diff --git a/chromadb/__init__.py b/chromadb/__init__.py
index 596b5b82bc6..c292da85fca 100644
--- a/chromadb/__init__.py
+++ b/chromadb/__init__.py
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 
 __settings = Settings()
 
-__version__ = "0.4.17"
+__version__ = "0.4.18"
 
 # Workaround to deal with Colab's old sqlite3 version
 try: