diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES_LATEST.md b/RELEASE_NOTES_LATEST.md
index 7e441fb2..c2f8bc42 100644
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES_LATEST.md
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@@ -11,55 +11,18 @@ pip install typedb-client=={version}
 
 
 ## New Features
-- **Protocol versioning**
-  
-  We use a new protocol API to perform a "connection open". This API does server-side protocol version compatibility checks, and replaces also our previous need to an any RPC call to check that the network is available.
-  
-  This API is called transparently during the construction of both the Core and Cluster clients, so the user does not have to do anything.
-  
-  
-- **Introduce Values to support expressions**
-  
-  Introduce the 'Value' type, which is returned as the result of an expression's computation. This change follows from https://github.com/vaticle/typeql/pull/260, which outlines the capabilities of the new expression syntax.
-  
-  Values (representing any of Long, Double, Boolean, String, or DateTime) are returned as part of `ConceptMap` answers and are subtypes of `Concept` for the time being. Their main API is made of the `.get_value()` method and `.get_value_vype()` method, along with all the standard safe downcasting methods to convert a `Concept` into a `Value`, using `Concept.is_value()` and `Concept.as_value()`.
-  
-  We also move the import location of `ValueType` from `attribute_type.py` to `concept.py`. We remove APIs like `isKeyable` from `ValueType`s.
-  
-  
-- **Support generalised annotations and uniqueness**
-  
-  We update the Typedb Protocol and TypeQL to the latest versions, which support the uniqueness annotation and generalised `Type` APIs. These generalised APIs allow querying by a set of annotations, rather than just boolean = `true|false`.
-  
-  For example, the API: `AttributeType.get_owners(onlyKey: boolean)`, has become: `AttributeType.get_owners(annotations: Set["Annotation"])`
-  
-  All usages of boolean flags to indicate key-ness should be replaced by a set of `ThingType.Annotations.KEY`. The new `@unique` annotation is available as `ThingType.Annotations.KEY`, and also usable within the APIs that accept annotations.
-  
-  
-  
-- **Add method to Cluster client to retrieve current user**
-  
-  Add an API to be able to retrieve the currently authenticated user.
-  
-  
+
 
 ## Bugs Fixed
-- **Fix Factory Badge**
-  
-  We've updated the Factory badge from the old 'Grabl' badge that is no longer active.
-  
+- **Make datetime attribute inserts and matches time-zone invariant**
   
+  Enables and fixes the BDD tests to check timezone-invariance of inserting and reading datetime attributes.
 
+  Fixes #298
+  
 ## Code Refactors
 
 
 ## Other Improvements
-- **Update release notes workflow**
-  
-  We integrate the new release notes tooling. The release notes are now to be written by a person and committed to the repo.
-  
-  
-- **Split connection test jobs**
-
-
 
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diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index cf869073..a36e9b09 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.18.0
+2.18.1