diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0d68ac0..e32f45a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@ the GitHub Release body, so a release with no entry here fails.
 
 Versioning follows [docs/versioning.md](docs/versioning.md).
 
+## [0.18.0] - 2026-10-13
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Compaction now counts `reasoning_content` in loop and middleware token estimates and drops it from older assistant turns (Tier 1 keeps at least the latest turn, or the last `keep_tool_result` turns when greater than one; tool-result compression and the Tier 2 input keep only the latest). Long `thinking_format: reasoning_content` runs previously looked ~19x smaller than their real prompts, so compaction rarely fired; expect compaction to trigger earlier and prompts to shrink on those profiles. Proxy compatibility was verified with llm-hub deepseek-flash; the self-hosted DSV4 checkpoint and long-task quality were not tested.
+
 ## [0.17.0] - 2026-10-09
 
 ### Added
diff --git a/changes/79.fix.md b/changes/79.fix.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5da435e..0000000
--- a/changes/79.fix.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Compaction now counts `reasoning_content` in loop and middleware token estimates and drops it from older assistant turns (Tier 1 keeps at least the latest turn, or the last `keep_tool_result` turns when greater than one; tool-result compression and the Tier 2 input keep only the latest). Long `thinking_format: reasoning_content` runs previously looked ~19x smaller than their real prompts, so compaction rarely fired; expect compaction to trigger earlier and prompts to shrink on those profiles.
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 30bc88a..70aab8a 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "apodex-agent-core"
-version = "0.17.0"
+version = "0.18.0"
 description = "Shared, product-neutral runtime primitives for Apodex agents"
 readme = "README.md"
 license = "Apache-2.0"
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
index b8b8a1d..5b39e9e 100644
--- a/uv.lock
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ wheels = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "apodex-agent-core"
-version = "0.17.0"
+version = "0.18.0"
 source = { editable = "." }
 dependencies = [
     { name = "anthropic", extra = ["bedrock"] },