diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index e80c7a696f5..e140bc148cb 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -16,6 +16,16 @@ from older versions of FreeBSD, try WITHOUT_CLANG and WITH_GCC to bootstrap to
 the tip of head, and then rebuild without this option. The bootstrap process
 from older version of current across the gcc/clang cutover is a bit fragile.
 
+20181219	p18	FreeBSD-SA-18:15.bootpd
+			FreeBSD-EN-18:17.vm
+			FreeBSD-EN-18:18.zfs
+
+	bootpd: validate hardware type [SA-18:15.bootpd]
+
+	Update the free page count when blacklisting pages. [EN-18:17.vm]
+
+	Resolve a hang in ZFS during vnode reclamation [EN-18:18.zfs]
+
 20181204	p17	FreeBSD-SA-18:14.bhyve
 
 	Fix insufficient bounds checking in bhyve(8) device model.
diff --git a/sys/conf/newvers.sh b/sys/conf/newvers.sh
index bb0e3d23950..f2caf66dca8 100644
--- a/sys/conf/newvers.sh
+++ b/sys/conf/newvers.sh
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 
 TYPE="FreeBSD"
 REVISION="11.1"
-BRANCH="RELEASE-p17"
+BRANCH="RELEASE-p18"
 if [ -n "${BRANCH_OVERRIDE}" ]; then
 	BRANCH=${BRANCH_OVERRIDE}
 fi