diff --git a/package/micropython/micropython.hash b/package/micropython/micropython.hash
index d5045e8f27..6beea78bc7 100644
--- a/package/micropython/micropython.hash
+++ b/package/micropython/micropython.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 #locally computed
-sha256  c21dbf8144237b3dbe3847c9ad5264cd0f3104eb078c810b3986004cce8fcd70  micropython-1.17.tar.gz
-sha256  59b1f0947a87c90d0d29dbe2c8deb3d1f8263bbbd2fb5ebcc79a649cff6dfcba  LICENSE
+sha256  d804a422872c6fe283c6e4fd392698472035b34b5a683ac26adbd5c7582267f9  micropython-1.18.tar.gz
+sha256  0f678c2abd7fe2cfca36693630506bbcbdfc219bd04bf4a02fe3b094ae4c666f  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/micropython/micropython.mk b/package/micropython/micropython.mk
index 55c00ba08a..d8ba5ac0c0 100644
--- a/package/micropython/micropython.mk
+++ b/package/micropython/micropython.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-MICROPYTHON_VERSION = 1.17
+MICROPYTHON_VERSION = 1.18
 MICROPYTHON_SITE = $(call github,micropython,micropython,v$(MICROPYTHON_VERSION))
 # Micropython has a lot of code copied from other projects, and also a number
 # of submodules for various libs. However, we don't even clone the submodules,