From c02002fc6b87d57faa479212e9c8bcc4f0e6a117 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "release-please[bot]"
 <55107282+release-please[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:35:16 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] chore(main): release firestore 1.18.0

---
 .release-please-manifest-individual.json |  2 +-
 firestore/CHANGES.md                     | 13 +++++++++++++
 firestore/internal/version.go            |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.release-please-manifest-individual.json b/.release-please-manifest-individual.json
index dc307f7183e9..d5766c8096f2 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest-individual.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest-individual.json
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
   "bigtable": "1.33.0",
   "datastore": "1.19.0",
   "errorreporting": "0.3.1",
-  "firestore": "1.17.0",
+  "firestore": "1.18.0",
   "logging": "1.12.0",
   "profiler": "0.4.1",
   "pubsub": "1.44.0",
diff --git a/firestore/CHANGES.md b/firestore/CHANGES.md
index 0e53d9e87d1e..33435bd8b3f5 100644
--- a/firestore/CHANGES.md
+++ b/firestore/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,5 +1,18 @@
 # Changes
 
+## [1.18.0](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/compare/firestore/v1.17.0...firestore/v1.18.0) (2024-10-22)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* **firestore:** Add WithCommitResponseTo TransactionOption ([#6967](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/issues/6967)) ([eb25266](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/commit/eb252663ad0bdabbd5de1767b42a69fd2aee54b2))
+* **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"