diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index a29ca8e5c5..d91b961535 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -1,5 +1,16 @@
 # Release History - open AEA
 
+## 1.18.0.post1 (2022-09-06)
+
+AEA:
+- Reverts a problematic package loading logic introduced in `1.18.0`
+
+Tests:
+- Fixes flaky tests
+
+Chores:
+- Restructures CI to avoid environment cross-effects between the package and framework tests
+
 ## 1.18.0 (2022-09-04)
 
 AEA:
diff --git a/aea/__version__.py b/aea/__version__.py
index ffd3523263..e7186d16fa 100644
--- a/aea/__version__.py
+++ b/aea/__version__.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 __title__ = "open-aea"
 __description__ = "Open Autonomous Economic Agent framework (without vendor lock-in)"
 __url__ = "https://github.com/valory-xyz/open-aea.git"
-__version__ = "1.18.0"
+__version__ = "1.18.0.post1"
 __author__ = "Valory AG"
 __license__ = "Apache-2.0"
 __copyright__ = "2021 Valory AG, 2019 Fetch.AI Limited"
diff --git a/deploy-image/Dockerfile b/deploy-image/Dockerfile
index c651288765..e9f3f195d3 100644
--- a/deploy-image/Dockerfile
+++ b/deploy-image/Dockerfile
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ RUN apk add --no-cache go
 
 # aea installation
 RUN pip install --upgrade pip
-RUN pip install --upgrade --force-reinstall open-aea[all]==1.18.0 "open-aea-cli-ipfs<2.0.0,>=1.18.0"
+RUN pip install --upgrade --force-reinstall open-aea[all]==1.18.0.post1 "open-aea-cli-ipfs<2.0.0,>=1.18.0"
 
 # directories and aea cli config
 WORKDIR /home/agents
diff --git a/deploy-image/README.md b/deploy-image/README.md
index 287b752aba..a865977c6a 100644
--- a/deploy-image/README.md
+++ b/deploy-image/README.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ The example uses the `fetchai/my_first_aea` project. You will likely want to mod
 Install subversion, then download the example directory to your local working directory
 
 ``` bash
-svn checkout https://github.com/valory-xyz/open-aea/tags/v1.18.0/packages packages
+svn checkout https://github.com/valory-xyz/open-aea/tags/v1.18.0.post1/packages packages
 ```
 
 ### Modify scripts
diff --git a/develop-image/docker-env.sh b/develop-image/docker-env.sh
index b483f11d27..073be51626 100755
--- a/develop-image/docker-env.sh
+++ b/develop-image/docker-env.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 # Swap the following lines if you want to work with 'latest'
-DOCKER_IMAGE_TAG=valory/open-aea-develop:1.18.0
+DOCKER_IMAGE_TAG=valory/open-aea-develop:1.18.0.post1
 # DOCKER_IMAGE_TAG=valory/open-aea-develop:latest
 
 DOCKER_BUILD_CONTEXT_DIR=..
diff --git a/examples/tac_deploy/Dockerfile b/examples/tac_deploy/Dockerfile
index 9754a73624..b94c5f3051 100644
--- a/examples/tac_deploy/Dockerfile
+++ b/examples/tac_deploy/Dockerfile
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ RUN apk add --no-cache go
 
 # aea installation
 RUN python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-RUN pip install --upgrade --force-reinstall aea[all]==1.18.0
+RUN pip install --upgrade --force-reinstall aea[all]==1.18.0.post1
 
 # directories and aea cli config
 COPY /.aea /home/.aea
diff --git a/scripts/install.ps1 b/scripts/install.ps1
index e8ad5ad88d..90f802ea8b 100644
--- a/scripts/install.ps1
+++ b/scripts/install.ps1
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ function instal_choco_golang_gcc {
 }
 function install_aea {
 	echo "Install aea"
-    $output=pip install open-aea[all]==1.18.0 --force --no-cache-dir 2>&1 |out-string;
+    $output=pip install open-aea[all]==1.18.0.post1 --force --no-cache-dir 2>&1 |out-string;
     if ($LastExitCode -ne 0) {
         echo $output
         echo "AEA install failed!"
diff --git a/scripts/install.sh b/scripts/install.sh
index 0a52ab4773..483d0da940 100755
--- a/scripts/install.sh
+++ b/scripts/install.sh
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ function is_python_version_ok() {
 
 function install_aea (){
 	echo "Install AEA"
-	output=$(pip3 install --user open-aea[all]==1.18.0 --force --no-cache-dir)
+	output=$(pip3 install --user open-aea[all]==1.18.0.post1 --force --no-cache-dir)
 	if [[  $? -ne 0 ]];
 	then
 		echo "$output"
diff --git a/skaffold.yaml b/skaffold.yaml
index fb72598f90..a2fc39f0eb 100644
--- a/skaffold.yaml
+++ b/skaffold.yaml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ metadata:
 build:
   tagPolicy:
     envTemplate:
-      template: "1.18.0"
+      template: "1.18.0.post1"
   artifacts:
   - image: valory/open-aea-develop
     docker:
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ profiles:
     build:
       tagPolicy:
         envTemplate:
-          template: "1.18.0"
+          template: "1.18.0.post1"
       artifacts:
       - image: valory/open-aea-docs
         docker:
diff --git a/tests/test_docs/test_bash_yaml/md_files/bash-quickstart.md b/tests/test_docs/test_bash_yaml/md_files/bash-quickstart.md
index a2ca0e12fd..2591edd527 100644
--- a/tests/test_docs/test_bash_yaml/md_files/bash-quickstart.md
+++ b/tests/test_docs/test_bash_yaml/md_files/bash-quickstart.md
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ pip install open-aea[all]
 pip install open-aea-cli-ipfs
 ```
 ```
-svn checkout https://github.com/valory-xyz/open-aea/tags/v1.18.0/packages packages
+svn checkout https://github.com/valory-xyz/open-aea/tags/v1.18.0.post1/packages packages
 ```
 
 ``` bash
diff --git a/user-image/docker-env.sh b/user-image/docker-env.sh
index 4ea7ab9a92..b987032aad 100644
--- a/user-image/docker-env.sh
+++ b/user-image/docker-env.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 # Swap the following lines if you want to work with 'latest'
-DOCKER_IMAGE_TAG=valory/open-aea-user:1.18.0
+DOCKER_IMAGE_TAG=valory/open-aea-user:1.18.0.post1
 # DOCKER_IMAGE_TAG=valory/open-aea-user:latest
 
 DOCKER_BUILD_CONTEXT_DIR=..
diff --git a/walk.py b/walk.py
deleted file mode 100644
index a0eb0bc593..0000000000
--- a/walk.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-import os
-
-for dir, sub_dirs, files in os.walk("packages"):
-	if "__init__.py" not in files:
-		print(dir)
\ No newline at end of file