4.18.55

Download the installer for your operating system or run

oc adm release extract --tools quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.18.55-x86_64

Qualifiers (status api): None

Tests:

Blocking jobs
- upgrade Succeeded (1 retry) periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-stable-4.y-e2e-aws-ovn-upgrade
  - Attempt 1 Failed
  - Attempt 2 Succeeded
- upgrade-minor Succeeded (1 retry) periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-stable-4.y-e2e-aws-ovn-upgrade
  - Attempt 1 Failed
  - Attempt 2 Succeeded
Informing jobs
- aws-ovn-serial Succeeded (1 retry) periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-nightly-4.18-e2e-aws-ovn-serial
  - Attempt 1 Failed
  - Attempt 2 Succeeded
- aws-ovn-single-node-upgrade-4.18-micro Succeeded (1 retry) periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-ci-4.18-e2e-aws-upgrade-ovn-single-node
  - Attempt 1 Failed
  - Attempt 2 Succeeded
- aws-ovn-upgrade-4.18-micro Succeeded (1 retry) periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-ci-4.18-e2e-aws-ovn-upgrade
  - Attempt 1 Failed
  - Attempt 2 Succeeded
- azure-ovn-upgrade-4.18-micro Succeeded (1 retry) periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-ci-4.18-e2e-azure-ovn-upgrade
  - Attempt 1 Failed
  - Attempt 2 Succeeded
- driver-toolkit Succeeded periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-nightly-4.18-e2e-aws-driver-toolkit
- fips-scan Succeeded periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-nightly-4.18-fips-payload-scan
- gcp-ovn-rt-upgrade-4.18-minor Failed (1 retry) periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-ci-4.18-upgrade-from-stable-4.17-e2e-gcp-ovn-rt-upgrade
  - Attempt 1 Failed
  - Attempt 2 Failed
- hypershift-ovn-conformance-4.18 Succeeded periodic-ci-openshift-hypershift-release-4.18-periodics-e2e-aws-ovn-conformance
- metal-ipi-ovn-ipv4 Succeeded (1 retry) periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-nightly-4.18-e2e-metal-ipi-ovn-ipv4
  - Attempt 1 Failed
  - Attempt 2 Succeeded
- metal-ipi-ovn-ipv6 Succeeded (1 retry) periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-nightly-4.18-e2e-metal-ipi-ovn-ipv6
  - Attempt 1 Failed
  - Attempt 2 Succeeded
- 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, 4.17.18, 4.17.19, 4.17.20, 4.17.21, 4.17.22, 4.17.23, 4.17.25, 4.17.26, 4.17.27, 4.17.28, 4.17.29, 4.17.30, 4.17.31, 4.17.32, 4.17.34, 4.17.35, 4.17.36, 4.17.37, 4.17.38, 4.17.39, 4.17.40, 4.17.41, 4.17.42, 4.17.43, 4.17.44, 4.17.45, 4.17.46, 4.17.47, 4.17.48, 4.17.50, 4.17.51, 4.17.52, 4.17.53, 4.17.54, 4.18.10, 4.18.12, 4.18.13, 4.18.14, 4.18.16, 4.18.17, 4.18.18, 4.18.19, 4.18.20, 4.18.21, 4.18.22, 4.18.23, 4.18.24, 4.18.25, 4.18.26, 4.18.27, 4.18.28, 4.18.29, 4.18.31, 4.18.32, 4.18.33, 4.18.34, 4.18.35, 4.18.36, 4.18.37, 4.18.38, 4.18.39, 4.18.4, 4.18.40, 4.18.41, 4.18.42, 4.18.43, 4.18.44, 4.18.45, 4.18.46, 4.18.47, 4.18.48, 4.18.49, 4.18.5, 4.18.50, 4.18.51, 4.18.6, 4.18.7, 4.18.8, 4.18.9

Upgrades to:

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Changes from 4.18.30

Created: 2026-09-10 12:06:46 +0000 UTC

Image Digest: sha256:77724a6074081531299a1f3136ade3f5491d252a5b502a4e26e82f2c65213b95

Components

Kubectl 1.31.1
Kubernetes 1.31.14
Kubernetes Tests 1.31.12
Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS upgraded from 418.94.202512022246-0 to 418.94.202609031320-0 (diff)

