From 39882919b899a8a4d9a264da2185c52e7b3055dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Koichi ITO <koic.ito@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 30 May 2026 03:18:34 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] Release 0.18.0

New features and changes have landed, making it a good time to cut a release.
Further feature proposals can be incorporated in future releases.
---
 CHANGELOG.md       | 15 +++++++++++++++
 lib/mcp/version.rb |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index cb3dd6ef..afed4929 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,21 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [0.18.0] - 2026-05-30
+
+### Added
+
+- Support server-to-client `ping` per MCP specification (#358)
+
+### Changed
+
+- Warn on implicit stdio initialization (#338)
+- Cache `Tool::Schema` validation to avoid re-validating identical schemas (#363)
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Fix case-sensitive `Accept` header comparison (#359)
+
 ## [0.17.0] - 2026-05-19
 
 ### Added
diff --git a/lib/mcp/version.rb b/lib/mcp/version.rb
index ff392d29..eea2cb40 100644
--- a/lib/mcp/version.rb
+++ b/lib/mcp/version.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # frozen_string_literal: true
 
 module MCP
-  VERSION = "0.17.0"
+  VERSION = "0.18.0"
 end