diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 49acef870..65e1e150d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,31 @@
+Release 1.18.2 (2024-09-01 Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@gnome.org>)
+==============================================================
+
+A new stable release.
+
+The malloc-stats code has been removed from the tests directory [#640]; the
+canonical location for it is: https://github.com/behdad/malloc-stats
+
+Cairo now requires a version of pixman equal to, or newer than, 0.40. [!522]
+
+There have been multiple build fixes for newer versions of GCC [!525, !542];
+for MSVC [#808]; for Solaris [!540]; and on macOS 10.7 [#810].
+
+PNG errors caused by loading malformed data are correctly propagated to
+callers, so they can handle the case. [!524]
+
+Both stroke and fill colors are now set when showing glyphs on a PDF
+surface. [#813]
+
+All the font options are copied when creating a fallback font object. [#819]
+
+When drawing text on macOS, Cairo now tries harder to select the appropriate
+font name. [#811]
+
+Cairo now prefers the COLRv1 table inside a font, if one is available. [!537]
+
+Cairo requires a C11 toolchain when building. [!479]
+
 Release 1.18.0 (2023-09-20 Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@gnome.org>)
 ==============================================================
 
diff --git a/src/cairo-version.h b/src/cairo-version.h
index 6efd7615d..18b2f485b 100644
--- a/src/cairo-version.h
+++ b/src/cairo-version.h
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@
 
 #define CAIRO_VERSION_MAJOR 1
 #define CAIRO_VERSION_MINOR 18
-#define CAIRO_VERSION_MICRO 1
+#define CAIRO_VERSION_MICRO 2
 
 #endif