diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index dc90c6913..6fa26ca0f 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ def get_from_env(key):
 
 setuptools.setup(
     name="awscrt",
-    version="v0.2.16",
+    version="v0.2.18",
     author="Amazon Web Services, Inc",
     author_email="aws-sdk-common-runtime@amazon.com",
     description="A common runtime for AWS Python projects",