diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 43dac1fb8..19d24cf99 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -338,10 +338,11 @@ strum_macros = { git = "https://github.com/dathere/strum", branch = "bump-phf-to
 # BUILD NOTE: Be sure to set QSV_POLARS_REV below to the latest commit short hash or tag 
 # of polars/py-polars before building qsv. This allows us to show the polars rev/tag in --version.
 # if we are using a release version of Rust Polars, leave QSV_POLARS_REV empty
-# QSV_POLARS_REV=68eec85
-# polars = { git = "https://github.com/pola-rs/polars", tag = "py-1.17.1" }
-polars = { git = "https://github.com/pola-rs/polars", rev = "68eec85" }
-polars-ops = { git = "https://github.com/pola-rs/polars", rev = "68eec85" }
+# QSV_POLARS_REV=py-1.18.0
+polars = { git = "https://github.com/pola-rs/polars", tag = "py-1.18.0" }
+# polars = { git = "https://github.com/pola-rs/polars", rev = "68eec85" }
+polars-ops = { git = "https://github.com/pola-rs/polars", tag = "py-1.18.0" }
+# polars-ops = { git = "https://github.com/pola-rs/polars", rev = "68eec85" }
 
 [features]
 default = ["mimalloc"]
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3fbfede4b..74467d155 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
 😣: uses additional memory proportional to the cardinality of the columns in the CSV.  
 🧠: expensive operations are memoized with available inter-session Redis/Disk caching for fetch commands.  
 🗄️: [Extended input support](#extended-input-support).  
-🐻‍❄️: command powered by [![polars 0.45.1](https://img.shields.io/badge/polars-0.45.1-blue)](https://github.com/pola-rs/polars/releases/tag/rs-0.45.1).  
+🐻‍❄️: command powered by [![polars 0.45.1](https://img.shields.io/badge/polars-0.45.1-blue) at the py-1.18.0 tag](https://github.com/pola-rs/polars/releases/tag/py-1.18.0).  
 🤖: command uses Natural Language Processing & General AI techniques.  
 🏎️: multithreaded and/or faster when an index (📇) is available.  
 🚀: multithreaded even without an index.