diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e223e12aa1e3c73cdda0d99fee3e98c46f8f6af8..e5ac6029df35d1ea99450caab707f82fe7c36c7a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ the future development of Gluon.
 
 Please refrain from using the `master` branch for anything else but development purposes!
 Use the most recent release instead. You can list all releases by running `git tag`
-and switch to one by running `git checkout v2017.1.8 && make update`.
+and switch to one by running `git checkout v2018.1 && make update`.
 
 If you're using the autoupdater, do not autoupdate nodes with anything but releases.
 If you upgrade using random master commits the nodes *will break* eventually.
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 623d4795b24b6488c4ef56d74fa0100edbd5581e..d035119bb28e47ddcbe46ccfb81a2417a390b46e 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -54,9 +54,9 @@ copyright = '2015-2018, Project Gluon'
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = '2017.1+'
+version = '2018.1'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '2017.1+'
+release = '2018.1'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.
diff --git a/docs/releases/v2018.1.rst b/docs/releases/v2018.1.rst
index 20e5729e17ef7f093accbeaec08753210653ebb3..7132b0cf6148dac0f99484e587d9c3776f97981b 100644
--- a/docs/releases/v2018.1.rst
+++ b/docs/releases/v2018.1.rst
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-Gluon 2018.1 (in development)
-#############################
+Gluon 2018.1
+############
 
 Important notes
 ***************
diff --git a/docs/site-example/site.conf b/docs/site-example/site.conf
index 68f0d294292161d7013767d7906cb1d3962896cd..6b52d53a3b7897fba19685e19fe32ef81cd59461 100644
--- a/docs/site-example/site.conf
+++ b/docs/site-example/site.conf
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
--- This is an example site configuration for Gluon v2017.1+
+-- This is an example site configuration for Gluon v2018.1
 --
 -- Take a look at the documentation located at
 -- http://gluon.readthedocs.org/ for details.
diff --git a/docs/user/getting_started.rst b/docs/user/getting_started.rst
index 0cf6ab7328acb7c81dbe38d96088d47f44da383a..e6aad4681468d41706b7a8405eae0e7f3112ad29 100644
--- a/docs/user/getting_started.rst
+++ b/docs/user/getting_started.rst
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Gluon's releases are managed using `Git tags`_. If you are just getting
 started with Gluon we recommend to use the latest stable release of Gluon.
 
 Take a look at the `list of gluon releases`_ and notice the latest release,
-e.g. *v2017.1.8*. Always get Gluon using git and don't try to download it
+e.g. *v2018.1*. Always get Gluon using git and don't try to download it
 as a Zip archive as the archive will be missing version information.
 
 Please keep in mind that there is no "default Gluon" build; a site configuration
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Building the images
 -------------------
 
 To build Gluon, first check out the repository. Replace *RELEASE* with the
-version you'd like to checkout, e.g. *v2017.1.8*.
+version you'd like to checkout, e.g. *v2018.1*.
 
 ::