diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
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+## main / (unreleased)
+
+* [CHANGE] ...
+* [FEATURE] ...
+* [ENHANCEMENT] ...
+* [BUGFIX] ...
+
+## 0.18.0 / 2025-09-25
+
+* [FEATURE] Add `stat_progress_vacuum` collector by @ianbibby in https://github.com/prometheus-community/postgres_exporter/pull/1141
+* [FEATURE] Add `buffercache_summary` collector by @sfc-gh-pnuttall in https://github.com/prometheus-community/postgres_exporter/pull/1165
+* [FEATURE] `stat_statements`: export query itself together with `queryId` by @Delorien84 in https://github.com/prometheus-community/postgres_exporter/pull/940
+* [ENHANCEMENT] Improve error handling for `Server.Scrape` by @BoweFlex in https://github.com/prometheus-community/postgres_exporter/pull/1158
+* [ENHANCEMENT] `stat_user_tables`: record table-only size bytes in addition to the total size bytes by @Sticksman Sticksman in https://github.com/prometheus-community/postgres_exporter/pull/1149
+* [ENHANCEMENT] (chore) Fix a typo and use `slices.Contains` by @cristiangreco in https://github.com/prometheus-community/postgres_exporter/pull/1176
+* [ENHANCEMENT] Update mixin to latest changes from `grafana/postgres_exporter` by @cristiangreco, @gaantunes, @v-zhuravlev and @mshahzeb in https://github.com/prometheus-community/postgres_exporter/pull/1179
+* [ENHANCEMENT] Exclude the metrics fetching session's data from pg_stat_activity by @kmoppel in https://github.com/prometheus-community/postgres_exporter/pull/1185
+* [BUGFIX] Ensure database connections are always closed by @cristiangreco and @dehaansa in https://github.com/prometheus-community/postgres_exporter/pull/1177
+* [BUGFIX] Fix superfluous semicolon breaking query in `process_idle` by @sysadmind in https://github.com/prometheus-community/postgres_exporter/pull/1197
+
 ## 0.17.1 / 2025-02-26
 
 * [BUGFIX] Fix: Handle incoming labels with invalid UTF-8 #1131
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-0.17.1
+0.18.0