--- a/RELEASE_NOTES	Mon Nov 18 18:33:01 2013 +0100
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES	Mon Nov 18 08:35:19 2013 -0800
@@ -9,31 +9,28 @@
 Consult the file CHANGES.html for more detailed information about changed
 API and behavior across ns-3 releases.
 
-Release 3-dev
-=============
+Release 3.18.1
+==============
+
+This release is mainly to provide updated compiler support (clang/LLVM)
+and fix the Python API scanning facility.  A few additional bug fixes
+and new features are described below.
 
 Availability
 ------------
-This release is not yet available.
+This release is available from:
+http://www.nsnam.org/release/ns-allinone-3.18.1.tar.bz2
 
 Supported platforms
 -------------------
-
-New user-visible features
--------------------------
-
-Bugs fixed
-----------
-
-Release 3.18.1
-==============
-
-Availability
-------------
-This release is not yet available.
-
-Supported platforms
--------------------
+These platforms have been tested; others may work also:
+- Fedora Core 19 (32/64 bit) with g++-4.8.1
+- Ubuntu 13.10 (64 bit) with g++-4.8.1
+- Ubuntu 12.04.3 (32/64 bit) with g++-4.6.3
+- Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS (64 bit) with g++-4.4.3
+- OS X Mavericks 10.9 with Xcode 5.0.1 and clang-500.2.79
+- OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 with Xcode 5 and g++-4.2.1
+- FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE (64 bit) with clang-3.3
 
 New user-visible features
 -------------------------