diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 2c67a811..0c2c6196 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Type: Package
 Package: languageserver
 Title: Language Server Protocol
-Version: 0.3.17.9999
-Date: 2026-03-09
+Version: 0.3.18
+Date: 2026-05-01
 Authors@R: 
     c(person(given = "Randy",
              family = "Lai",
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 91624822..39ad3d79 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+# languageserver 0.3.18
+
+**Closed issues:**
+
+- Failed to run diagnostics: ! in callr subprocess. Caused by error in `call[[1L]]` (#723)
+
+**Merged pull requests:**
+
+- Bump codecov/codecov-action from 5 to 6 (#724)
+- fix: avoid rlang formatting crash in callr subprocess (#723) (#725)
+- Multi root support (#719)
+- test: enable parallel execution and streamline CI workflows (#720)
+
 # languageserver 0.3.17
 
 **Closed issues:**
diff --git a/R/task.R b/R/task.R
index d15ec774..e0f3132f 100644
--- a/R/task.R
+++ b/R/task.R
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+#' @import callr
 Task <- R6::R6Class("Task",
     private = list(
         process = NULL,