SpaceCell · pbower · Sep 19, 2026 · Sep 19, 2026 · Sep 19, 2026
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,22 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 # Minarrow Rust
 
+## 0.18.2 Minor Enhancements Release
+
+## Added
+
+- From<Arc<Value>> for `Value` and `as_any_mut` for `CustomValue`
+- Multi-type validators `resolve_batches` and `confirm_batch_dtype` for `SuperArray` when the `allow_mixed_array_batches` is on.
+
+## Optimisations
+- Improved zero init for `Matrix` supporting fast initialisation.
+
+## Bugfixes
+- Fixed `SuperArrayV::slice` returning the parent array length instead of the windowed slice portion.
+
+## Security Enhancements
+- Added Validation of `offset+len` bounds in string kernels and `Buffer::from_shared_column`. *Thank you `ksj1230` for the PR.*
+
 ## 0.18.1 - 2026-09-10 HotFix
 - This is a hot-fix release, as Decimal required a small change to ensure that precision is correctly self-describing on `Scalar`.
 - It additionally includes:

diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "minarrow"
-version = "0.18.1"
+version = "0.18.2"
 edition = "2024"
 authors = ['Peter G. Bower']
 build = "build.rs"

diff --git a/minarrow-py/Cargo.toml b/minarrow-py/Cargo.toml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ cargo-features = ["trim-paths"]
 
 [package]
 name = "minarrow-py"
-version = "0.18.1"
+version = "0.18.2"
 edition = "2024"
 authors = ["Peter G. Bower"]
 license = "Apache-2.0"

diff --git a/minarrow-py/pyproject.toml b/minarrow-py/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "maturin"
 
 [project]
 name = "minarrow"
-version = "0.18.1"
+version = "0.18.2"
 description = "Minimal, straightforward and fast SIMD-compatible Apache Arrow inter-op for Python."
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.9"

diff --git a/pyo3/CHANGELOG.md b/pyo3/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [0.18.2] - 2026-09-19
+- Bumped `minarrow` dependency from 0.18.1 to 0.18.2.
+
 ## [0.18.1] - 2026-09-10
 - Bumped `minarrow` dependency from 0.18.0 to 0.18.1.
 

diff --git a/pyo3/Cargo.lock b/pyo3/Cargo.lock
diff --git a/pyo3/Cargo.toml b/pyo3/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "minarrow-pyo3"
-version = "0.18.1"
+version = "0.18.2"
 edition = "2024"
 authors = ['Peter G. Bower']
 license = "Apache-2.0"
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ name = "minarrow_pyo3"
 crate-type = ["cdylib", "rlib"]
 
 [dependencies]
-minarrow = { version = "0.18.1", path = "..", features = ["large_string"] }
+minarrow = { version = "0.18.2", path = "..", features = ["large_string"] }
 pyo3 = { version = "0.29" }
 thiserror = "2"