diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index a31b12e..798215d 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -159,3 +159,4 @@
 /dnf-4.16.1.tar.gz
 /dnf-4.16.2.tar.gz
 /dnf-4.17.0.tar.gz
+/dnf-4.18.0.tar.gz
diff --git a/0001-Revert-Block-signals-during-RPM-transaction-processi.patch b/0001-Revert-Block-signals-during-RPM-transaction-processi.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index f5eac57..0000000
--- a/0001-Revert-Block-signals-during-RPM-transaction-processi.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-From d78d79f44be227a910ec8ecf811ff5898b14f653 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Jan Kolarik <jkolarik@redhat.com>
-Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 10:25:59 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] Revert "Block signals during RPM transaction processing"
-
----
- dnf/base.py | 6 ------
- 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/dnf/base.py b/dnf/base.py
-index ff7c6fe7..7e97e212 100644
---- a/dnf/base.py
-+++ b/dnf/base.py
-@@ -1028,9 +1028,6 @@ class Base(object):
-                 for display_ in cb.displays:
-                     display_.output = False
- 
--            # block signals to disallow external interruptions of the transaction
--            rpm.blockSignals(True)
--
-             self._plugins.run_pre_transaction()
- 
-             logger.info(_('Running transaction'))
-@@ -1048,9 +1045,6 @@ class Base(object):
-         for msg in dnf.util._post_transaction_output(self, self.transaction, _pto_callback):
-             logger.debug(msg)
- 
--        # unblock signals as we are done with the transaction
--        rpm.blockSignals(False)
--
-         return tid
- 
-     def _trans_error_summary(self, errstring):
--- 
-2.41.0
-
diff --git a/dnf.spec b/dnf.spec
index 4549197..c7db196 100644
--- a/dnf.spec
+++ b/dnf.spec
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 %define __cmake_in_source_build 1
 
 # default dependencies
-%global hawkey_version 0.71.0
+%global hawkey_version 0.71.1
 %global libcomps_version 0.1.8
 %global libmodulemd_version 2.9.3
 %global rpm_version 4.14.0
@@ -67,14 +67,13 @@
 It supports RPMs, modules and comps groups & environments.
 
 Name:           dnf
-Version:        4.17.0
-Release:        6%{?dist}
+Version:        4.18.0
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        %{pkg_summary}
 # For a breakdown of the licensing, see PACKAGE-LICENSING
 License:        GPL-2.0-or-later AND GPL-1.0-only
 URL:            https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf
 Source0:        %{url}/archive/%{version}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
-Patch0:         0001-Revert-Block-signals-during-RPM-transaction-processi.patch
 BuildArch:      noarch
 BuildRequires:  cmake
 BuildRequires:  gettext
@@ -86,6 +85,8 @@ Requires:       python3-%{name} = %{version}-%{release}
 %if 0%{?rhel} && 0%{?rhel} <= 7
 Requires:       python-dbus
 Requires:       %{_bindir}/sqlite3
+%elif 0%{?fedora}
+Recommends:     (%{_bindir}/sqlite3 if (bash-completion and python3-dnf-plugins-core))
 %else
 Recommends:     (python3-dbus if NetworkManager)
 %endif
@@ -301,7 +302,6 @@ popd
 # If DNF5 does not obsolete DNF ownership of dnf.conf should be DNF's
 %config(noreplace) %{confdir}/%{name}.conf
 %endif
-%config(noreplace) %{confdir}/protected.d/%{name}.conf
 %config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/logrotate.d/%{name}
 %ghost %attr(644,-,-) %{_localstatedir}/log/hawkey.log
 %ghost %attr(644,-,-) %{_localstatedir}/log/%{name}.log
@@ -363,6 +363,7 @@ popd
 %{_bindir}/%{name}-3
 %{_bindir}/%{name}4
 %exclude %{python3_sitelib}/%{name}/automatic
+%{python3_sitelib}/%{name}-*.dist-info
 %{python3_sitelib}/%{name}/
 %dir %{py3pluginpath}
 %dir %{py3pluginpath}/__pycache__
@@ -382,6 +383,19 @@ popd
 %{python3_sitelib}/%{name}/automatic/
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Oct 18 2023 Jan Kolarik <jkolarik@redhat.com> - 4.18.0-1
+- Update to 4.18.0
+- base: Add obsoleters of only latest versions (RhBug:2183279,2176263)
+- comps: Fix marking a group package as installed (RhBug:2066638)
+- distro-sync: Print better info message when no match (RhBug:2011850)
+- Include dist-info for python3-dnf (RhBug:2239323)
+- Revert "Block signals during RPM transaction processing" (RhBug:2133398)
+- Do not print details of verifying (RhBug:1908253)
+- Add Recommends %{_bindir}/sqlite3 for bash-completion for Fedora
+- conf: Split $releasever to $releasever_major and $releasever_minor (RhBug:1789346)
+- Allow DNF to be removed by DNF 5 (RhBug:2221907)
+- Update translations
+
 * Wed Sep 20 2023 Jan Kolarik <jkolarik@redhat.com> - 4.17.0-6
 - Revert "Block signals during RPM transaction processing" (RhBug:2236997)
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 6e063eb..916de4c 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (dnf-4.17.0.tar.gz) = d9d18bb5e3e0bdd77221ff886569a3210288c4fabb536c90b476351b5f53f443be86a4b4c086da168dde48718382bb1427bc9259a3241266847c7bb0940bdfb9
+SHA512 (dnf-4.18.0.tar.gz) = 819a8da43235d779aa068909495386b4363e03f3d76bb44c48d43c555912600b0efa807e763b03c0801e4a3e3154414ad54bdcf5470b84c7c940d443e5b766d1