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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2026 22:06:06 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] chore(main): release 9.18.1

---
 .release-please-manifest.json | 2 +-
 CHANGELOG.md                  | 7 +++++++
 PROVENANCE.md                 | 2 +-
 ldclient/version.py           | 2 +-
 pyproject.toml                | 2 +-
 5 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index f660899e..eee1b710 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  ".": "9.18.0"
+  ".": "9.18.1"
 }
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b2dba371..7ce1a771 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,13 @@
 
 All notable changes to the LaunchDarkly Python SDK will be documented in this file. This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org).
 
+## [9.18.1](https://github.com/launchdarkly/python-server-sdk/compare/9.18.0...9.18.1) (2026-10-06)
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* Reuse an in-flight big segment status poll instead of always querying twice ([#535](https://github.com/launchdarkly/python-server-sdk/issues/535)) ([66013b5](https://github.com/launchdarkly/python-server-sdk/commit/66013b520f448cf6cda3d6377cde93d8bb31b19c))
+
 ## [9.18.0](https://github.com/launchdarkly/python-server-sdk/compare/9.17.0...9.18.0) (2026-09-25)
 
 
diff --git a/PROVENANCE.md b/PROVENANCE.md
index 248eb3f9..ddcfcda8 100644
--- a/PROVENANCE.md
+++ b/PROVENANCE.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ To verify build provenance attestations, we recommend using the [GitHub CLI `att
 <!-- x-release-please-start-version -->
 ```
 # Set the version of the SDK to verify
-SDK_VERSION=9.18.0
+SDK_VERSION=9.18.1
 ```
 <!-- x-release-please-end -->
 
diff --git a/ldclient/version.py b/ldclient/version.py
index 9778ac5e..ca5232f0 100644
--- a/ldclient/version.py
+++ b/ldclient/version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-VERSION = "9.18.0"  # x-release-please-version
+VERSION = "9.18.1"  # x-release-please-version
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index d0f17c70..2d9f34e2 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "launchdarkly-server-sdk"
-version = "9.18.0"
+version = "9.18.1"
 description = "LaunchDarkly SDK for Python"
 authors = [
     {name = "LaunchDarkly", email = "dev@launchdarkly.com"}