From e9ce7fa931736f61b6fe3fd59965945325407723 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Asankhaya Sharma <codelion@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 10:30:42 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Update _version.py

bump version for new release
---
 openevolve/_version.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/openevolve/_version.py b/openevolve/_version.py
index f095f8021..b5503c66a 100644
--- a/openevolve/_version.py
+++ b/openevolve/_version.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 """Version information for openevolve package."""
 
-__version__ = "0.2.17"
+__version__ = "0.2.18"