diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 47522be3cb7..efff2b3bba5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ Make sure you activated the full features of the tokio crate on Cargo.toml:
 
 ```toml
 [dependencies]
-tokio = { version = "1.18.0", features = ["full"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.18.1", features = ["full"] }
 ```
 Then, on your main.rs:
 
diff --git a/tokio/CHANGELOG.md b/tokio/CHANGELOG.md
index 63fb1d46f09..72d667f9d67 100644
--- a/tokio/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/tokio/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+# 1.18.1 (May 2, 2022)
+
+The 1.18.0 release broke the build for targets without 64-bit atomics when
+building with `tokio_unstable`. This release fixes that. ([#4649])
+
+[#4649]: https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio/pull/4649
+
 # 1.18.0 (April 27, 2022)
 
 This release adds a number of new APIs in `tokio::net`, `tokio::signal`, and
diff --git a/tokio/Cargo.toml b/tokio/Cargo.toml
index 369186eb678..1b628e84f04 100644
--- a/tokio/Cargo.toml
+++ b/tokio/Cargo.toml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ name = "tokio"
 #   - README.md
 # - Update CHANGELOG.md.
 # - Create "v1.0.x" git tag.
-version = "1.18.0"
+version = "1.18.1"
 edition = "2018"
 rust-version = "1.49"
 authors = ["Tokio Contributors <team@tokio.rs>"]
diff --git a/tokio/README.md b/tokio/README.md
index 47522be3cb7..efff2b3bba5 100644
--- a/tokio/README.md
+++ b/tokio/README.md
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ Make sure you activated the full features of the tokio crate on Cargo.toml:
 
 ```toml
 [dependencies]
-tokio = { version = "1.18.0", features = ["full"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.18.1", features = ["full"] }
 ```
 Then, on your main.rs: