diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index c629cbc..542508a 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+0.5.18 (2019-05-20)
+-------------------
+- Fix  #176
+
 0.5.17 (2019-01-20)
 -------------------
 - Delegated autoescaping to Jinja2 Environment (#175)
diff --git a/docxtpl/__init__.py b/docxtpl/__init__.py
index 8954057..d264b7c 100644
--- a/docxtpl/__init__.py
+++ b/docxtpl/__init__.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Created : 2015-03-12
 '''
 import functools
 
-__version__ = '0.5.17'
+__version__ = '0.5.18'
 
 from lxml import etree
 from docx import Document