diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index a63b023..12a6414 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2020-02-08 (version 1.4-18)
+  - small fix to make gcc 10 happy [Thanks to Jeff Law and Jerry James!]
+  - fixed segfault at import [Thanks to Ondra Lengal!]
+  - updated automake files
+
 2016-03-23 (version 1.4-17)
   - fixes to make gcc 6.0 happy [Thanks to Jerry James, Ralf Trainen, and Gaurav Gupta!]
   - default switched from dlmalloc to built-in malloc
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 7d0e16b..dbba0eb 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 dnl ========== initialization ==========
 
 AC_INIT([mona],[1.4],[amoeller@cs.au.dk],[mona],[http://www.brics.dk/mona/])
-RELEASE=17
+RELEASE=18
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(config)
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(Front/mona.cpp)
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE()