4.18.36

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oc adm release extract --tools quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.18.36-x86_64

Team Approvals:

Accepted
- QE

Tests:

Blocking jobs
- upgrade Succeeded periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-stable-4.y-e2e-aws-ovn-upgrade
- upgrade-minor Succeeded periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-stable-4.y-e2e-aws-ovn-upgrade
Informing jobs
- aws-ovn-serial Succeeded periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-nightly-4.18-e2e-aws-ovn-serial
- aws-ovn-single-node-upgrade-4.18-micro Succeeded periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-ci-4.18-e2e-aws-upgrade-ovn-single-node
- aws-ovn-upgrade-4.18-micro Succeeded periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-ci-4.18-e2e-aws-ovn-upgrade
- azure-ovn-upgrade-4.18-micro Succeeded periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-ci-4.18-e2e-azure-ovn-upgrade
- fips-scan Succeeded periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-nightly-4.18-fips-payload-scan
- gcp-ovn-rt-upgrade-4.18-minor Succeeded periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-ci-4.18-upgrade-from-stable-4.17-e2e-gcp-ovn-rt-upgrade
- hypershift-ovn-conformance-4.18 Succeeded periodic-ci-openshift-hypershift-release-4.18-periodics-e2e-aws-ovn-conformance
- metal-ipi-ovn-bm Succeeded (1 retry) periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-nightly-4.18-e2e-metal-ipi-ovn-bm
  - Attempt 1 Failed
  - Attempt 2 Succeeded
- metal-ipi-ovn-ipv6 Succeeded periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-nightly-4.18-e2e-metal-ipi-ovn-ipv6
- microshift-ovn-conformance-parallel Succeeded periodic-ci-openshift-microshift-release-4.18-periodics-e2e-aws-ovn-ocp-conformance
- microshift-ovn-conformance-serial Succeeded periodic-ci-openshift-microshift-release-4.18-periodics-e2e-aws-ovn-ocp-conformance-serial

Upgrades from:

Untested upgrades: 4.17.14, 4.17.15, 4.17.16, 4.17.17, 4.17.19, 4.17.20, 4.17.21, 4.17.22, 4.17.23, 4.17.24, 4.17.25, 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, 4.17.41, 4.17.42, 4.17.43, 4.17.44, 4.17.46, 4.17.47, 4.17.48, 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, 4.18.26, 4.18.27, 4.18.28, 4.18.29, 4.18.30, 4.18.31, 4.18.32, 4.18.5, 4.18.6, 4.18.7, 4.18.8

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Changes from 4.18.9

Created: 2026-03-19 17:38:41 +0000 UTC

Image Digest: sha256:7486ca2ec3bce0ee41dd2c03d75e120b6f660929ea50240463937ae1c4b118f7

Components

Kubectl 1.31.1
Kubernetes upgraded from 1.31.7 to 1.31.14
Kubernetes Tests upgraded from 1.31.7 to 1.31.12
Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS upgraded from 418.94.202504080525-0 to 418.94.202603181125-0 (diff)

FeatureGate Changes

FeatureGate	Default Hypershift	Default SelfManagedHA	DevPreviewNoUpgrade Hypershift	DevPreviewNoUpgrade SelfManagedHA	TechPreviewNoUpgrade Hypershift	TechPreviewNoUpgrade SelfManagedHA
OnClusterBuild (0 tests)	Enabled (Changed)	Enabled (Changed)	Enabled	Enabled	Enabled	Enabled
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)
ExternalOIDCWithUIDAndExtraClaimMappings (0 tests)			Enabled (New)	Enabled (New)	Enabled (New)	Enabled (New)

