4.18.31

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oc adm release extract --tools quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.18.31-x86_64

Team Approvals:

Accepted
- QE

Tests:

Blocking jobs
- upgrade Succeeded periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-stable-4.y-e2e-aws-ovn-upgrade
- upgrade-minor Succeeded periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-stable-4.y-e2e-aws-ovn-upgrade
Informing jobs
- aws-ovn-serial Succeeded periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-nightly-4.18-e2e-aws-ovn-serial
- aws-ovn-single-node-upgrade-4.18-micro Succeeded periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-ci-4.18-e2e-aws-upgrade-ovn-single-node
- aws-ovn-techpreview Succeeded periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-ci-4.18-e2e-aws-ovn-techpreview
- aws-ovn-techpreview-serial Succeeded (1 retries) periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-ci-4.18-e2e-aws-ovn-techpreview-serial
- aws-ovn-upgrade-4.18-micro Succeeded periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-ci-4.18-e2e-aws-ovn-upgrade
- azure-ovn-upgrade-4.18-micro Succeeded periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-ci-4.18-e2e-azure-ovn-upgrade
- fips-scan Succeeded periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-nightly-4.18-fips-payload-scan
- gcp-ovn-rt-upgrade-4.18-minor Succeeded periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-ci-4.18-upgrade-from-stable-4.17-e2e-gcp-ovn-rt-upgrade
- hypershift-ovn-conformance-4.18 Failed (1 retries) periodic-ci-openshift-hypershift-release-4.18-periodics-e2e-aws-ovn-conformance
- metal-ipi-ovn-bm Succeeded periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-nightly-4.18-e2e-metal-ipi-ovn-bm
- metal-ipi-ovn-ipv6 Succeeded (1 retries) periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-nightly-4.18-e2e-metal-ipi-ovn-ipv6
- microshift-ovn-conformance-parallel Failed (1 retries) periodic-ci-openshift-microshift-release-4.18-periodics-e2e-aws-ovn-ocp-conformance
- microshift-ovn-conformance-serial Failed (1 retries) periodic-ci-openshift-microshift-release-4.18-periodics-e2e-aws-ovn-ocp-conformance-serial

Upgrades from:

Untested upgrades: 4.17.15, 4.17.16, 4.17.17, 4.17.18, 4.17.19, 4.17.20, 4.17.21, 4.17.22, 4.17.23, 4.17.24, 4.17.26, 4.17.27, 4.17.28, 4.17.29, 4.17.30, 4.17.31, 4.17.32, 4.17.33, 4.17.34, 4.17.35, 4.17.36, 4.17.37, 4.17.38, 4.17.39, 4.17.40, 4.17.41, 4.17.43, 4.18.10, 4.18.11, 4.18.12, 4.18.13, 4.18.14, 4.18.15, 4.18.16, 4.18.17, 4.18.18, 4.18.19, 4.18.20, 4.18.21, 4.18.22, 4.18.23, 4.18.25, 4.18.27, 4.18.4, 4.18.5, 4.18.6, 4.18.8, 4.18.9

Upgrades to:

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Changes from 4.18.26

Created: 2026-01-08 15:00:48 +0000 UTC

Image Digest: sha256:64e8c4cbd3199beb1ebb8d6a208cb81fdfe62f4e52d7586033f534d35f981244

Components

Kubectl 1.31.1
Kubernetes upgraded from 1.31.13 to 1.31.14
Kubernetes Tests 1.31.12
Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS upgraded from 418.94.202510081222-0 to 418.94.202601071817-0 (diff)

FeatureGate Changes

FeatureGate	Default Hypershift	Default SelfManagedHA	DevPreviewNoUpgrade Hypershift	DevPreviewNoUpgrade SelfManagedHA	TechPreviewNoUpgrade Hypershift	TechPreviewNoUpgrade SelfManagedHA
StreamingCollectionEncodingToJSON (0 tests)	Enabled (New)	Enabled (New)	Enabled (New)	Enabled (New)	Enabled (New)	Enabled (New)
StreamingCollectionEncodingToProtobuf (0 tests)	Enabled (New)	Enabled (New)	Enabled (New)	Enabled (New)	Enabled (New)	Enabled (New)

