diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f17f8db..f46c7de 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. Currently g
 
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/).
 
+## [0.5.18] — 2020-04-01
+### Changed
+- Allow `rect` and `curve` objects also to be passed to "explicit_..._lines" setting when table-finding. (And disallow other types of dicts to be passed.)
+
+### Fixed
+- Fix `utils.extract_text` bug introduced in prior version
+
 ## [0.5.17] — 2020-04-01
 ### Fixed
 - Fix and simplify obj-in-bbox logic (see commit 25672961)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b056cc9..a3c0bdf 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# PDFPlumber `v0.5.17`
+# PDFPlumber `v0.5.18`
 
 Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each text character, rectangle, and line. Plus: Table extraction and visual debugging.
 
diff --git a/pdfplumber/_version.py b/pdfplumber/_version.py
index a68c285..5026755 100644
--- a/pdfplumber/_version.py
+++ b/pdfplumber/_version.py
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-version_info = (0, 5, 17)
+version_info = (0, 5, 18)
 __version__ = '.'.join(map(str, version_info))