Rebuilt images without code change

aws-cloud-controller-manager git c3951906 sha256:5b94c5577b5b32daf399f069ba98ad37b6872aedc53b395eb72e314db189620f
aws-ebs-csi-driver git b51cd6b8 sha256:f9a5f406ad4ce6ecadd3e2590848bc4b5de5ab1cb5d0bb753b98188a28c44956
aws-kms-encryption-provider git 088dcaf7 sha256:e00a86c095aa8fb842e4e16b1be65da5fa8c7cb68ac54359fd3145351f4125d9
aws-pod-identity-webhook git f54f9a19 sha256:a28db2438421fe0949a55d72bae4a3420a62802cb6b393cb295433652707aa11
azure-cloud-controller-manager git 9c24d768 sha256:84c811adfae43bd1265fdf0f7048f582dbd671b0a95d5611adef7965e8bd6aff
azure-cloud-node-manager git 9c24d768 sha256:00534ec2823bb58616c955b80cb8fed0fb9193cd2fa3b9b06089c9692c33175b
azure-disk-csi-driver git 6cced666 sha256:fc78ae6ff45a27c111fff14e9d15a2e9982f97577722fe519630a018ebd64a5e
azure-file-csi-driver git 4b34592e sha256:08bd6463f232a07901d5291f750e58489438e593771d3de3f661a6b9639ec281
azure-kms-encryption-provider git c937080f sha256:987f733bf42ad58716951c02183b4f2f4779bb74133c9da26330161e4cd546fb
azure-workload-identity-webhook git f60e4029 sha256:94b28a0da75f383085a88df3d5b3d97b976bd9cccf0defe613085e918c7126d8
baremetal-machine-controllers git 1ede6c3f sha256:211bc1cade81979d28be5fffa10026fac5c6006000a4da2b0e68b5ca714deed8
cluster-autoscaler-operator git 474ad65c sha256:ce8e3088493b4a72dd766b3b5b4ccb83b7d72d514bbf64063a913dfe961273db
cluster-bootstrap git d1e01954 sha256:e3f1f314ed7b70c58dde895c3accc5d8aa92b8885032dbb10c2c3e0645aa526d
cluster-control-plane-machine-set-operator git d17bf3a1 sha256:908eaaf624959bc7645f6d585d160431d1efb070e9a1f37fefed73a3be42b0d3
cluster-csi-snapshot-controller-operator git 6fe70008 sha256:7c527b4e8239a1f4f4e0a851113e7dd633b7dcb9d75b0e7b21c23d26304abcb3
cluster-dns-operator git 7cafd0c7 sha256:ea5c8a93f30e0a4932da5697d22c0da7eda9a7035c0555eb006b6755e62bb2fc
cluster-kube-cluster-api-operator git 33a1141e sha256:e5325f3bef54c22f95012792b1af808d8e1ad78539ac0bd6edd81fda56a6e2ae
cluster-kube-storage-version-migrator-operator git 59ba356f sha256:5c983016b9ceed0fca1f51bd49c2653243c7e5af91cbf2f478b091db6e028252
cluster-machine-approver git 01d5fbbe sha256:cdd28dfe7132e19af9f013f72cf120d970bc31b6b74693af262f8d2e82a096e1
cluster-openshift-apiserver-operator git 0a6f6eb9 sha256:1f23bac0a2a6cfd638e4af679dc787a8790d99c391f6e2ade8087dc477ff765e
cluster-openshift-controller-manager-operator git f1711cf3 sha256:313d1d8ca85e65236a59f058a3316c49436dde691b3a3930d5bc5e3b4b8c8a71
cluster-policy-controller git 5fd85252 sha256:1fbbcb390de2563a0177b92fba1b5a65777366e2dc80e2808b61d87c41b47a2d
csi-driver-nfs git 32e77590 sha256:a2c31e21ddb6b70466884f317b4ad0acb431220cb841ee2063e57cb6bde46f25
csi-external-attacher git 39b37c06 sha256:2af92f0e90f29d4329e3ad1e235e69bc2397e065bfbc6772d7e073701c7b1363
csi-external-provisioner git 376f0ea0 sha256:74f0afca9374cee2b77efe39503e65207034c9a4a20738a65ed65b62a7fb8863
csi-livenessprobe git 3a977844 sha256:78976f244a2a7101390df281688f339864f3e7eda6531df18225022c768ca0b3
driver-toolkit git 2e139edc sha256:34cc8ad01ba89008f6df06d07d210e6e001b3cfda445127a9388740c542507d7
egress-router-cni git 3193a756 sha256:21b4c9cf268bb7abef7af187cd775d3f74d0bd33626250095428d53b705ee946
gcp-cloud-controller-manager git 6ea23561 sha256:37df9c265224d623ea309d87a400161641366e09117162d1dc4062e6efc8b395
gcp-pd-csi-driver-operator git 7cb8b38c sha256:78861d4efdfa2f7b109402745c586e7e0be2529fa1d9a26b0ad3ddf3e8020953
gcp-workload-identity-federation-webhook git f0a670c7 sha256:6039c0124bfe0608d088f9380a0fc864f7e67d8815f8af0f00000c185b019fbb
ibm-cloud-controller-manager git a33026b1 sha256:c4ac1ab8a08d39ec69e318d1820bff09506cdb330901c5a0c1e680ccbb447f3f
ironic-static-ip-manager git cfbae04f sha256:9b6c87d38bfc523a2a99bc5e492fd23f5075b8f85f93d5163855e9fe278542c5
keepalived-ipfailover git 716eb0ef sha256:51a2902a23dc5bf60dc7f95dd8f494257fa9cf4fbc784fc36f6d16e5286cc64c
kube-metrics-server git 962ccca2 sha256:39c122c726d1bf520dd481350fee5ad940762d5d4c9f8c012db6bf56b0ca8757
kubevirt-cloud-controller-manager git 3f4542ec sha256:f09a1e83e2b26524881b832bb20cc6a924f360ae377979db74a8b8ad9de26744
libvirt-machine-controllers git a336f0b5 sha256:b4b55da165fc3abad03195b2f10dcff3c539c196bc7b7fa6d6f932512ec06e5e
machine-os-images git ab432836 sha256:086f4f012853d023bbc751b217a382c3664019c606a0e58b54fae2857b034c98
multus-route-override-cni git 391c1b03 sha256:e3a494212f1ba17f0f0980eef583218330eccb56eadf6b8cb0548c76d99b5014
nutanix-cloud-controller-manager git d9fe8f38 sha256:551e92b1063618b3b619aa1fa151c9a98312262eb2903cf86712128ba3d29342
ovirt-csi-driver git 1db726a9 sha256:78aa5be28be7d85f30d68230d193084a2ec6db6e8b67d91b99b9964b7832c3b5
powervs-block-csi-driver-operator git 01fc505a sha256:4dcc3f2648915ed6887ff9db0c8d45b5487e3acdd7eb832ff6e7d579846ed90b
powervs-cloud-controller-manager git 17ae6fba sha256:20fe74ec53cca9cee4ba9d0c065a05b1daacdb2d9a5e68eb0dc871841d88ac27
rhel-coreos sha256:1c1661c18970ac7e919aeacd1ccbc9876a372ba7b26231bed6a5f13a19f9616f
rhel-coreos-extensions sha256:278800effa48796fe57c6d705d300c69483e81252e6a7fbfaa4959614be73d7c
service-ca-operator git 30efb529 sha256:812819a9d712b9e345ef5f1404b242c281e2518ad724baebc393ec0fd3b3d263
thanos git f1599f65 sha256:bf72297fee61ec9950f6868881ad3e84be8692ca08f084b3d155d93a766c0823
vsphere-csi-driver-operator git 2b241410 sha256:f52b7d31de7697dd95b0addb28b5a270e2e2a8e37543a16696aaadcaf7a14756

agent-installer-api-server

OCPBUGS-74898: Retry incomplete cluster registration in ABI #8817
OCPBUGS-74911: Remove root=/dev/disk/by-label/dm-mpath-root from kargs #8820
And 4 elided commits (e.g. from squash or rebase merges)
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agent-installer-csr-approver, agent-installer-orchestrator

OCPBUGS-58650: Bump glog pkg to 1.2.4 (#1181) #1181
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agent-installer-node-agent

MGMT-21849: Skip arping for remote IPs not in outgoing NIC’s subnet #1332
And 3 elided commits (e.g. from squash or rebase merges)
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agent-installer-utils

OCPBUGS-68243: bump github.com/sirupsen/logrus to v1.9.3 #237
append .0 to go.mod version #109
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apiserver-network-proxy

append .0 to go.mod version. #81
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aws-cluster-api-controllers

OCPBUGS-77903: [release-4.18] update go mod dependency for konflux #589
OCPBUGS-61841: UPSTREAM <carry>: revert: Only tag NetworkInterfaces in RunInstances if IAM Allows It #570
OCPBUGS-58670, OCPBUGS-58675: bump github.com/golang/glog to v1.2.5 #556
OCPBUGS-56434: Update manifests to use v1 admissionregistration group #554
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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-76582: Fix Cinder, Manila driver metrics #501
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
OCPBUGS-55053: Correct ASH driver inject env config #381
OCPBUGS-54453: Enable required driver services #375
OCPBUGS-60596: Bump library-go to fix assignment to nil map issue #421
OCPBUGS-60203: Remove stale conditions #413
And 1 elided commits (e.g. from squash or rebase merges)
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aws-machine-controllers

OCPBUGS-73789: Fix reconciler consistency checks in Update and Exists #166
OCPBUGS-63138: client: re-use a single file for building the session instead of randomly named files #146
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azure-cluster-api-controllers

OCPBUGS-77905: [release-4.18] update go mod dependency for konflux #362
OCPBUGS-58861: Update manifests to remove reliance on admission registration v1beta1 #348
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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
OCPBUGS-56167: [release-4.18] Update virtualmachines service to armcompute/v5 SDK #145
OCPBUGS-56654: Fix failure when attempting to modify immutable availabilitySet #153
OCPBUGS-55373: Update eviction policy for Spot VMs from Deallocate to Delete #139
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baremetal-cluster-api-controllers

OCPBUGS-58861: Update manifests to remove reliance on admission registration v1beta1 #51
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baremetal-installer, installer, installer-altinfra, installer-artifacts

