diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 07f8ab3..c099f7f 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -19,3 +19,4 @@ NetworkManager-openswan-0.8.tar.gz
 /NetworkManager-libreswan-1.2.12.tar.xz
 /NetworkManager-libreswan-1.2.14.tar.xz
 /NetworkManager-libreswan-1.2.16.tar.xz
+/NetworkManager-libreswan-1.2.18.tar.xz
diff --git a/NetworkManager-libreswan.spec b/NetworkManager-libreswan.spec
index 9a5b438..1f3d38a 100644
--- a/NetworkManager-libreswan.spec
+++ b/NetworkManager-libreswan.spec
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@
 
 Summary:   NetworkManager VPN plug-in for IPsec VPN
 Name:      NetworkManager-libreswan
-Version:   1.2.16
-Release:   5%{?dist}
+Version:   1.2.18
+Release:   1%{?dist}
 License:   GPL-2.0-or-later
 URL:       https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/NetworkManager-libreswan
 Source0:   https://download.gnome.org/sources/NetworkManager-libreswan/1.2/%{name}-%{version}.tar.xz
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ mv %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/dbus-1 %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/
 %{_libexecdir}/nm-libreswan-service
 %{_libexecdir}/nm-libreswan-service-helper
 %{_mandir}/man5/nm-settings-libreswan.5.gz
-%doc AUTHORS ChangeLog NEWS
+%doc AUTHORS NEWS
 %license COPYING
 
 
@@ -125,6 +125,9 @@ mv %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/dbus-1 %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/
 
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Dec 15 2023 Beniamino Galvani <bgalvani@redhat.com> - 1.2.18-1
+- Update to 1.2.18 release
+
 * Fri Sep 08 2023 Till Maas <opensource@till.name> - 1.2.16-5
 - Migrate to spdx license
 - Cleanup whitespace
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index d7a2708..aebdc3f 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (NetworkManager-libreswan-1.2.16.tar.xz) = 1e775a525df5ae6dafa2ccc04af345e5cc04d74ea9f532614f4fd2b388c1016940a1db8347ac670fe396f075b5c9234afea59e777ecbd6ce647db9f3247cd7ad
+SHA512 (NetworkManager-libreswan-1.2.18.tar.xz) = 399724d2c97e976dbd2ec33bb9100ad79aaa66b753b2f8e59b8a5695bfbd9d76273896115bc09efae159d9fb81ed656411562f3321c1696006da0dbd3dc933bd