diff --git a/0001-tools-power-Don-t-make-man-pages-executable.patch b/0001-tools-power-Don-t-make-man-pages-executable.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 16cb72e..0000000
--- a/0001-tools-power-Don-t-make-man-pages-executable.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-From 2c54dcb09fd790cb75535f01c466725f813b8d6b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
-Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 11:43:53 -0800
-Subject: [PATCH 1/2] tools/power: Don't make man pages executable
-
-rpm-lint flagged these as being executable:
-
-kernel-tools.x86_64: W: spurious-executable-perm /usr/share/man/man8/turbostat.8.gz
-kernel-tools.x86_64: W: spurious-executable-perm /usr/share/man/man8/x86_energy_perf_policy.8.gz
-
-Fix this
-
-Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
----
- tools/power/x86/turbostat/Makefile              | 2 +-
- tools/power/x86/x86_energy_perf_policy/Makefile | 2 +-
- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/tools/power/x86/turbostat/Makefile b/tools/power/x86/turbostat/Makefile
-index a9bc914a8fe8..2ab25aa38263 100644
---- a/tools/power/x86/turbostat/Makefile
-+++ b/tools/power/x86/turbostat/Makefile
-@@ -25,4 +25,4 @@ install : turbostat
- 	install -d  $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin
- 	install $(BUILD_OUTPUT)/turbostat $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin/turbostat
- 	install -d  $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/share/man/man8
--	install turbostat.8 $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/share/man/man8
-+	install -m 644 turbostat.8 $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/share/man/man8
-diff --git a/tools/power/x86/x86_energy_perf_policy/Makefile b/tools/power/x86/x86_energy_perf_policy/Makefile
-index 2447b1bbaacf..f4534fb8b951 100644
---- a/tools/power/x86/x86_energy_perf_policy/Makefile
-+++ b/tools/power/x86/x86_energy_perf_policy/Makefile
-@@ -24,5 +24,5 @@ install : x86_energy_perf_policy
- 	install -d  $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin
- 	install $(BUILD_OUTPUT)/x86_energy_perf_policy $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin/x86_energy_perf_policy
- 	install -d  $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/share/man/man8
--	install x86_energy_perf_policy.8 $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/share/man/man8
-+	install -m 644 x86_energy_perf_policy.8 $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/share/man/man8
- 
--- 
-2.14.3
-
diff --git a/kernel-tools.spec b/kernel-tools.spec
index 21306cc..bbb227b 100644
--- a/kernel-tools.spec
+++ b/kernel-tools.spec
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # For a stable, released kernel, released_kernel should be 1. For rawhide
 # and/or a kernel built from an rc or git snapshot, released_kernel should
 # be 0.
-%global released_kernel 1
+%global released_kernel 0
 %global baserelease 1
 %global fedora_build %{baserelease}
 
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 # The next upstream release sublevel (base_sublevel+1)
 %global upstream_sublevel %(echo $((%{base_sublevel} + 1)))
 # The rc snapshot level
-%global rcrev 0
+%global rcrev 1
 # Set rpm version accordingly
 %global rpmversion 4.%{upstream_sublevel}.0
 %endif
@@ -108,7 +108,6 @@ Patch0: 0001-iio-Use-event-header-from-kernel-tree.patch
 Patch1: 0001-perf-Remove-FSF-address.patch
 Patch3: 0001-tools-include-Sync-vmx.h-header-for-FSF-removal.patch
 Patch4: 0001-tools-lib-Remove-FSF-address.patch
-Patch5: 0001-tools-power-Don-t-make-man-pages-executable.patch
 Patch6: 0002-perf-Don-t-make-sourced-script-executable.patch
 Patch8: 0001-Switch-to-python3.patch
 Name: kernel-tools
@@ -198,7 +197,6 @@ cd linux-%{kversion}
 %patch1 -p1
 %patch3 -p1
 %patch4 -p1
-%patch5 -p1
 %patch6 -p1
 %patch8 -p1
 
@@ -282,6 +280,15 @@ rm -f %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/trace
 # remove the perf-tips
 rm -rf %{buildroot}%{_docdir}/perf-tip
 
+# For both of the below, yes, this should be using a macro but right now
+# it's hard coded and we don't actually want it anyway right now.
+# Whoever wants examples can fix it up!
+
+# remove examples
+rm -rf %{buildroot}/usr/lib/examples/perf
+# remove the stray header file that somehow got packaged in examples
+rm -rf %{buildroot}/usr/lib/include/perf/bpf/bpf.h
+
 # python-perf extension
 %{perf_make} %{perf_python3} DESTDIR=%{buildroot} install-python_ext
 %{perf_make} %{perf_python2} DESTDIR=%{buildroot} install-python_ext
@@ -414,10 +421,14 @@ popd
 %{_mandir}/man8/bpftool-cgroup.8.gz
 %{_mandir}/man8/bpftool-map.8.gz
 %{_mandir}/man8/bpftool-prog.8.gz
+%{_mandir}/man8/bpftool-perf.8.gz
 %{_mandir}/man8/bpftool.8.gz
 %license linux-%{kversion}/COPYING
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Jun 18 2018 Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> - 4.18.0-0.rc1.git0.1
+- Linux v4.18-rc1
+
 * Mon Jun 04 2018 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@fedoraproject.org> - 4.17.0-1
 - Linux v4.17
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 0144b07..96cfa17 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 SHA512 (linux-4.17.tar.xz) = 4d9de340a26155a89ea8773131c76220cc2057f2b5d031b467b60e8b14c1842518e2d60a863d8c695f0f7640f3f18d43826201984a238dade857b6cef79837db
+SHA512 (patch-4.18-rc1.xz) = ead128244b67261c538b6e183eae2c8a33de3a335f6d3fee677e3c30c2345df13732140335060038537320c39716dca0ce2a7e379b30db827c8d7ea6c2fff6e3