OCPBUGS-45579: PowerVS: Listen to machineNetwork #9277
OCPBUGS-73784: pkg/asset/manifests/azure: save cidr blocks #10217
OCPBUGS-76598: Increase agent-installer pre-network-manager timeout #10299
OCPBUGS-67203: Update the RHCOS 4.18 bootimage metadata #10294
OCPBUGS-74676: [release-4.18] GCP: skip AI zones #10275
OCPBUGS-69880: Azure UPI ARM template: use storageAccountId #10179
OCPBUGS-68244: [4.18] uplift logrus #10166
OCPBUGS-57590: Mount the user-ca-bundle into ICC #9794
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
OCPBUGS-59490: Make swift containers removal not fatal for UPI. #9839
OCPBUGS-61529: Use less permissive access for /var/lib/etcd for SNO #9937
OCPBUGS-61178: Refine check for supported SNO platforms #9923
OCPBUGS-60592: baremetal: always set external v6 URL on dualstack #9895
OCPBUGS-54598: Update the RHCOS 4.18 bootimage metadata #9900
OCPBUGS-56177, OCPBUGS-59155, OCPBUGS-59158: Migrate AWS SDK to V2 to support MX-Central Region #9709
OCPBUGS-58321: allow to deploy single nodes with UPI #9824
OCPBUGS-54744: Filter out excess CA certs when adding node #9647
OCPBUGS-58264: vSphere - remove unit tests using nip.io #9813
OCPBUGS-56797: [Nutanix] nil error displayed when setting a not exist value in preloadedOSImageName field #9747
OCPBUGS-57139: ensure ctrplane nodes can access bootstrap MCS #9772
OCPBUGS-57220: sort zone slices extracted from map of byo subnets #9774
OCPBUGS-56864: Update Control Plane replica validation for Single Node OpenShift #9758
OCPBUGS-50690: vsphere - check if host is powered down or on standby before uploading template #9468
OCPBUGS-53142: PowerVS: COS eu-es hack #9626
OCPBUGS-50840: Fix panic when there are no available IPs #9479
OCPBUGS-55794: IBI nmstate unit test fix #9692
OCPBUGS-54947: Fix Load balancer IP setup #9659
OCPBUGS-45564: Align vSphere UPI haproxy config with IPI #9276
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baremetal-operator

OCPBUGS-76988: Unblock BMH direct deletion when detached annotation is present #461
OCPBUGS-56766: Make firmware update handle only a subset of Spec.Updates #421
OCPBUGS-56431: Redfish: correctly handle missing system ID #417
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baremetal-runtimecfg

OCPBUGS-60111: Re-add ENABLE_NODEIP_DEBUG env var #364
OCPBUGS-59280: Bump logrus version #354
OCPBUGS-57782: iptables: Switch PREROUTING REDIRECT rule to DNAT instead #351
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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
OCPBUGS-58233: Return error in case of error #2054
OCPBUGS-57507: avoid transfering permissions when copying artifacts from node-joiner pod #2039
OCPBUGS-56240: Adding sos.conf file for default sos config into the tools image #2021
OCPBUGS-55449: Get installer image from configMap for node-image command #2013
OCPBUGS-55647: Use fedora image in unit tests instead of centos #2014
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cloud-credential-operator

OCPBUGS-74548: Resolve nil pointer exception in hasResourceTags #968
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
OCPBUGS-55127: snyk to ignore SNYK-GOLANG-GOLANGORGXNETHTML-9572088 #915
OCPBUGS-60971: ccoctl: aws to use proper issuer url on subsequent runs #907
OCPBUGS-60618: ccoctl azure dnszone-resource-group-name now optional #899
OCPBUGS-58680: github.com/golang/glog v1.2.5 #891
OCPBUGS-58247: ccoctl: only add owned tag to azure resources on create #882
OCPBUGS-56979: Azure: resolve nil pointer exception when role assignment exists #869
OCPBUGS-54827: Render: configure proxy on bootstrap static pod #862
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cloud-network-config-controller

OCPBUGS-73750: [release-4.18] Fix pointers without ptr.Deref #199
OCPBUGS-65651: [release-4.18] Fix capacity calculation #193
OCPBUGS-64779: [release-4.18] Change the capacity struct from int to ptrOfInt #189
OCPBUGS-56156: Increase API call timeout to 30 second #170
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cluster-authentication-operator

OCPBUGS-49749: Exclude etcd readiness checks from /readyz to ignore temporary etcd hiccups #754
Full changelog

cluster-autoscaler

OCPBUGS-75925: Fixes histograms becoming empty after loaded from checkpoints #402
OCPBUGS-60908: revert openshift replica fix #375
OCPBUGS-60235: fix checkpoint gc of unknown recommenders #368
OCPBUGS-59260: Fix cool down status condition to trigger scale down #361
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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
OCPBUGS-60586: Remove webhookport (9447) as HostPort #501
OCPBUGS-58315: Bump github.com/go-errors/errors to v1.5.1 #492
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cluster-capi-controllers

OCPBUGS-56434: Update manifests to leverage v1 admissionregistration group #241
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cluster-capi-operator

OCPBUGS-56919: fix: bump openshift/library-go to fix ValidatingAdmissionPolicyV1 apply in capiinstaller #308
OCPBUGS-56434: Should not use v1beta1 of the AdmissionRegistration API group #298
Full changelog

cluster-cloud-controller-manager-operator

OCPBUGS-63166: ccm: disable unused secure-serving port and webhook #421
OCPBUGS-60015: Add Service using common resource templating #405
OCPBUGS-60015: Update service selector to match deployment label #403
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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
OCPBUGS-52347: Add CEL validation for RegistrySources in Image API #2218
OCPBUGS-60904: MachineOSConfig name should match MachineConfigPool #2458
Update crd-schema.json to release 1.33 branch #2459
: add OnClusterBuilds to default config #2365
Merge #2316
OCPBUGS-56183: Add IPsec API for NAT-T UDP encapsulation support #2331
OCPBUGS-55792: [release-4.18] config: add uid and extra claim mappings for external OIDC configuration #2311
OCPBUGS-53221: Allow spaces in AWS resource tags #2239
OCPBUGS-54784: [release-4.18] Bump openshift/controller-tools to latest commit #2267
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cluster-config-operator

OCPBUGS-68249: Update logrus to 1.9.3 to address CVE-2025-65637 #464
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cluster-etcd-operator

OCPBUGS-76284: Add priority field to prevent early shutdown #1545
OCPBUGS-63451: Ensure revision.json persists on ungraceful shutdown #1503
OCPBUGS-58412: bump library-go to bring in revision controller revision-ready annotation fix #1518
OCPBUGS-61235: Vendor latest mixin, including additional and modified alerts for etcdDatabaseQuotaLowSpace #1478
OCPBUGS-59992: fix ordering on bootstrap IP selection #1458
OCPBUGS-59803: add missing ports to svc and pod spec #1455
OCPBUGS-56834: etcd pod containers do not start when tls min version is 1.3 #1428
OCPBUGS-56110: adjust alerts according to platform #1424
OCPBUGS-53513: fix CVE-2025-30204 #1413
OCPBUGS-55066: increase etcdGRPCRequestsSlow duration #1408
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cluster-image-registry-operator

OCPBUGS-53873: bump github.com/golang-jwt/jwt #1217
OCPBUGS-51606: bump golang.org/x/oauth2 #1208
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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-76284: Add priority field to prevent early shutdown #2031
OCPBUGS-58412: bump library-go to bring in revision controller revision-ready annotation fix #1976
OCPBUGS-63119: SCC: add hostmount-anyuid-v2 #1937
OCPBUGS-61039: Set goaway chance to 0.001 #1912
OCPBUGS-60176: Add missing service ports to apiserver service #1888
OCPBUGS-56030: bump library-go to bring in updated audit policies #1843
OCPBUGS-49898: bindata/alerts/slo: improve burnrate calculation #1808
OCPBUGS-53066: Bump library-go #1828
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cluster-kube-controller-manager-operator

