diff --git a/.changes/pre.json b/.changes/pre.json
index 9b8e8f3da..4ecacaa42 100644
--- a/.changes/pre.json
+++ b/.changes/pre.json
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
     ".changes/remove-account.md",
     ".changes/remove-duplicated-event.md",
     ".changes/renaming.md",
+    ".changes/revert-strip.md",
     ".changes/stardust-release.md",
     ".changes/stronghold-update.md",
     ".changes/types.md",
diff --git a/bindings/nodejs/CHANGELOG.md b/bindings/nodejs/CHANGELOG.md
index 8cc906783..e149e1ddb 100644
--- a/bindings/nodejs/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/bindings/nodejs/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## \[2.0.2-alpha.18]
+
+- Striping index.node from the correct path
+  - [e9cc4b7c](https://github.com/iotaledger/wallet.rs/commit/e9cc4b7ca7fa377b6c8dd982a826c2552869f9f9) fix: workflow doesn't support matrix exclusions ([#1374](https://github.com/iotaledger/wallet.rs/pull/1374)) on 2022-08-19
+
 ## \[2.0.2-alpha.17]
 
 - Fixed prebuilds for nodejs bindings.
diff --git a/bindings/nodejs/package.json b/bindings/nodejs/package.json
index bbaef894a..eb201c56f 100644
--- a/bindings/nodejs/package.json
+++ b/bindings/nodejs/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@iota/wallet",
-  "version": "2.0.2-alpha.17",
+  "version": "2.0.2-alpha.18",
   "description": "Node.js binding to the wallet library",
   "main": "out/lib/index.js",
   "types": "out/lib/index.d.ts",