diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index b5f2f4fc..d6eda597 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -2,8 +2,12 @@ LMDB 0.9 Change Log
 
 LMDB 0.9.18 Release Engineering
 	already done for mdbx - Fix robust mutex detection on glibc 2.10-11 (ITS#8330)
+	n/a for mdbx - Check for utf8_to_utf16 failures (ITS#7992)
+	Catch strdup failure in mdb_dbi_open
 	Build
 		already done for mdbx - Additional makefile var tweaks (ITS#8169)
+	Documentation
+		Add Getting Started page
 
 
 LMDB 0.9.17 Release (2015/11/30)
diff --git a/lmdb.h b/lmdb.h
index 091b9beb..205567df 100644
--- a/lmdb.h
+++ b/lmdb.h
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ typedef int mdb_filehandle_t;
 /** Library minor version */
 #define MDB_VERSION_MINOR	9
 /** Library patch version */
-#define MDB_VERSION_PATCH	17
+#define MDB_VERSION_PATCH	42
 
 /** Combine args a,b,c into a single integer for easy version comparisons */
 #define MDB_VERINT(a,b,c)	(((a) << 24) | ((b) << 16) | (c))