diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 7165ae7..b6ccef9 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,9 +1,20 @@
 # master (unpublished)
+
+- no changes
+
+# v0.18.0 (latest)
+
+### general
+
 - `fast_elim` flag now also exposed via `learn_network`
-- fix bug that prevented combining sparse .biom data with non-numeric meta data (issue #20, thanks **@ARW-UBT** for reporting)
 - fixed documentation for `save_network`/`load_network` to drop outdated .tsv/.csv mention (thanks **@ARW-UBT** for reporting)
+- update dependency versions
+
+### bug fixes
+
+- fix bug that prevented combining sparse .biom data with non-numeric meta data (issue #20, thanks **@ARW-UBT** for reporting)
 
-# v0.17.0 (latest)
+# v0.17.0
 
 ### general
 - Julia versions < 1.2 are no longer supported; this change was necessary for the interleaved parallelism
diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 85c41cc..84692e7 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ keywords = ["metagenomics", "microbiome", "probabilistic-graphical-models", "hig
 license = "GPL-3.0"
 desc = "Inference of microbial interaction networks from large-scale heterogeneous abundance data"
 authors = ["Janko Tackmann <janko.tackmann@gmail.com>"]
-version = "0.17.0"
+version = "0.17.1"
 
 [deps]
 Combinatorics = "861a8166-3701-5b0c-9a16-15d98fcdc6aa"
@@ -28,15 +28,15 @@ StatsBase = "2913bbd2-ae8a-5f71-8c99-4fb6c76f3a91"
 
 [compat]
 Combinatorics = "0.7, 1"
-DataStructures = "0.17"
-Distributions = "0.21"
-FileIO = "1"
-HDF5 = "0.12"
-JLD2 = "0.2"
+DataStructures = "0.17, 0.18"
+Distributions = "0.21, 0.22, 0.23, 0.24"
+FileIO = "1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4"
+HDF5 = "0.12, 0.13, 0.14"
+JLD2 = "0.2, 0.3"
 JSON = "0.21"
-LightGraphs = "1"
-SimpleWeightedGraphs = "1"
-StatsBase = "0.32"
+LightGraphs = "1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3"
+SimpleWeightedGraphs = "1, 1.1"
+StatsBase = "0.32, 0.33"
 julia = "1.2"
 
 [extras]