERSION ?= $(subst -,~,$(RAW_VERSION))
 DEB_REVISION ?= 0