OCPBUGS-76284: Add priority field to prevent early shutdown #906
OCPBUGS-58412: bump library-go to bring in revision controller revision-ready annotation fix #897
OCPBUGS-60131: Missing endpoint slices for open ports the operator uses #852
Full changelog

cluster-kube-scheduler-operator

CNTRLPLANE-2843: chore: update OWNERS #622
OCPBUGS-76284: Add priority field to prevent early shutdown #612
OCPBUGS-58412: bump library-go to bring in revision controller revision-ready annotation fix #590
Full changelog

cluster-monitoring-operator

OCPBUGS-77274: AlertingRule: fix duplicate PrometheusRules after MD5->SHA-224 naming change #2833
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
OCPBUGS-61706: chore(jsonnet): use prometheus_remote_storage_queue_highest_timestamp_seconds in PrometheusRemoteWriteBehind #2669
OCPBUGS-59962: operator: increase wait time till degraded to max 4 times 5m #2633
OCPBUGS-56251: set upgradable false when alertmanager v1 is specified #2591
OCPBUGS-55005: chore: introduce context-rich anb case sensitive unmarshaller for the monitoring and set CMO to Upgradeable=false if errors are found #2592
Full changelog

cluster-network-operator

OCPBUGS-74154: whereabouts-config is a reserved name for user interaction. #2884
OCPBUGS-73767: Tweak iptables-alerter to try to avoid crictl bug #2877
OCPBUGS-65704, OCPBUGS-65705: Annotate whereabouts-controller #2842
OCPBUGS-62671: Add drop flows for GARP #2810
OCPBUGS-60984: Update CNO reviewers/approvers #2766
OCPBUGS-60795: Add release version annotation to whereabouts-controller/whereabouts-token-watcher #2782
OCPBUGS-47651: Re-disable metrics server #2622
OCPBUGS-58047: Add cert-rotation script into cno #2702
OCPBUGS-56183: Implement IPsec NAT-Traversal encapsulation option #2711
OCPBUGS-54717: Add IPv6 NGINX configuration #2683
Full changelog

cluster-node-tuning-operator

OCPBUGS-75954: PPC: filter out namespaces dir #1465
OCPBUGS-69947: [release-4.18] E2E: skip stalld test checking sched_fifo #1451
OCPBUGS-63450: Do not cause kubelet failed dependency by ocp-tuned-one-shot.service #1417
And 6 elided commits (e.g. from squash or rebase merges)
Full changelog

cluster-olm-operator

OCPBUGS-57767: fix olm.maxOpenShiftVersion float parsing #125
OCPBUGS-48478: [release-4.18] Add openshift node selector annotation #116
Full changelog

cluster-samples-operator

OCPBUGS-63511: references to github.com/sclorg/django-ex.git now also refer to the branch #657
OCPBUGS-55783: Samples Operator should sort failing image imports #638
OCPBUGS-55782: only update LastTransitionTime if operator status change #637
OCPBUGS-55781: Adding filter to clusterOperatorInformerEventHandler #636
OCPBUGS-54258: Adding mutex to func createSamples on handler.go #615
Full changelog

cluster-storage-operator

OCPBUGS-62666: Move metrics to vsphere driver #632
Full changelog

cluster-update-keys

NO-JIRA: Updating openshift-ci-release-key for 2 years #72
Full changelog

cluster-version-operator

OCPBUGS-70182: Unify capitalization when comparing architectures for available updates #1327
NO-ISSUE: hongkai becomes an approver release-4.18 #1286
OCPBUGS-62869: disable metrics auth for hypershift clusters #1242
OCPBUGS-58450: Failing=Unknown upon long CO updating #1211
OCPBUGS-60222: CVO protects /metrics with authorization #1223
OCPBUGS-55359: install/0000_00_cluster-version-operator_01_admingate_configmap: Add ack-4.18-kube-1.32-api-removals-in-4.19 #1181
Full changelog

configmap-reloader

append .0 to go.mod version #69
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console

CONSOLE-5011: migrate to yarn berry #16073
NO-JIRA: Bump builder image to v29 #15995
OCPBUGS-65808: Fix PatternFly dark theme colors for charts and form inputs #15951
OCPBUGS-74458: Bump lodash to latest #15965
OCPBUGS-73753: Fix Helm chart installation with CA/TLS certificates #15914
OCPBUGS-73662: Namespace is not persisting when switching to developer view from the topology page of admin page #15910
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
OCPBUGS-62326: /auth/error?error=missing_state&error_type=auth is showing blank page #15544
OCPBUGS-61569: Update CHANGELOG for 4.18 plugin SDK package publish #15516
OCPBUGS-61569: Fix bug with Console provided PatternFly shared modules #15479
OCPBUGS-61697: Remove ancient X-XSS-Protection header #15493
OCPBUGS-60236: Make sure CSP violations are only reported to telemetry once per day per browser #15453
NO-JIRA: Update CHANGELOG for latest 4.18 plugin SDK package publish #15456
OCPBUGS-50983: Store Topology sidebar alert in the localStorage #15431
OCPBUGS-54660: Added patternfly/react-topology to shared module list of dynamic plugin sdk #15371
OCPBUGS-50570: Fix regression where plugins were not tracking CSP violation status a… #14754
OCPBUGS-60140: Recognize Detached BMH status #15362
OCPBUGS-54660: Add BaseNode in topology folder into Dynamic Plugin SDK #15369
: OCPBUGS-60278: Fix i18n string for event stream #15403
OCPBUGS-54660: Expose OdcBaseNode through the dynamic plugin SDK #15370
OCPBUGS-54660: Expose topology components and utils via plugin SDK internal package #14777
OCPBUGS-58364: change ‘/metrics/usage’ endpoint to ‘/api/metrics/usage’ #15272
OCPBUGS-59778: add data-test attrs to console plugins table #15327
OCPBUGS-59786: Update the golang.org/x/crypto/ssh to 0.31.0 in the openshift-console image #15330
OCPBUGS-59501: Add the Origin header to the HeaderBlacklist in the co… #15295
OCPBUGS-59443: Not able to launch terminal window from OCP web console due to console plugin conflicts #15290
OCPBUGS-59446: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘node-role.kubernetes.io/master’) error while accessing node logs from console #15292
OCPBUGS-58457: fix bug where / in console.tab/horizontalNav href brea… #15250
OCPBUGS-58203: OpenShift console PVC clone cannot use B as the unit #15215
OCPBUGS-58317: Implement sessions in openshift authenticator #15237
OCPBUGS-58088: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘filter’) error while accessing nodes from console. #15202
OCPBUGS-58089: Getting “Oh no something went wrong” error message in web console. #15203
OCPBUGS-57931: Add the ability to launch multiple modals with useModal hook #15196
OCPBUGS-57580: Update vSphere configuration form to support CM YAML f… #15191
OCPBUGS-57743: Fix TypeError Cannot read properties of null (reading ‘metadata’) #15188
OCPBUGS-57209: Add flags in console static plugin for all the components of this epic #15160
OCPBUGS-36173: Secret key with binary file changes when edited via Console. #15178
OCPBUGS-57181: Fix ‘/metrics’ endpoint token review to handle interna… #15153
OCPBUGS-57353: fix VirtualizedTable runtime error if sortColumn is no… #15173
OCPBUGS-57093: Add all files to vendor regardless of gitignore #15131
OCPBUGS-56774: [knative] Self-provisioner user can not access or create event sources via ODC #15095
OCPBUGS-56862: Sample segment sessions #15103
OCPBUGS-56757: HorizontalPodAutoscalers via console require CPU resource limit even though HPAs use requests for scaling #15093
OCPBUGS-54337: Debug pod logs are not accessible when debugging a node via OpenShift Console #14942
OCPBUGS-56255: remove 60 day alert from cluster update modal #15055
OCPBUGS-55991: Remove the devconsole backend common internet proxy and replace it with dedicated ones #15043
OCPBUGS-53172: Include init containers in readiness count if ready and started is true #14884
OCPBUGS-54899: Fetching taskRuns in PLR details page using PLR UID also #14961
OCPBUGS-54888: Can’t edit deployment (from the private git repository) in RHOCP 4.15 via console #14959
OCPBUGS-45369: Authenticate user token in openshift Authenticate func #14664
OCPBUGS-55195: fix bug where operator appears twice #14984
And 1 elided commits (e.g. from squash or rebase merges)
Full changelog

