diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
index 0332a870506..444b0c739c5 100644
--- a/COPYING
+++ b/COPYING
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ licenses.  You may choose to be licensed under the terms of the the
 BSD license or the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version
 2, both included below.
 
-Copyright (c) 2015-2022 Intel Corporation.  All rights reserved.
-Copyright (c) 2015-2019 Cisco Systems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
+Copyright (c) Intel Corporation.  All rights reserved.
+Copyright (c) Cisco Systems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
 
 ==================================================================
 
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index c90853ba57a..b5850237847 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -6,29 +6,103 @@ bug fixes (and other actions) for each version of Libfabric since
 version 1.0.  New major releases include all fixes from minor
 releases with earlier release dates.
 
-v1.18.1, Fri Jun 20, 2023
+v1.18.1, Fri Jun 30, 2023
 =========================
 
 ## Core
 
-## EFA
+- Fix build warning for ofi_dynpoll_get_fd
 
-## OPX
+## EFA
 
-## PSM3
+- Handle 0-byte writes
+- Apply byte_in_order_128_byte for all memory type
+- Increase default shm_av_size to 256
+- Force handshake before selecting rtm for non-system ifaces.
+- Only select readbase_rtm when both sides support rdma-read
+- Bugfix for initializing SHM offload
+- Correct CPPFLAGS during configure
+- Make setopt support sendrecv aligned 128 bytes
+- Make data size to be 128 byte multiples for in-order aligned send/recv
+- prepare local read pkt entry for in-order aligned send/recv.
+- Disable gdrcopy and cudamemcpy for in-order aligned recv.
+- Increase the pad size in rxr_pkt_entry
+- Make readcopy pkt pool 128 byte aligned
+- Introduce alignment to support in order aligned ops
+- Fix a bug when calling ibv_query_qp_data_in_order
+- RMA operations will ensure FI_ATOMIC cap
+- RMA operations will ensure FI_RMA cap
+- Unittest atomics without FI_ATOMIC cap.
+- Unittest RMA without FI_RMA cap.
+- Refactor pkt_entry assignment in poll_ibv loop
+- Fixes for RDMA Write and Writedata
 
 ## RXM
 
+- Revert rxm util peer CQ support
+- Fix credit size parameter for flow ctrl
+
 ## SHM
 
+- Fix DSA enable
+- Assert read op and inject proto are mutually exclusive
+- Fix ROCR data coherency
+- Add FI_LOCAL_COMM to shm attrs
+- Signal peer when peer is out of resources
+- Handle empty freestack
+- Fix bug in configure.m4 in atomics_happy assignment happy
+- Add memory barrier before update resp->status for SAR
+- Fix resource leak reported by coverity
+- Switch cmd_ctx pool from freestack to bufpool
+- Add iface parameter to smr_select_proto
+
 ## TCP
 
-## Util
+- Fix spinning on fi_trywait()
+- Handle truncation of active message
+- Handle prefetched data after reporting ETRUNC error
+- Progress all ep's on unexp_msg_list when posting recv
+- Removed unused saved_msg::ep field to fix assert
+- Continue receiving after truncation error
+- Create function to allocate internal msg buffer
+- Add runtime setting for max saved message size
+- Increase default max_saved value
+- Dynamically allocate large saved Rx buffers
+- Separate the max inject and recv buf size
+- Remove 1-line xnet_cq_add_progress function
+- Changed default wait object to epoll
+- Handle case where epoll isn't natively supported
+- Hold domain lock while deregistering memory
+- Rename DL package from libnet to libtcp
+
+## UCX
+
+- Align the provider version with the libfabric version
 
 ## Verbs
 
+- Delay device initialization to when fi_getinfo is called
+- Consolidate peer_mem and dmabuf support check
+- verbs_nd: Init len to 0 for WCSGetProviderPath call
+- verbs_nd: Verify CQs are valid in rdma_create_qp
+- verbs_nd: Initialize ibv_wc fields
+- verbs_nd: Release lock in network direct error paths
+- Fix vrb_add_credits signature
+- Fix credit size parameter for flow ctrl
+- Recover RXM connection from verbs QP in error state
+
 ## Fabtests
 
+- Add ze-dlopen functions to component tests
+- Call cudaSetDevice() for selected device
+- pytest/efa: Adjust get_efa_devices()
+- pytest/common: Support parallel neuron test
+- pytest/common: Use different cuda device for parallel cuda set
+- efa: Test_flood_peer.py increase timeout
+- pytest/efa: Test to flood peer during startup
+- fi-rdmabw-xe: Add option to set maximum message size
+- fi-rdmabw-xe: Add option to set batch size
+
 v1.18.0, Fri Apr 7, 2023
 ========================
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 5209bd14dc0..3276a31ec35 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ dnl
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 
 AC_PREREQ([2.60])
-AC_INIT([libfabric], [1.18.1rc1], [ofiwg@lists.openfabrics.org])
+AC_INIT([libfabric], [1.18.1], [ofiwg@lists.openfabrics.org])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/fabric.c])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(config)
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR(config)
diff --git a/fabtests/configure.ac b/fabtests/configure.ac
index 08971bdf123..97c1998f3b2 100644
--- a/fabtests/configure.ac
+++ b/fabtests/configure.ac
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ dnl
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 
 AC_PREREQ(2.57)
-AC_INIT([fabtests], [1.18.1rc1], [ofiwg@lists.openfabrics.org])
+AC_INIT([fabtests], [1.18.1], [ofiwg@lists.openfabrics.org])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(config)
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR(config)
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS(config.h)
diff --git a/include/windows/config.h b/include/windows/config.h
index fa0695aceff..691e36b0b04 100644
--- a/include/windows/config.h
+++ b/include/windows/config.h
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@
 #define PACKAGE_TARNAME PACKAGE
 
 /* Define to the version of this package. */
-#define PACKAGE_VERSION "1.18.1rc1"
+#define PACKAGE_VERSION "1.18.1"
 
 /* Define to the full name and version of this package. */
 #define PACKAGE_STRING PACKAGE_NAME " " PACKAGE_VERSION