diff --git a/.release-please-individual-manifest.json b/.release-please-individual-manifest.json
index 3fb44c9fd46a..cb406f77a5bb 100644
--- a/.release-please-individual-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-individual-manifest.json
@@ -18,6 +18,6 @@
   "packages/google-cloud-storage": "3.17.1",
   "packages/google-crc32c": "1.9.0",
   "packages/pandas-gbq": "0.35.3",
-  "packages/sqlalchemy-bigquery": "1.17.3",
+  "packages/sqlalchemy-bigquery": "1.18.0",
   "packages/sqlalchemy-spanner": "1.20.1"
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/librarian.yaml b/librarian.yaml
index ba829e9d37ed..0514551764b1 100644
--- a/librarian.yaml
+++ b/librarian.yaml
@@ -2691,7 +2691,7 @@ libraries:
     python:
       library_type: CORE
   - name: sqlalchemy-bigquery
-    version: 1.17.3
+    version: 1.18.0
     python:
       library_type: INTEGRATION
   - name: sqlalchemy-spanner
diff --git a/packages/sqlalchemy-bigquery/CHANGELOG.md b/packages/sqlalchemy-bigquery/CHANGELOG.md
index 0a954f3a213e..2831af4e02c8 100644
--- a/packages/sqlalchemy-bigquery/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/packages/sqlalchemy-bigquery/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,6 +8,14 @@ Older versions of this project were distributed as [pybigquery][0].
 
 [1]: https://pypi.org/project/sqlalchemy-bigquery/#history
 
+## [1.18.0](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/compare/sqlalchemy-bigquery-v1.17.3...sqlalchemy-bigquery-v1.18.0) (2026-11-04)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* **sqlalchemy-bigquery:** support BigQuery SAFE_CAST and SQLAlchemy 2.0 try_cast ([#18953](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/issues/18953)) ([931968b](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/commit/931968b1629f978175b43ae815659da26da9ac1d))
+* support Python 3.15 ([8fceef4](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/commit/8fceef49c523bcc8989abf3b6b82bcf143332d50))
+
 ## [1.17.3](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/compare/sqlalchemy-bigquery-v1.17.2...sqlalchemy-bigquery-v1.17.3) (2026-10-02)
 
 
diff --git a/packages/sqlalchemy-bigquery/sqlalchemy_bigquery/version.py b/packages/sqlalchemy-bigquery/sqlalchemy_bigquery/version.py
index 45a1be5f3683..b79b896b8cfa 100644
--- a/packages/sqlalchemy-bigquery/sqlalchemy_bigquery/version.py
+++ b/packages/sqlalchemy-bigquery/sqlalchemy_bigquery/version.py
@@ -17,4 +17,4 @@
 # IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN
 # CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
 
-__version__ = "1.17.3"
+__version__ = "1.18.0"