console-operator

OCPBUGS-77861: update go mod dependency for konflux #1113
NETOBSERV-2023, OCPBUGS-60304: Implement a quickstart for netobserv operator #997
OCPBUGS-60081: Fetch synced CM for the CertificateAuthority issuer + Wire synced OIDC Auth CM to Console #1031
OCPBUGS-59786: Update the golang.org/x/crypto/ssh to 0.31.0 in the openshift-console image #1027
OCPBUGS-45869: don’t set current clients when no OIDC providers are configured #948
And 2 elided commits (e.g. from squash or rebase merges)
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container-networking-plugins, containernetworking-plugins-microshift

OCPBUGS-60871: [release-4.18] host-device: Return interface name in result #208
OCPBUGS-56928: bridge: Add option to enable port isolation #203
append .0 to go.mod version #196
: OCPBUGS-56928: Add a new firewall ingress-policy “isolated” #191
OCPBUGS-55354: Fix dhcp #186
OCPBUGS-55346: Check error returned by ipv6 SettleAddresses #185
Full changelog

coredns

OCPBUGS-60462: UPSTREAM: 7083 and 6836: Fix failing TestZoneExternalCNAMELookupWithProxy #152
append .0 to go.mod version #134
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csi-driver-manila, openstack-cinder-csi-driver, openstack-cloud-controller-manager

OCPBUGS-57800: Rebase release-4.18 onto release-1.31 #322
OCPBUGS-58835: CARRY: don’t ignore json files #339
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csi-external-resizer

OCPBUGS-62467: Requeue PVC over PV creation #176
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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
Full changelog

csi-node-driver-registrar

OCPBUGS-63324: update log level verbosity to not clutter logs #89
Full changelog

docker-builder

OCPBUGS-66990: bump buildah to 1.37.7 to fix CVE-2025-52881 #498
OCPBUGS-65655: BuildConfig inline Dockerfile fails with heredoc syntax #486
OCPBUGS-57758: S2I build cpu limits observed by assemble are limited to 1 cpu #473
Full changelog

docker-registry

OCPBUGS-68253: update logrus to v1.9.1 #464
IR-526: remove AWS region check #437
OCPBUGS-53657: bump jwt and oauth dependencies #430
Full changelog

etcd

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
Full changelog

gcp-cluster-api-controllers

OCPBUGS-78278: [release-4.18] update go mod dependency for konflux #265
OCPBUGS-58861: Update manifests to remove reliance on admission registration v1beta1 #247
Full changelog

gcp-machine-controllers

OCPBUGS-59387: Add max-concurrent-reconciles flag to machine actuator #126
Full changelog

gcp-pd-csi-driver

OCPBUGS-68258: UPSTREAM: 2056: bump github.com/sirupsen/logrus to v1.9.3 #89
OCPBUGS-44772: Fix Hyperdisk Resize That Requires Iops/Throughput Adjustment #83
Full changelog

haproxy-router

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

OCPBUGS-54724: Fix implementation of ContainsCIDR to allow non-equal addresses #2267
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
OCPBUGS-61557: Rebase v1.31.13 #2465
Revert “UPSTREAM: revert<carry>: Mark admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1beta1 as deprecated.”” #2448
OCPBUGS-60511: Bump to v1.31.12 #2440
OCPBUGS-60524: podresources: list: use active pods #2413
UPSTREAM: revert<carry>: Mark admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1beta1 as deprecated.” #2422
OCPBUGS-57488: UPSTREAM: <carry>: Mark admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1beta1 as deprecated. #2333
OCPBUGS-57499: UPSTREAM:131579: fix(kubelet): acquire imageRecordsLock when removing image #2399
OCPBUGS-44757: Adjust NodeMonitorGracePeriod to 50s #2385
OCPBUGS-59535: Rebase v1.31.11 to 4.18 #2377
OCPBUGS-57887: Update to Kubernetes v1.31.10 #2348
OCPBUGS-57070: UPSTREAM: <carry>: Bump cadvisor version to fix container_fs metrics #2332
OCPBUGS-57219: kubelet: fix a stall on startup from waiting too long for a stat call #2324
OCPBUGS-56835: UPSTREAM: 130047: adjusting loopback certificate validity in kube-apiserver #2316
OCPBUGS-56384: Propagate error when creating CustomResourceStorage instead of panicking #2303
OCPBUGS-56438: Update to Kubernetes v1.31.9 #2307
OCPBUGS-56192: UPSTREAM: 131236: RWX tests should create RWX volumes #2300
UPSTREAM: 127757 : OCPBUGS-55639: scheduler: Improve CSILimits plugi… #2283
OCPBUGS-55267: Update to Kubernetes v1.31.8 #2278
: OCPBUGS-54807: skip tests on platform type External #2268
Full changelog

