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 # ongoing development
 
-* This release of the R package builds against [TileDB 2.18.0](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/releases/tag/2.18.0) and [TileDB 2.18.1](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/releases/tag/2.18.1), , and has also been tested against earlier releases as well as the development version (#620,#621)
+* This release of the R package builds against [TileDB 2.18.0](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/releases/tag/2.18.0), [TileDB 2.18.1](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/releases/tag/2.18.1),  [TileDB 2.18.2](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/releases/tag/2.18.2) and has also been tested against earlier releases as well as the development version (#620,#621,#624)
 
 ## Improvements
 
-* Use of TileDB Embedded was upgraded to release 2.18.0 (#620) and 2.18.1 (#621)
+* Use of TileDB Embedded was upgraded to release 2.18.0 (#620), 2.18.1 (#621), and 2.18.2 (#624)
+
+* Support for Aggregates has been added (#623)
 
 ## Bug Fixes
 
@@ -14,6 +16,8 @@
 
 * Some tests were refactored slightly for greater robustness (#618)
 
+* Support for download and build with an external TileDB Core source tarball has been added (#622)
+
 ## Documentation
 
 * The README now contains badges for the r-universe and Anaconda versions (in addition to CRAN) (#617)
diff --git a/tools/tiledbVersion.txt b/tools/tiledbVersion.txt
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-version: 2.18.1
-sha: fe4544c
+version: 2.18.2
+sha: 9ae6e1a