diff --git a/geoms_tc.pro b/geoms_tc.pro
index d78082e5c08d56f6b9ec06e9c0ba3de301839e18..892aa05c4b6238d81f9ae03e9e6675773ccf114e 100644
--- a/geoms_tc.pro
+++ b/geoms_tc.pro
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@
 ; 2024-10-29, v2.16 Ian Boyd  update due to fixes to geoms_tctools and idlcr8hdf
 ; 2024-11-26, v2.17 Ian Boyd  Add run-time error handling capability in geoms_qa.pro and geoms_harmon.pro
 ;                             plus fixes in idlcr8hdf and idlcr8ascii
+; 2024-12-10, v2.18 Ian Boyd  update due to fix to idlcr8ascii
 ;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 PRO geoms_tc
@@ -95,7 +96,7 @@ PRO geoms_tc
 	if ( iNrArgs ne 2 ) then begin
 		print
 		print, 'GEOMS template checker (geoms_tc)'
-		print, '  Release v2.17, 2024-11-26'
+		print, '  Release v2.18, 2024-12-10'
 		print, '  Does GEOMS template compliance checks on HDF4/5 files.'
 		print
 		print, 'usage: idl -rt=geoms_tc.sav -args [GEOMS-TE-FILE] [HDFFILE] '