Rebuilt images without code change

agent-installer-api-server git 03ef1905 sha256:4e2b13c0febb0bf890c19865fee7ba7f1c11ad0af12481f060c954ad3da2a2b4
agent-installer-csr-approver git 81d6bc27 sha256:d1c0e196418415de39af71477bca18403ce441e5d9c8a6ff6b38850e95e33b2a
agent-installer-node-agent git 32a1f2a4 sha256:b0f0f48ff6a7da67360e12d5e744ea87f74692e6e155002987091f4f4763568f
agent-installer-orchestrator git 81d6bc27 sha256:f6d3eecdddf89d9704d03687baa02d694a0328a7846e3eaf1c863a26f1f088ef
agent-installer-utils git 0e41f7d5 sha256:738ead0b6ab89213b2f8acf9e445e1ad976b64c26dd6fd8ef87ffd7bacae8147
apiserver-network-proxy git 2f62712d sha256:72f0a37477a53b658f9f51b1907d3caea86686c9add6ffde63087db7eb83557c
aws-cloud-controller-manager git c3951906 sha256:17d0d9c1079d264a00059c94e61993a9951f50506d12dff736a89dd16c225454
aws-cluster-api-controllers git f0aabeef sha256:749e2df29cae54754dd0e02de68eb5914f1eecadfb21dd10f0ac5203ca887b2a
aws-ebs-csi-driver git b51cd6b8 sha256:bbfa48a9b898554d9b7f69fb087a77dce5aed927600ffe7a54cbe1d4aff450a8
aws-kms-encryption-provider git 088dcaf7 sha256:30f5197b2f63c8c50007430b149d9501bb450f2b46c67f2a856c69a796e2e632
aws-pod-identity-webhook git f54f9a19 sha256:07606c3ca7cdaa9ca891a1f07b681784bdf70b80f83ab25515e2ef847f483190
azure-cloud-controller-manager git 9c24d768 sha256:22a7f8d14af36190a4ae2a9ac14a5b004b6066f91e809e341ab990cafde72901
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csi-livenessprobe git 3a977844 sha256:901569c77758463ca80673c2821feca0d6b4574fcf454b42abbed4f319cb7337
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vsphere-csi-driver-operator git 2b241410 sha256:7b044e940035bc1e0f88c63d14ad60c38f08e65fce4607d8b12bed00de9246c9
vsphere-csi-driver-syncer git cfcad01d sha256:dcf485379ebab5bfff28c5f15865697c70b784b6ae4a2d757b83a2603466ffc4
vsphere-problem-detector git 1a203612 sha256:3883a1d2b65635db46ff365257e4ee57cf7357e6991f2de21111ba879a20eaec

aws-ebs-csi-driver-operator, azure-disk-csi-driver-operator, azure-file-csi-driver-operator, csi-driver-manila-operator, openstack-cinder-csi-driver-operator

OCPBUGS-62664: disable e2e snapshot tests #463
OCPBUGS-63558: Add RBAC ClusterRole and Binding for driver node #454
OCPBUGS-63407: Use 127.0.0.1 for healtz http-endpoints #450
OCPBUGS-62973: Add withCABundleDaemonSetHook() to AWS EFS operator #447
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aws-machine-controllers

OCPBUGS-63138: client: re-use a single file for building the session instead of randomly named files #146
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azure-machine-controllers

OCPBUGS-65882: Set updateDomainCount to one when faultDomainCount is one #175
OCPBUGS-63669: Support datadisks on Stack Hub #167
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baremetal-installer, installer, installer-altinfra, installer-artifacts

OCPBUGS-63494: Catch gcp destroy cases where the operation is nil #10030
OCPBUGS-52659: [release-4.18] CORS-3825: pkg/infrastructure/azure: support nvme #9545
OCPBUGS-65588: Update the RHCOS 4.18 bootimage metadata #10113
OCPBUGS-58504: Refactor removing loadbalancer in OpenStack #9831
OCPBUGS-53235: Validation for API and Ingress VIPs when using user-managed load balancer #10046
OCPBUGS-62810: Update the RHCOS 4.18 bootimage metadata #10014
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baremetal-runtimecfg

OCPBUGS-60111: Re-add ENABLE_NODEIP_DEBUG env var #364
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cli, cli-artifacts, deployer, tools

OCPBUGS-65707: fix(must-gather): do not set node affinity if nodename is set #2145
OCPBUGS-64608: Help with must-gather scheduling through suggesting preferance of nodes #2127
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cloud-credential-operator

OCPBUGS-65800: ccoctl azure: retry custom role creation on consistency errors #950
OCPBUGS-65479: ccoctl: use pagination when listing resources in aws #947
OCPBUGS-63548: ccoctl: add public-key-file flag to create-all #938
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cloud-network-config-controller

OCPBUGS-65651: [release-4.18] Fix capacity calculation #193
OCPBUGS-64779: [release-4.18] Change the capacity struct from int to ptrOfInt #189
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cluster-baremetal-operator

OCPBUGS-57590: Mount the user-ca-bundle into ICC #486
OCPBUGS-63439: Always have a service for ironic-api port #514
OCPBUGS-63469: Allow provisioningIP when network disabled #515
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cluster-cloud-controller-manager-operator

OCPBUGS-63166: ccm: disable unused secure-serving port and webhook #421
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cluster-config-api

