diff --git a/.release-please-manifest-individual.json b/.release-please-manifest-individual.json
index a581f3798218..1b775267ba01 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest-individual.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest-individual.json
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
   "bigtable": "1.32.0",
   "datastore": "1.19.0",
   "errorreporting": "0.3.1",
-  "firestore": "1.17.0",
+  "firestore": "1.18.0",
   "logging": "1.11.0",
   "profiler": "0.4.1",
   "pubsub": "1.43.0",
diff --git a/firestore/CHANGES.md b/firestore/CHANGES.md
index 0e53d9e87d1e..ddb563b9adbd 100644
--- a/firestore/CHANGES.md
+++ b/firestore/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,5 +1,17 @@
 # Changes
 
+## [1.18.0](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/compare/firestore/v1.17.0...firestore/v1.18.0) (2024-09-20)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* **firestore:** Surfacing the error returned from the service in Bulkwriter ([#10826](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/issues/10826)) ([9ae039a](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/commit/9ae039a38856133a2bde4c3bd70155d17538c974))
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* **firestore:** Add UTF-8 validation ([#10881](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/issues/10881)) ([9199843](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/commit/9199843947bc3a0fa415dba50ba2221850e0fbad))
+
 ## [1.17.0](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/compare/firestore/v1.16.0...firestore/v1.17.0) (2024-09-11)
 
 
diff --git a/firestore/internal/version.go b/firestore/internal/version.go
index 6607c695d5cb..ddddbd21f21f 100644
--- a/firestore/internal/version.go
+++ b/firestore/internal/version.go
@@ -15,4 +15,4 @@
 package internal
 
 // Version is the current tagged release of the library.
-const Version = "1.17.0"
+const Version = "1.18.0"