diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index 3448535f4f..f65f2da5c1 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 <!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
 
-<!ENTITY day          "20">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day          "21">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY month        "04">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY year         "2020">
 <!ENTITY copyrightdate "2001-&year;">
 <!ENTITY copyholder   "The BLFS Development Team">
 <!ENTITY version      "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate  "April 20th, &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate  "April 21th, &year;">
 <!ENTITY pubdate      "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
 <!ENTITY blfs-version "svn">                  <!-- svn|[release #] -->
 <!ENTITY lfs-version  "development">          <!-- x.y|development -->
diff --git a/general/prog/python2.xml b/general/prog/python2.xml
index 4bc09d74f1..b59cf91337 100644
--- a/general/prog/python2.xml
+++ b/general/prog/python2.xml
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
   <!ENTITY python2-download-http
      "https://www.python.org/ftp/python/&python2-version;/Python-&python2-version;.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY python2-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY python2-md5sum        "b3b6d2c92f42a60667814358ab9f0cfd">
-  <!ENTITY python2-size          "12 MB">
+  <!ENTITY python2-md5sum        "fd6cc8ec0a78c44036f825e739f36e5a">
+  <!ENTITY python2-size          "12.2 MB">
   <!ENTITY python2-buildsize     "134 MB (add 17 MB for tests)">
   <!ENTITY python2-time          "0.7 SBU (Using parallelism=4; add 7.1 SBU for tests)">
 
diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index cbc2f645db..99eeb6765a 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -42,6 +42,16 @@
     </listitem>
     -->
 
+    <listitem>
+      <para>April 21th, 2020</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[thomas] - Update to final Python-2.7.18. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;13433">#13433</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
     <listitem>
       <para>April 20th, 2020</para>
       <itemizedlist>
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index aa9d098a0c..3ab5cbfbfb 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ to avoid building libxml2 twice, which is slow with all deps -->
 <!ENTITY php-version                  "7.4.5">
 
 <!ENTITY python2-majorver             "2.7">
-<!ENTITY python2-patch                "17">
+<!ENTITY python2-patch                "18">
 <!ENTITY python2-version              "&python2-majorver;.&python2-patch;">
 
 <!ENTITY python3-major                "3">