prepare RC1 of Commons Compress 1.18
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b79acb2..b576ca3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
 <dependency>
   <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
   <artifactId>commons-compress</artifactId>
-  <version>1.17</version>
+  <version>1.18</version>
 </dependency>
 ```
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 5e0ffdd..9a85a35 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>commons-compress</artifactId>
-  <version>1.18-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>1.18</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/site/site.xml b/src/site/site.xml
index 139c343..e816250 100644
--- a/src/site/site.xml
+++ b/src/site/site.xml
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
     </menu>
     <menu name="API Docs">
       <item name="Latest release" href="javadocs/api-release/index.html"/>
+      <item name="1.18" href="javadocs/api-1.18/index.html"/>
       <item name="1.17" href="javadocs/api-1.17/index.html"/>
       <item name="1.16.1" href="javadocs/api-1.16.1/index.html"/>
       <item name="1.16" href="javadocs/api-1.16/index.html"/>
diff --git a/src/site/xdoc/download_compress.xml b/src/site/xdoc/download_compress.xml
index 082a1a0..bed1ce7 100644
--- a/src/site/xdoc/download_compress.xml
+++ b/src/site/xdoc/download_compress.xml
@@ -111,32 +111,32 @@
       </p>
     </subsection>
     </section>
-    <section name="Apache Commons Compress 1.17 ">
+    <section name="Apache Commons Compress 1.18 ">
       <subsection name="Binaries">
         <table>
           <tr>
-              <td><a href="[preferred]/commons/compress/binaries/commons-compress-1.17-bin.tar.gz">commons-compress-1.17-bin.tar.gz</a></td>
-              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/compress/binaries/commons-compress-1.17-bin.tar.gz.sha256">sha256</a></td>
-              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/compress/binaries/commons-compress-1.17-bin.tar.gz.asc">pgp</a></td>
+              <td><a href="[preferred]/commons/compress/binaries/commons-compress-1.18-bin.tar.gz">commons-compress-1.18-bin.tar.gz</a></td>
+              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/compress/binaries/commons-compress-1.18-bin.tar.gz.sha256">sha256</a></td>
+              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/compress/binaries/commons-compress-1.18-bin.tar.gz.asc">pgp</a></td>
           </tr>
           <tr>
-              <td><a href="[preferred]/commons/compress/binaries/commons-compress-1.17-bin.zip">commons-compress-1.17-bin.zip</a></td>
-              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/compress/binaries/commons-compress-1.17-bin.zip.sha256">sha256</a></td>
-              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/compress/binaries/commons-compress-1.17-bin.zip.asc">pgp</a></td>
+              <td><a href="[preferred]/commons/compress/binaries/commons-compress-1.18-bin.zip">commons-compress-1.18-bin.zip</a></td>
+              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/compress/binaries/commons-compress-1.18-bin.zip.sha256">sha256</a></td>
+              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/compress/binaries/commons-compress-1.18-bin.zip.asc">pgp</a></td>
           </tr>
         </table>
       </subsection>
       <subsection name="Source">
         <table>
           <tr>
-              <td><a href="[preferred]/commons/compress/source/commons-compress-1.17-src.tar.gz">commons-compress-1.17-src.tar.gz</a></td>
-              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/compress/source/commons-compress-1.17-src.tar.gz.sha256">sha256</a></td>
-              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/compress/source/commons-compress-1.17-src.tar.gz.asc">pgp</a></td>
+              <td><a href="[preferred]/commons/compress/source/commons-compress-1.18-src.tar.gz">commons-compress-1.18-src.tar.gz</a></td>
+              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/compress/source/commons-compress-1.18-src.tar.gz.sha256">sha256</a></td>
+              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/compress/source/commons-compress-1.18-src.tar.gz.asc">pgp</a></td>
           </tr>
           <tr>
-              <td><a href="[preferred]/commons/compress/source/commons-compress-1.17-src.zip">commons-compress-1.17-src.zip</a></td>
-              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/compress/source/commons-compress-1.17-src.zip.sha256">sha256</a></td>
-              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/compress/source/commons-compress-1.17-src.zip.asc">pgp</a></td>
+              <td><a href="[preferred]/commons/compress/source/commons-compress-1.18-src.zip">commons-compress-1.18-src.zip</a></td>
+              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/compress/source/commons-compress-1.18-src.zip.sha256">sha256</a></td>
+              <td><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/compress/source/commons-compress-1.18-src.zip.asc">pgp</a></td>
           </tr>
         </table>
       </subsection>
diff --git a/src/site/xdoc/index.xml b/src/site/xdoc/index.xml
index 05a6ab1..ae80c4c 100644
--- a/src/site/xdoc/index.xml
+++ b/src/site/xdoc/index.xml
@@ -52,23 +52,13 @@
         </section>
 
         <section name="Status">
-          <p>The current release is 1.17 and requires Java 7.</p>
+          <p>The current release is 1.18 and requires Java 7.</p>
 
           <p>Below we highlight some new features, for a full list
           of changes see the <a href="changes-report.html">Changes
           Report</a>.</p>
 
-          <subsection name="What's new in 1.17?">
-            <ul>
-              <li>A new <code>InputStreamStatistics</code> interface
-              is implemented by many streams and may be used to
-              provide feedback or detect abnormally high compression
-              ratios that may indicate a ZIP bomb during
-              decompression.</li>
-            </ul>
-          </subsection>
-
-          <subsection name="What's coming in 1.18?">
+          <subsection name="What's new in 1.18?">
             <ul>
               <li>The CPIO package now properly handles file names
               using a mult-byte encoding.</li>
@@ -100,14 +90,14 @@
             licensed <a href="https://github.com/google/brotli">Google
             Brotli decoder</a>. Zstandard support is provided by the BSD
             licensed <a href="https://github.com/luben/zstd-jni">Zstd-jni</a>.
-            As of Commons Compress 1.17 support for the DEFLATE64, Z and Brotli
+            As of Commons Compress 1.18 support for the DEFLATE64, Z and Brotli
             formats is read-only.</p>
 
           <p>The ar, arj, cpio, dump, tar, 7z and zip formats are supported as
             archivers where the <a href="zip.html">zip</a>
             implementation provides capabilities that go beyond the
             features found in java.util.zip.  As of Commons Compress
-            1.17 support for the dump and arj formats is
+            1.18 support for the dump and arj formats is
             read-only - 7z can read most compressed and encrypted
             archives but only write unencrypted ones.  LZMA(2) support
             in 7z requires <a href="https://tukaani.org/xz/java.html">XZ for