diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 5303f5f7e..0ce52b59d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+Overview of changes in lightdm 1.18.4
+
+    * Fixes for VNC and XDMCP connections
+    * Set names for XDMCP and VNC seats
+    * Use power management functions from ConsoleKit2 if available.
+    * Expose autologin-session as a hint to the greeter
+    * Fix timed autologins not using autologin-session when no session specified
+    * liblightdm-qt: Use liblightdm-gobject power methods instead of
+      re-implementing in Qt.
+    * Use SA_RESTART with SIGPIPE.
+
 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.18.3
 
     * Fix error that caused stdin to be closed. This seems to have lots of bad
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index bf4be369b..8292182de 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 
-AC_INIT(lightdm, 1.18.3)
+AC_INIT(lightdm, 1.18.4)
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR(m4)
 AC_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11 no-dist-gzip dist-xz foreign])