diff --git a/Directory.Packages.props b/Directory.Packages.props
index 0942a49..0bfb15e 100644
--- a/Directory.Packages.props
+++ b/Directory.Packages.props
@@ -118,8 +118,8 @@
     <PackageVersion Include="Polly.Extensions.Http" Version="3.0.0" />
 
     <!-- Search (Lucene.NET — picked over Tantivy per docs/plan.md §13.3) -->
-    <PackageVersion Include="Lucene.Net" Version="4.8.0-beta00017" />
-    <PackageVersion Include="Lucene.Net.Analysis.Common" Version="4.8.0-beta00017" />
+    <PackageVersion Include="Lucene.Net" Version="4.8.0-beta00018" />
+    <PackageVersion Include="Lucene.Net.Analysis.Common" Version="4.8.0-beta00018" />
     <PackageVersion Include="Lucene.Net.QueryParser" Version="4.8.0-beta00017" />
 
     <!-- Multi-pattern string matching (Aho-Corasick) — backs the in-house YARA-lite scanner. -->