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MGMT-21849 : Skip arping for remote IPs not in outgoing NIC’s subnet #1332
And 5 elided commits (e.g. from squash or rebase merges)
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OCPBUGS-80254 : Replace google.golang.org/grpc with github.com/openshift-sustaining/grpc-go v1.71.3-sec.1 to avoid go version bump and fix CVE-2026-33186 #180
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OCPBUGS-57112 : Updating ose-etcd-container image to be consistent with ART for 4.18 #333
Revert “ETCD-727: Rebase etcd 3.5.21 openshift 4.18” #332
ETCD-727 : Rebase etcd 3.5.21 openshift 4.18 #325
OCPBUGS-55724 : Add configurable option for hardware-related timeout delay #328
DOWNSTREAM: <carry>: OCPBUGS-51971: fix a compaction induce latency issue #312
ETCD-708 : Rebase etcd 3.5.18 openshift 4.18 #307
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OCPBUGS-81647 : bump vpc go sdk #91
NO-JIRA: Modernize test infrastructure to align with other MAPI providers #87
OCPBUGS-47135 : CVE-2024-45338 ose-ibmcloud-machine-controllers-container: Non-linear parsing of case-insensitive content in golang.org/x/net/html [openshift-4.18] #69
OCPBUGS-52872 : IBMCloud: MAPI replacing unhealthy CP nodes #62
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OCPBUGS-62793 : Use netlinksafe instead of netlink to avoid netlink.ErrDumpInterrupted #99
OCPBUGS-58095 : Bump github.com/containernetworking/plugins from to 1.7.1 #79
OCPBUGS-57794 : Updating ose-network-interface-bond-cni-container image to be consistent with ART for 4.18 #74
NO-JIRA: Add ci-operator yaml file #78
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NO-JIRA: (chore): update OWNERS file #170
OCPBUGS-65841 : UPSTREAM: <carry>: bump kubernetes-apiserver to pick up loopback certificate expiration update #155
OCPBUGS-63050 : (bugfix): useroauthaccesstokens: cast delete validation object to correct type for admission #149
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OCPBUGS-86230 : Branch Sync release-4.19 to release-4.18 [05-19-2026] #3197
OCPBUGS-74399 , OCPBUGS-85434 : Branch Sync release-4.19 to release-4.18 [05-12-2026] #3184
OCPBUGS-77151 , OCPBUGS-83567 : Branch Sync release-4.19 to release-4.18 [04-16-2026] #3143
OCPBUGS-82148 : Branch Sync release-4.19 to release-4.18 [04-05-2026] #3117
OCPBUGS-81479 : node: fix serviceUpdateNotNeeded nil pointer comparison #3101
OCPBUGS-78015 : Add pperiyasamy to OWNERS for release-4.18 #3045
OCPBUGS-77516 : Clear stale conntrack UDP entries for nodePorts #3016
OCPBUGS-77083 , OCPBUGS-77106 : [release-4.18] combined backport PR for 2 escalations #2987
OCPBUGS-48710 : Branch Sync release-4.19 to release-4.18 [02-04-2026] #2970
OCPBUGS-74270 : release-4.18 fix(localnet, ipamless): Prevent LSP deletion on sync #2943
OCPBUGS-70346 : Branch Sync release-4.19 to release-4.18 [01-07-2026] #2922
OCPBUGS-66140 : Branch Sync release-4.19 to release-4.18 [12-31-2025] #2916
CORENET-6055 , OCPBUGS-48710 , OCPBUGS-66360 , OCPBUGS-66381 , OCPBUGS-66428 : Branch Sync release-4.19 to release-4.18 [12-03-2025] #2895
OCPBUGS-68347 : Add ricky-rav to OWNERS for release-4.18 #2897
OCPBUGS-64855 : Fix stale EIP assignments during failover and controller restart #2849
OCPBUGS-64780 : kubevirt: fix bad release of IPs of live migratable pods #2847
OCPBUGS-63459 : Branch Sync release-4.19 to release-4.18 [10-22-2025] #2825
OCPBUGS-63716 : Skip Pending pods in EgressIP status updates #2836
OCPBUGS-48710 : [release-4.18] DownStream Merge Sync from 4.19 [10-16-2025] #2811
OCPBUGS-62671 : Fix EgressIP stale GARP post reboot + pod restart #2775
OCPBUGS-59744 , OCPBUGS-61455 : [4.18] allow default network -> localnet on the same node for any localnet subnet #2785
OCPBUGS-61748 : [release-4.18] DownStream Merge Sync from 4.19 [10-02-2025] #2777
OCPBUGS-59680 : [release-4.18] DownStream Merge Sync from 4.19 [09-29-2025] #2768
OCPBUGS-48710 : Update OWNERS file: Add Patryk/Martin as approvers #2700
OCPBUGS-59371 : EIP OVN controller: stop pod config flap #2703
OCPBUGS-59531 : EgressIP: fix startup syncer #2690
OCPBUGS-59623 : Revert “unpin libreswan version” #2678
OCPBUGS-57318 , OCPBUGS-58159 : DownStream Merge Sync from 4.19 [06-26-2025] #2646
OCPBUGS-46401 , OCPBUGS-48710 , OCPBUGS-55263 : DownStream Merge Sync from 4.19 [05-28-2025] #2593
OCPBUGS-57108 : Fix hybrid overlay node subnets collision with cluster subnets #2619
OCPBUGS-57106 : Increase InformerSyncTimeout to 60s #2622
OCPBUGS-55016 : DownStream Merge Sync from 4.19 [05-08-2025] #2555
OCPBUGS-54671 : EIP no reroute: allow multiple entries for pod to pod and pod to join #2510
OCPBUGS-54187 : Update OVN to FDP25.A.1 24.09.2-41. #2495
OCPBUGS-48710 : DownStream Merge Sync from 4.19 [02-13-2025] #2470
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