diff --git a/geoms_harmon.pro b/geoms_harmon.pro
index cd127a6384f6ab61c612e6908fb1390434428091..4c4169bac570deb695aabd68f9088555a2dd87af 100644
--- a/geoms_harmon.pro
+++ b/geoms_harmon.pro
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@
 ; 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
 ;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 function is_a_number,value
 	on_ioerror, ConversionError
@@ -107,7 +108,7 @@ PRO geoms_harmon
 	if ( iNrArgs lt 4 ) then begin
 	    print
 	    print, 'GEOMS harmonization (geoms_harmon)'
-	    print, '  Release v2.17, 2024-11-26'
+	    print, '  Release v2.18, 2024-12-10'
 	    print, '  Provides harmonization of old Envisat/Aura HDF files or older versions of GEOMS files'
 	    print, '  into most recent GEOMS compliant files.'
 	    print