hypershift

OCPBUGS-76532: feat(updates): enable CVO metrics access with RHOBS monitoring flag #7699
OCPBUGS-77368: Fix ignition-server pod restarts #7878
CNTRLPLANE-1708: Backport Customer Global Pull Secret to OpenShift 4.18.z #7354
OCPBUGS-72932: Fix Konflux EC voilation, update deprecated base … #7456
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
OCPBUGS-62816: set default goaway-chance to 0.001 #6950
OCPBUGS-61904: resolve MIRRORED_RELEASE_IMAGE flapping #6858
OCPBUGS-61700: Sync RBAC for expansion support in kubevirt CSI driver #6355
OCPBUGS-61568: [release-4.18] fix(proxy): ensure URLs have scheme before proxy resolution #6793
OCPBUGS-61203: ci: konflux multi-arch images #6867
OCPBUGS-61203: Use the common konflux pipeline and update CLI dockerfile #6832
NO-JIRA: chore(deps): update konflux references #6667
OCPBUGS-57142: [release-4.18] HCP payload doesn’t respect multiple mirrors #6672
OCPBUGS-60485: feat(validations): add wildcard support to DNS SAN conflict detection #6649
OCPBUGS-60148: Always compress and encode payload in token secret for inplace upgrades #6721
OCPBUGS-60923: MCE 2.8 konflux for hcp-cli #6700
CNTRLPLANE-1333: New API to support specifying cluster-autoscaler flags #6641
OCPBUGS-60458: Update PSA from v1beta1 to v1 #6644
CNTRLPLANE-1269: chore(deps): update konflux references #6658
CNTRLPLANE-1205: Add missing mce-2.8 pipeline #6656
OCPBUGS-59503: [release-4.18] Support proxy authentication when user/pass is included in URL #6460
CNTRLPLANE-1229: Move CPO pipeline to hermetic builds #6597
OCPBUGS-57818: Reuse hosted cluster release and metadata providers #6301
OCPBUGS-58126: Don’t use /version for haproxy health checks #6323
OCPBUGS-57273: Add proxy variables for the MCD Pod #6247
OCPBUGS-56166, OCPBUGS-56955: Fix CatalogSource images check when unauthorized #6237
OCPBUGS-56166, OCPBUGS-56955: Add support for registry root entry only in the IDMS/ICSP #6163
OCPBUGS-56627: Do not validate OCP API Server SANS if PKI reconciliation is disabled #6186
CNTRLPLANE-917: Konflux build pipeline service account migration #6084
OCPBUGS-56524: switch admissionregistration API to v1 #6172
OCPBUGS-55177: Don’t check if olm images exist if guest cluster #6065
OCPBUGS-55230: Add annotation to configure KAS goaway-chance #6066
OCPBUGS-54865: KAS-Bump audit-webhook-initial-backoff and TerminationGracePeriodSeconds when audit webhook is enabled #6020
OCPBUGS-54737: Bump socks5 proxy, konnectivity proxy, http proxy, token minter memory requests #6052
OCPBUGS-55148: Update OpenShift apiserver liveness and readiness probe endpoints to livez and readyz #6059
OCPBUGS-54946, RHOCPPRIO-433: Add validation to avoid conflicts between KubeAPIServer and NamedCertificates SANs #6091
OCPBUGS-55146: Use 135 for terminationGracePeriodSeconds for v2 KAS #6057
OCPBUGS-54698: Add missing servicemonitors and prometheusrules permissions for non-OVN #6000
OCPBUGS-53404: Set shutdown watch termination grace period on kube-apiserver #5874
OCPBUGS-51810: Fix golang crypto dependency go.mod replacement #5992
OCPBUGS-54814: [release-4.18] add feature set aware feature gates to HO and CPO #6014
Full changelog

ibm-vpc-block-csi-driver

OCPBUGS-77207: [release-4.18] standardize build paths #122
OCPBUGS-58741: bump github.com/golang/glog to version v1.2.4 #104
append .0 to go.mod version #96
OCPBUGS-55283: tech debt: rework vendor patches #89
OCPBUGS-53913: bump github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v4 to v4.5.2 #82
Full changelog

ibm-vpc-block-csi-driver-operator

OCPBUGS-55297: [IBM VPC] set offlineExpansion to false in e2e test manifest #144
Full changelog

ibmcloud-cluster-api-controllers

OCPBUGS-67286: [release-4.18] Fix incomplete vendor/ #140
OCPBUGS-51825: CVE-2025-22869 Update golang.org/x/crypto to patched OpenShift fork #120
OCPBUGS-58861: Update manifests to remove reliance on admission registration v1beta1 #119
Full changelog

ibmcloud-machine-controllers

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
Full changelog

insights-operator

OCPBUGS-76537: [release-4.18] [bugfix] The ConfigMap value for StoragePath is ignored on basic routine #1239
OCPBUGS-68263: Update github.com/sirupsen/logrus to v1.9.3 #1205
OCPBUGS-68263: [release-4.18] golanci-lint version update & corresponding fixes (#1045) #1206
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
And 6 elided commits (e.g. from squash or rebase merges)
Full changelog

insights-runtime-exporter, insights-runtime-extractor

OCPBUGS-77789: remove dnf cache from the container images #69
Full changelog

ironic

OCPBUGS-74115: Bump keystonemiddleware version to 10.7.1-0.20260216144200.4c001ba for CVE-2026-22797 fix #795
OCPBUGS-69790: Bump eventlet version to 0.33.1-7 #760
OCPBUGS-65573: Include Handle HTTP 400 and 409 race condition in Redfish power opera… #727
OCPBUGS-62647: Bump sushy to include etag fix #701
OCPBUGS-55938: Extract files one-by-one in logwatch #657
Full changelog

ironic-agent

OCPBUGS-69780: Bump eventlet version to 0.33.1-7 #230
OCPBUGS-68360: Include Test advertised ip reachability before assigning it #226
OCPBUGS-62456: netutils: Use ethtool ioctl to get permanent mac address #206
OCPBUGS-56097: collect the entire journal from the host #189
OCPBUGS-55364: Delay determining the hostname to put into ignition #183
Full changelog

ironic-machine-os-downloader

append .0 to go.mod version #103
Full changelog

kube-rbac-proxy

OCPBUGS-60930: fix(go.mod): bump golang.org/x/crypto/ssh to 0.31.0 #125
Full changelog

kube-state-metrics

OCPBUGS-74873: Deduplicate CRS stores #131
Full changelog

kube-storage-version-migrator

OCPBUGS-78273: fix /vendor for hermetic 4.18 #239
NO-JIRA: Add DOWNSTREAM_OWNERS (release 4-18). #225
append .0 to go.mod version #216
Full changelog

kubevirt-csi-driver

OCPBUGS-63670: Add awels as an approver in 4.18 branch #73
OCPBUGS-61700: Implement volume expansion #71
OCPBUGS-54630: Ensure volume stays attached through reboots #55
Full changelog

machine-api-operator

OCPBUGS-78796: [release-4.18] Use resource group when generating default Azure image #1480
OCPBUGS-59387: Enabled 10 concurrent reconciles on GCP #1392
OCPBUGS-57057: Updates GCP CredentialsRequest #1376
Full changelog

