MAINT: Prepare master for 1.18.0 development.

- Create release notes.
- Update pavement.py.
- Update setup.py

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 7dd87da8a..11e16413a 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ Operating System :: MacOS
 """
 
 MAJOR               = 1
-MINOR               = 17
+MINOR               = 18
 MICRO               = 0
 ISRELEASED          = False
 VERSION             = '%d.%d.%d' % (MAJOR, MINOR, MICRO)