OCPBUGS-70315: Add HTTPKeepAliveTimeout to IngressController API #2638
NO-JIRA: [release-4.18] OWNERS: update approvers/reviewers #2625
OCPBUGS-67214: Introduce ClosedClientConnectionPolicy to IngressController API #2618
CNTRLPLANE-1980: Promote streaming list encoding to Default #2598
NO-JIRA: Promote streaming list encoding to Default on Hypershift. #2562
CNTRLPLANE-1610: Add feature gates for StreamingCollectionEncoding #2528
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cluster-etcd-operator

OCPBUGS-58412: bump library-go to bring in revision controller revision-ready annotation fix #1518
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cluster-ingress-operator

OCPBUGS-70315: Implement HTTPKeepAliveTimeout tuning option #1333
NO-JIRA: Add new NID team members to OWNERS #1319
OCPBUGS-67214: Implement ClosedClientConnectionPolicy field #1322
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cluster-kube-apiserver-operator

OCPBUGS-58412: bump library-go to bring in revision controller revision-ready annotation fix #1976
OCPBUGS-63119: SCC: add hostmount-anyuid-v2 #1937
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cluster-kube-controller-manager-operator

OCPBUGS-58412: bump library-go to bring in revision controller revision-ready annotation fix #897
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cluster-kube-scheduler-operator

OCPBUGS-58412: bump library-go to bring in revision controller revision-ready annotation fix #590
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cluster-monitoring-operator

OCPBUGS-67168: Add the collection of MTV migration metrics #2774
OCPBUGS-61965: add flag --watch-referenced-objects-in-all-namespaces to prometheus-operator #2723
OCPBUGS-64579: Fix KSM deny-list typo #2731
OCPBUGS-63488: Remove AlertManager endpoints when disabled #2737
OCPBUGS-62852: Add mcd_local_unsupported_packages metric from MCO to telemetry 4.18 #2702
OCPBUGS-63410: [release-4.18] allow using remoteWrite[].oauth2.proxyFromEnvironment for cluster-wide proxy #2724
OCPBUGS-63017: test: remove image registry e2e tests #2711
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cluster-network-operator

OCPBUGS-65704, OCPBUGS-65705: Annotate whereabouts-controller #2842
OCPBUGS-62671: Add drop flows for GARP #2810
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cluster-node-tuning-operator

OCPBUGS-63450: Do not cause kubelet failed dependency by ocp-tuned-one-shot.service #1417
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cluster-samples-operator

OCPBUGS-63511: references to github.com/sclorg/django-ex.git now also refer to the branch #657
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cluster-storage-operator

OCPBUGS-62666: Move metrics to vsphere driver #632
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cluster-version-operator

NO-ISSUE: hongkai becomes an approver release-4.18 #1286
OCPBUGS-62869: disable metrics auth for hypershift clusters #1242
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console

OCPBUGS-69915: PVC shows negative Available space in OpenShift Console on RHOCP 4 #15868
OCPBUGS-69448: Fixes namespace-scoped operators that were not showing as installed when viewing OperatorHub in “All Projects” mode #15855
OCPBUGS-68361: Disallowed Pipelines-plugin Pipelines navigation section #15842
OCPBUGS-65592: HPA Form View in RHOCP Web Console Incorrectly Requires Both CPU and … #15725
OCPBUGS-65932: Preserve query string in perspective switch + remove dev console folks from reviewers #15761
OCPBUGS-65533: Preserve path on perspective switch #15716
OCPBUGS-64735: Expose prometheus tenancy label path as a proxy #15685
OCPBUGS-64682: limit node log length to 1000 lines #15680
OCPBUGS-63657: Remove required flag from ‘console.flag/model’ pipelines-plugin extension #15654
OCPBUGS-63247: fix bug where Roles list was displaying invalid data f… #15619
OCPBUGS-63041: switch to dev perspective for /dev-monitoring #15601
OCPBUGS-44156: bump dompurify to latest #15589
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csi-external-snapshotter, csi-snapshot-controller, csi-snapshot-validation-webhook

OCPBUGS-63574: UPSTREAM: 1303: Fix requeueing snapshot content after deletion error #190
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csi-node-driver-registrar

OCPBUGS-63324: update log level verbosity to not clutter logs #89
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docker-builder

OCPBUGS-65655: BuildConfig inline Dockerfile fails with heredoc syntax #486
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haproxy-router

OCPBUGS-67214: Add option abortonclose to HAProxy configuration template #703
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hyperkube, kube-proxy, pod

OCPBUGS-65553: Update to Kubernetes v1.31.14 #2521
OCPBUGS-65494: Fix Concurrentmap Iteration #2512
OCPBUGS-61773: UPSTREAM: <carry>: backporting fix for concurrent map iteration and write #2456 #2475
CNTRLPLANE-1610: Backport StreamingCollectionEncoding for JSON and protobuf #2483
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hypershift