machine-config-operator

OCPBUGS-62692: configure-ovs: work around a Cisco switch issue #5329
OCPBUGS-78056: Prevent unnecessary systemd unit disable #5758
OCPBUGS-74148: enable nodeip-configuration for platform external #5578
OCPBUGS-77777: reduce MCO image size #5738
OCPBUGS-77576: mcd_config_drift not working properly #5726
OCPBUGS-77421: Remove MCD liveness probe #5710
OCPBUGS-74644: After OCL is enabled few phases in MCN are not updating as expected #5605
OCPBUGS-77092: Machine-config controller should not log about non-existent pull-secret changes #5680
OCPBUGS-77041: machine-config-daemon: openshift: Exposure of Sensitive Data in Log Files in the Machine Configuration Daemon. [openshift-4] #5671
OCPBUGS-76560: [release-4.18]: cherry pick to few fixes that needed for missing services and configuration #5653
OCPBUGS-71227: MCP is not correctly degraded when a pivotError happens #5534
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
OCPBUGS-62499: Add /etc/docker/certs.d to template #5320
OCPBUGS-62637: Machine-config controller should actively manage cordon while draining #5322
OCPBUGS-62350: Add mcd_local_unsupported_packages recording rule #5315
OCPBUGS-62321: Add control-plane label for master nodes on legacy clusters #5314
OCPBUGS-61840: Override NMState service definition #5288
OCPBUGS-57357: Race in configure-ovs.sh affects bonding interface configuration. #5118
OCPBUGS-59929, OPNET-681: Support migration to NMState #5207
OCPBUGS-60034: Add workaround fix for static pod race #5212
OCPBUGS-56751: Support NODEIP_HINT in IPI deployments too #5081
OCPBUGS-55246: kubelet: readonly mounts for criometricsproxy #4998
OCPBUGS-58067: Ensure the build controller restarts on upgrade #5140
OCPBUGS-57328: Do not set cpu system reserve below the default value #5152
OCPBUGS-56624: Give keepalived container chroot cap #5073
OCPBUGS-58044: Boot image controller should correctly handle marketplace boot images #5138
OCPBUGS-57935: add MachineConfiguration to CO related objects #5134
OCPBUGS-54463: Update desired config in MCN on OCL update #5026
OCPBUGS-57900: MCC complains about v1 MachineOSConfig in default featureset #5131
OCPBUGS-56900: Fix dynamic-system-reserved-calc.sh when only true parameter is used #5095
OCPBUGS-56517: pkg/operator/status: Drop PoolUpdating as an Upgradeable=False condition #5065
OCPBUGS-56585: scope MCD node listers to current node #5068
OCPBUGS-56867: Only update boot disks during GCP boot image updates #5089
OCPBUGS-56823: Boot Image Controller should not degrade when golden configmap is slow to update #5085
OCPBUGS-56703: daemon: fix ostree-finalize-staged race workaround for package mode RHEL workers #5078
Merge #5025
OCPBUGS-56401: Add hot loop detection in the boot image controller #5062
OCPBUGS-55638: OCPBUGS-55637: Add admin_acks handling in the MCO #5027
OCPBUGS-56217: Compare the osImageURLs for OS validation check #5052
OCPBUGS-56170: error from generateAndValidateRenderedMachineConfig function can be misleading #5049
OCPBUGS-55383: Leverage shared node.env for both AWS providerID and hostname units #5008
OCPBUGS-53427: pkg/operator/status: Drop kubelet skew guard, add RHEL guard #4956
[release 4.18] OCPBUGS-55473: In OCL. Usbguard service fails when we install the usbguard extension #5018
OCPBUGS-54765: [release-4.18] kubelet-service: narrow down restorecon path #4978
OCPBUGS-55428: MSBIC should not update windows machinesets #5012
OCPBUGS-55290: MCO should fall back to us-east-1 for AWS bootimages if no region specific-AMI exists #5000
OCPBUGS-55293: Fix PollUntilContextTimeout in syncRenderConfig #5001
Update cluster operator’s status condition message #4993
OCPBUGS-53278: In OCL. Cannot install extensions #4945
OCPBUGS-54817: Make mtu-migration run after wait-for-primary-ip #4979
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machine-image-customization-controller

OCPBUGS-77888: Clean up dnf cache to reduce container image size #168
OCPBUGS-68262: [4.18] Uplift logrus #151
append .0 to go.mod version #134
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metallb-frr

OCPBUGS-74485: Dockerfile: unpin FRR rpm #121
OCPBUGS-55343: OpenShift Only: TEMPORARY: pin FRR version to known working rpm #88
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monitoring-plugin

NO-JIRA: simplify dockerfile by removing cachito dependencies [release-4.18] #818
OCPBUGS-70291: fix: update qs vulnerable dependency #739
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
NO-JIRA: update i18n strings #508
OCPBUGS-60199: feat: add alerting rules tab to dev console #493
OCPBUGS-54314: Fix “Export as CSV” #461
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multus-admission-controller

OCPBUGS-58771: Update the github.com/golang/glog module to v1.2.4 #101
append .0 to go.mod version #96
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multus-cni, multus-cni-microshift

OCPBUGS-77853: hermetic 4.18 #276
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multus-networkpolicy

OCPBUGS-54939: [release-4.18]: Support default ports value #68
append .0 to go.mod version #70
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multus-whereabouts-ipam-cni

OCPBUGS-59697: Prevent accidental IP deallocation in statefulsets #376
OCPBUGS-58360: The node slice controller should only process valid whereabouts confi… #381
OCPBUGS-58360: Add nodeslicecontroller bin to dockerfile #373
append .0 to go.mod version #370
OCPBUGS-55270: Fix whereabouts-reconciler no namespace error #362
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must-gather

OCPBUGS-46437: Separate resources with comma to fix malformed inspect #470
append .0 to go.mod version #491
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network-interface-bond-cni

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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network-metrics-daemon

OCPBUGS-58781: Bump github.com/golang/glog to v1.2.4 (#111) #111
OCPBUGS-60174: Replace e2e test image (#120) #120
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network-tools

Fix build error #147
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networking-console-plugin

CNV-76277: Fix name generator with unprofessional names #319
OCPBUGS-63582: Fixed - Extra semicolon observed before Service IP in OCP Console #306
OCPBUGS-60178: Fix ingress details #264
OCPBUGS-60124: Fix requiremenets with no value #259
OCPBUGS-57286: Fix pod context #251
CNV-60065: fix cudn input name #240
OCPBUGS-49395: Add translations #238
Add translations scripts #234
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nutanix-machine-controllers

OCPBUGS-51861: fixing CVE-2025-22868 #96
OCPBUGS-54616: Fix link-local addresses being added to machine #101
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oauth-apiserver

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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oauth-proxy

OCPBUGS-61444: Update x/crypto to v0.31.0 #333
OCPBUGS-57172: 4.18 kube 1.31 #317
OCPBUGS-58312: fix e2e tests #325
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oauth-server

OCPBUGS-57300: Updating oauth-server-container image to be consistent with ART for 4.18 #186
append .0 to go.mod version #179
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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
OCPBUGS-62696: v2/cli: show binary version in output #1286
OCPBUGS-62711: generate the archive only after mirroring #1287
OCPBUGS-62432: changes the warning message of 4.21 #1278
And 19 elided commits (e.g. from squash or rebase merges)
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olm-catalogd

OCPBUGS-62872: set the SElinux type #139
And 3 elided commits (e.g. from squash or rebase merges)
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olm-operator-controller

OCPBUGS-62872: set the SElinux type #509
And 12 elided commits (e.g. from squash or rebase merges)
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openshift-apiserver

OCPBUGS-74234: Bump library-go for route path validation fix #603
OCPBUGS-69955: Add ValidatingAdmissionPolicy and check for omissions next time. #589
OCPBUGS-66379: pkg/image: conditionally parse raw image manifest #585
OCPBUGS-65842: UPSTREAM <carry>: bump kubernetes-apiserver to pick up loopback certificate expiration update #581
OCPBUGS-58461: Wire dry run option to Image API server operations #531
OCPBUGS-56609: Fix image reference in TestImageStreamImportQuayIO #514
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openshift-controller-manager

