diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index 4c1a5e1657..dda89867af 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Release 0.24.0
 
-* TileDB-Py 0.24.0 includes TileDB Embedded [2.18.0](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/releases/tag/2.18.0)
+* TileDB-Py 0.24.0 includes TileDB Embedded [2.18.2](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/releases/tag/2.18.2)
 
 ## Improvements
 
diff --git a/misc/azure-release.yml b/misc/azure-release.yml
index 373806876f..b870b2432e 100644
--- a/misc/azure-release.yml
+++ b/misc/azure-release.yml
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ stages:
       ${{ else }}:
         TILEDBPY_VERSION: 0.24.0
         # NOTE: *must* update both LIBTILEDB_VERSION and LIBTILEDB_SHA
-        LIBTILEDB_VERSION: 2.18.0
-        LIBTILEDB_SHA: 71ca8b4ddc615e2ad124fb76427df65667850e5e
+        LIBTILEDB_VERSION: 2.18.2
+        LIBTILEDB_SHA: 9ae6e1a855cbbeac1e51cac2e02bbc4e20195214
       LIBTILEDB_REPO: https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB
       TILEDB_SRC: "$(Build.Repository.Localpath)/tiledb_src"
       TILEDB_BUILD: "$(Build.Repository.Localpath)/tiledb_build"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 09a1de52eb..9180836c44 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 # - this is for builds-from-source
 # - release builds are controlled by `misc/azure-release.yml`
 # - this should be set to the current core release, not `dev`
-TILEDB_VERSION = "2.18.0"
+TILEDB_VERSION = "2.18.2"
 
 # allow overriding w/ environment variable
 TILEDB_VERSION = os.environ.get("TILEDB_VERSION") or TILEDB_VERSION