OCPBUGS-69847: test: remove unit tests that depend on network communication [release-4.18] #7406
OCPBUGS-65843: specify SCC annotation for pods in data plane #7267
CNTRLPLANE-1902: Migrate 4.18 pipelines to common pipeline template #7211
OCPBUGS-61700: use csi-resizer image from release provider #7103
OCPBUGS-63638: [release-4.18] fix(konnectivity): resolve circular dependency causing DNS timeouts and excessive retries #7111
OCPBUGS-63034: [release-4.18] Update DNS names for ovn-kubernetes cp metrics #7025
OCPBUGS-63369: Make the hypershift CLI binary FIPS-compliant #7093
OCPBUGS-62808: Fix driver-config ConfigMap content flapping due to random ordering #6944 #6947
CNTRLPLANE-1424: feat(konflux): tag MCE HO images with latest #6837
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ibmcloud-cluster-api-controllers

OCPBUGS-67286: [release-4.18] Fix incomplete vendor/ #140
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insights-operator

OCPBUGS-66396: Add filtering to add other possible pod status to QEMU gatherer #1195
OCPBUGS-66182: QEMU logs are not gathered if there are pending status virt-launcher pods #1189
OCPBUGS-66181: [bugfix] The archive’s records may include files whose names are out of bounds #1188
OCPBUGS-61972: add missing permissions for replicasets and events #1146
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ironic

OCPBUGS-65573: Include Handle HTTP 400 and 409 race condition in Redfish power opera… #727
OCPBUGS-62647: Bump sushy to include etag fix #701
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ironic-agent

OCPBUGS-68360: Include Test advertised ip reachability before assigning it #226
OCPBUGS-62456: netutils: Use ethtool ioctl to get permanent mac address #206
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kubevirt-csi-driver

OCPBUGS-63670: Add awels as an approver in 4.18 branch #73
OCPBUGS-61700: Implement volume expansion #71
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machine-config-operator

OCPBUGS-70336: Remove log exposing kubeconfig #5528
OCPBUGS-62169: Fix - NetworkManager restart or crash renders br-ex unusable #5356
OCPBUGS-65850: Remove –mount directives #5433
OCPBUGS-62294: Make static DNS with DHCP IP work #5311
OCPBUGS-63346: Invalid architecture value found in annotation during 4.19 update #5366
OCPBUGS-60111: Enable debug logging for nodeip-configuration #5220
OCPBUGS-62671: [release-4.18] Networking: reset ovn-remote config and allow ovnkube controller to set it #5325
OCPBUGS-62845: Recheck generatedByControllerVersion annotation prior to deleting a degraded MC #5341
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machine-image-customization-controller

OCPBUGS-68262: [4.18] Uplift logrus #151
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monitoring-plugin

OCPBUGS-65958: Fix metrics gaps 4.18 #656
OCPBUGS-64735: allow tenancy access to metrics tag #638
OU-1059: add perspective to action injector #632
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networking-console-plugin

OCPBUGS-63582: Fixed - Extra semicolon observed before Service IP in OCP Console #306
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oauth-apiserver

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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oc-mirror

OCPBUGS-66051: Remove empty status field from generated IDMS/ITMS files (manual 4.18 backport) #1324
OCPBUGS-65510: removes unintended exec permissions #1312
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olm-catalogd

OCPBUGS-62872: set the SElinux type #139
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olm-operator-controller

OCPBUGS-62872: set the SElinux type #509
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openshift-apiserver

OCPBUGS-65842: UPSTREAM <carry>: bump kubernetes-apiserver to pick up loopback certificate expiration update #581
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operator-framework-tools, operator-lifecycle-manager, operator-registry

OCPBUGS-65700: Fix TOCTOU race condition in ensureInstallPlan (#3682) #1156
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operator-marketplace

OCPBUGS-62218: Remove Expect func so that the test case can use the retry logic #669
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ovn-kubernetes, ovn-kubernetes-microshift

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
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powervs-block-csi-driver

OCPBUGS-51896: Mitigate CVE-2025-22868 by updating golang.org/x/oauth2 #102
OCPBUGS-70002: Update builder image’s golang version to 1.23 #103
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prometheus-config-reloader, prometheus-operator, prometheus-operator-admission-webhook

OCPBUGS-61965: reconcile workload configurations when a referenced secret/configmap key is updated #347
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tests

OCPBUGS-69900: Updated the upgrade duration limit to 100 minutes for ppc64le #30628
OCPBUGS-63668: Add imagestream update dryrun test #30436
OCPBUGS-63712: Migrate OCP-32383 to upstream #30443
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