OCPBUGS-61002: legacy image pull secret rollback controller #411
OCPBUGS-57949: ignore error failing to find pull/push secrets #399
OCPBUGS-57344: Set node-pullsecrets volume to read-only to protect image pull credentials #392
OCPBUGS-55699: Empty proxy variables are causing issues during the build #377
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openshift-state-metrics

append .0 to go.mod version #123
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openstack-cluster-api-controllers

OCPBUGS-64816: Merge https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-openstack:release-0.11 into release-4.18 #371
OCPBUGS-44458: Merge https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-openstack:release-0.11 into release-4.18 #365
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openstack-machine-api-provider

OCPBUGS-69648: Don’t record event for every reconcile #143
OCPBUGS-76792: Fix make test #159
OCPBUGS-74986: Revendor CAPO #152
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operator-framework-tools, operator-lifecycle-manager, operator-registry

OCPBUGS-77714: Remove the collect-profiles info from the microshift kustomization file #1245
OCPBUGS-76924: Remove the collect-profiles job #1231
OCPBUGS-65700: Fix TOCTOU race condition in ensureInstallPlan (#3682) #1156
OCPBUGS-61364: [4.18] e2e stability fixes #1080
OCPBUGS-60644: Add NetworkPolicy as a supported kind #1048
OCPBUGS-59421: 🐛 add catalog-operator control-plane-specific tolerations to unpack jobs #1040
OCPBUGS-58882: Reduce Frequency of Update Requests for Copied CSVs (#3597) #1034
OCPBUGS-57427: reduce cache expiry frequency [release-4.19] #1020
OCPBUGS-57314: operatorgroup: ensure clusterroleselectors in clusterrole aggregation rules are sorted #1017
OCPBUGS-56098: fix(olm): improve error logging for missing olm.managed label (#3558) #1001
OCPBUGS-51225, OCPBUGS-51227, OCPBUGS-51245: pin go-jose/v4@v4.0.5 (#3550) #992
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operator-marketplace

OCPBUGS-73883: Increase default catalog polling interval to 4h (240m) #707
OCPBUGS-68272, OCPBUGS-68273: CVE-2025-65637 fixed in logrus v1.9.3+ #703
OCPBUGS-62218: Remove Expect func so that the test case can use the retry logic #669
ART-13123: append .0 to go.mod version #637
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ovirt-csi-driver-operator

OCPBUGS-68284: Bump github.com/sirupsen/logrus to v1.8.3 #150
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ovn-kubernetes, ovn-kubernetes-microshift

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
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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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powervs-machine-controllers

OCPBUGS-61163: Use OS_GIT_VERSION in Makefile when found (for Konflux builds) #125
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prom-label-proxy

append .0 to go.mod version #380
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prometheus

OCPBUGS-61706: chore: compute highestTimestamp at queryManager level #267
OCPBUGS-56732: BACKPORT: fix promtool analyze block shows metric name with 0 cardinality #253
OCPBUGS-54940: Scraping: Bump cache iteration after error to avoid false duplicate detection. #247
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prometheus-alertmanager

OCPBUGS-74976: Include go-verify-deps expected files in gitignore #114
append .0 to go.mod version #101
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prometheus-config-reloader, prometheus-operator, prometheus-operator-admission-webhook

OCPBUGS-77298: backport upstream fix to reconcile resources with inconsistent status #370
OCPBUGS-77398: Validate webhookURL secret for MSTeams receiver in AlertmanagerConfig CRD #366
OCPBUGS-61965: reconcile workload configurations when a referenced secret/configmap key is updated #347
OCPBUGS-58194: Fix: One Alertmanager Config failing blocks all others #335
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prometheus-node-exporter

append .0 to go.mod version #166
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route-controller-manager

OCPBUGS-55338: Added error event for failed ingress to route conversion #59
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telemeter

append .0 to go.mod version #561
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tests

OCPBUGS-77876: Backport: Remove duplicated graceful termination test from release-4.18 #30702
OCPBUGS-74207: Unrevert TLS tests with fixes #30708
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
OCPBUGS-61698: chore(test/extended/prometheus): bump the series limit of total series sent via telemetry from each cluster #30253
OCPBUGS-60511: Bump to latest openshift/kubernetes (v1.31.12) #30230
OCPBUGS-60662: images/tests: Remove rteval #30135
OCPBUGS-60881: Exclude RHEL nodes in verifying that nodes have no unexpected reboots test #30170
OCPBUGS-60881: extended/machines: add –no-pager to journalctl cmds #30180
OCPBUGS-60927: Wait 30s after the upgrade is complete to validate workloads #30179
NO-JIRA: Update extended/networking OWNERS #30089
OCPBUGS-58461: Backport pr 29834 to release-4.18 #29968
OCPBUGS-60066, OCPBUGS-60067: Don’t check for isNoUpgrade #30053
OCPBUGS-60066, OCPBUGS-60067: Tolerate various expected Upgradeable=False conditions #30048
OCPBUGS-57887: Update to Kubernetes v1.31.10 #29941
OCPBUGS-58366: Make EgressIP helper functions more reliable #29950
OCPBUGS-57081: Do not set the MTU when using NetworkAttachementDefinition #29891
OCPBUGS-58044: Boot image controller should correctly handle marketplace boot images #29937
OCPBUGS-57329: Fix failed tests of e2e-aws-ovn-tls-13 #29911
OCPBUGS-56995: Fix bearer token exposure in exit condition as well #29882
OCPBUGS-56438: Update to Kubernetes v1.31.9 #29871
OCPBUGS-56867: Only update boot disks during GCP boot image updates tests #29894
OCPBUGS-55277: backport watch count tracking fixes to 4.18 #29725
OCPBUGS-55667: aws/edge: prevent test using unschedulable nodes #29750
OCPBUGS-55267: Update to Kubernetes v1.31.8 #29765
OCPBUGS-50628: [test: networking] Skip isolation test when cgroupv1 nodes are present #29541
OCPBUGS-55470: [build] Ensure Git Clone Does Not Run Privileged #29736
Revert “OCPBUGS-55277: backport 4.18” #29720
OCPBUGS-55277: backport 4.18 #29645
OCPBUGS-55110: Backport MetricsCollectionProfiles patches to 4.18 #29561
OCPBUGS-54807: support provider type external #29666
OCPBUGS-54725: Fix egress firewall tests by updating the URL from docs.openshift.com to redhat.com #29657
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vsphere-cloud-controller-manager

OCPBUGS-77668: hermetic migration 4.18 #105
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vsphere-cluster-api-controllers

OCPBUGS-78018: hermetic migration 4.18 #84
OCPBUGS-61651: Fix unit tests #70
OCPBUGS-58861: [release-4.18] Update manifests to remove reliance on admissionregistration v1beta1 #62
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vsphere-csi-driver, vsphere-csi-driver-syncer

OCPBUGS-68278: CVE-2025-65637: Bump github.com/sirupsen/logrus to v1.9.3 #156
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vsphere-problem-detector

OCPBUGS-70359: Fixed logic for vSphere compute cluster permission #200
OCPBUGS-60784: Check for number of FailureDomain-s in GetVCenter() #189
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