diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index d8e901654..0bd6899df 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+ver 0.18.12 (not yet released)
+
 ver 0.18.11 (2014/05/12)
 * decoder
   - opus: fix missing song length on high-latency files
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 48933c4cf..36f785f4d 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 AC_PREREQ(2.60)
 
-AC_INIT(mpd, 0.18.11, mpd-devel@musicpd.org)
+AC_INIT(mpd, 0.18.12, mpd-devel@musicpd.org)
 
 VERSION_MAJOR=0
 VERSION_MINOR=18