diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 580b8fb..b20bfe2 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-    ".": "0.17.0"
+    ".": "0.18.0"
 }
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 49f6635..f54a2f5 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [0.18.0](https://github.com/nodejs/orchestrion-js/compare/code-transformer-v0.17.0...code-transformer-v0.18.0) (2026-07-10)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* make astQuery a first-class feature ([#86](https://github.com/nodejs/orchestrion-js/issues/86)) ([df093ff](https://github.com/nodejs/orchestrion-js/commit/df093ffcabcf686bf033af42cd7d6ab47890e21e))
+
 ## [0.17.0](https://github.com/nodejs/orchestrion-js/compare/code-transformer-v0.16.0...code-transformer-v0.17.0) (2026-07-05)
 
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 3e7b8e3..1e22be9 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@apm-js-collab/code-transformer",
-  "version": "0.17.0",
+  "version": "0.18.0",
   "license": "Apache-2.0",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",