diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index daa48cc8..94fd3138 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ The following packages are needed to build the software
 * autotools (autoconf, autogen, automake, autopoint, libtool)
 * pkg-config >= 0.28 (recommended)
 * doxygen (for creating the documentation)
-* gettext >= 0.18.1
+* gettext >= 0.18.2
 * libz >= 1.2.3 (the distribution may call the package zlib*, eg. zlib1g on Debian)
 * liblzma >= 5.1.1alpha (optional, if you want HTTP lzma decompression)
 * libbz2 >= 1.0.6 (optional, if you want HTTP bzip2 decompression)
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 108ab47e..2b2f03c9 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ m4_ifdef([AM_GNU_GETTEXT], [
 ])
 m4_ifdef([AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION], [
 #do not indent here
-AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.18.1])
+AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.18.2])
 ])
 
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