FeatureGate Changes

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

Removed images

ovirt-csi-driver
ovirt-csi-driver-operator

Rebuilt images without code change

agent-installer-csr-approver git 81d6bc27 sha256:383ac4ad9fff65be96c031bd219898faf0f562a975dcb19cc25bfb8ae585df4c
agent-installer-orchestrator git 81d6bc27 sha256:d17830844f38b456298e2f6d8194d0542fff7703d2b891b201acc8c51c320bb6
apiserver-network-proxy git 2f62712d sha256:22747472cc89966d9baee18e6e21d378e2c549f03bb597280c23cac9c266c6d7
aws-cloud-controller-manager git c3951906 sha256:98914a20256208a1b4efc730a9b8d3f346040c8f826ce14d1a146e3926653eba
aws-pod-identity-webhook git f54f9a19 sha256:b28a9790304f010189cf6988a35a5fec312b09564f52d4e087606b5a32ee1ef1
azure-machine-controllers git 2fdaa544 sha256:4ebc11a415437f3e29d078eb4f99360cd1fbd4dacb078d7495c7deea270c3df8
azure-workload-identity-webhook git f60e4029 sha256:04af590250360550fc74cccf7cac39f506d7887da0a62905e9866268e2d308c6
baremetal-cluster-api-controllers git 80c3a063 sha256:535dba10db7623483cf0b338c7c512fbeea0f35f511cdc374e7a196ce8e6cc36
baremetal-machine-controllers git 1ede6c3f sha256:316b45930afc44a802add7f13322b5870c209353f6c801d2518e6cc3c685e9e3
baremetal-runtimecfg git 35341068 sha256:5a63b9e169475106b654687f4341b2314dc5cd8d3a81a720dac7bf64dc17cb3e
cluster-autoscaler-operator git 474ad65c sha256:8513d35aa5d8c56cb0329e3264d09f3757b67d35ef3ae49e8cc4435c11854fbd
cluster-bootstrap git d1e01954 sha256:fe0e9fd2511744f1ac9ba4ede0d0d6a2f6ed9c61907572097d8aa75b07c8a75d
cluster-cloud-controller-manager-operator git 8abb0673 sha256:07035d9aa8d6bafca41da15374d65c7e4f4b165fb24ca3162fd0ea53fa14cbc8
cluster-control-plane-machine-set-operator git d17bf3a1 sha256:6619b3476cb49744ce982042c9a1a2d4a0c2496a56ace86b541d17eb0b7bd4be
cluster-csi-snapshot-controller-operator git 6fe70008 sha256:533875e527c3c09ad4247025d1d723837cd42603751f3662d1e6adbde4a7e652
cluster-dns-operator git 7cafd0c7 sha256:2a8b3ce3722bb9dc0e54110b4f5799d89dc5b9adc6c610493a385bdaef3d543e
cluster-image-registry-operator git 1e3caa4b sha256:898829b7d191189fd28244e79147711694d06d095ce903f66b9ecc2f96d5ee29
cluster-kube-storage-version-migrator-operator git 59ba356f sha256:7d3cc7b83dc67ec07fb49e787d92ed09a25f7a3586971b6fe32cf997e01a96f7
cluster-machine-approver git 01d5fbbe sha256:af08ba467c45a961d746161cb1adcff584be27d3e1155ce318fdc3ba489fc615
cluster-openshift-apiserver-operator git 0a6f6eb9 sha256:e58c0eb906754260cb1ac4c7a90798bdfb2fbb9ac74c43b585f47ed002b348f1
cluster-openshift-controller-manager-operator git f1711cf3 sha256:d01419f219c7faaec7b6835ebd15b2a3d5c586299fdd3b1a55b44bc959f9e14d
cluster-samples-operator git bc725fd4 sha256:8fe5d8663897388a43413933c9a33b39eef79d793d6dd89aa844db155a50b3d2
cluster-update-keys git 8caab452 sha256:a1fd4f43fb22855e64a29650939ae3fcad5332d4d40e521f531f6eb350911fbd
configmap-reloader git e2aaf00a sha256:e1e6447eaf3278c5ce4b3f1f0bd05b198022dfca440678df32d57b0d6bc3cf12
coredns git 8ca7f02b sha256:deb94232318b48eb2d71d81b6019f7cef3a95c19c4435e059ce58acc0f08b371
csi-livenessprobe git 3a977844 sha256:219f6143d5f42e9e9acde2c5e54f7f0a7eee7e292b47d0b810dd3a7b31285213
csi-node-driver-registrar git ef93f0be sha256:8bbca14de03996d2792d2c7cd8e6651312570dc4cdd93c9006d2569d445215da
driver-toolkit git 2e139edc sha256:f371dfc70f855ea2c9d74db7fa58187d371d9e5cb57500d520a7681cfbed6d8a
etcd git b5a4f8d0 sha256:5683627053e7001fca99a649cdc514c014baaee0710cf05ae9250475ee373896
gcp-cloud-controller-manager git 6ea23561 sha256:71fd69c5056fed3f775afb4079abb61debbeacdd9b2ddec05fddfcf0e683a644
gcp-workload-identity-federation-webhook git f0a670c7 sha256:ba0735abf23facee9576b954a4c90e0782733a5fac0f1bbaa7ccdeea8ba79ceb
ibm-cloud-controller-manager git a33026b1 sha256:28839b0c6be8e9de8eff6d3b01951d015575cb5bc19c295d85f78d25f583ff5e
ibm-vpc-block-csi-driver-operator git 1c7bc07e sha256:92c99966c5764ed43d38d3322cc292205b116c384241a26a030ebbe9d6a64781
ironic-machine-os-downloader git 50ca44fd sha256:6bf9fe6665635d877d93dc6902976e73bf86fcf54ec8be3911054a933d613d23
ironic-static-ip-manager git cfbae04f sha256:a6958ee5016859059c195d99c5de26d123a4e8681524d1111be696e791569a5a
keepalived-ipfailover git 716eb0ef sha256:d11d433b7db1974843d14f2241d55401f6c6164a18ba7b7404f45d0567f0ba3c
kube-rbac-proxy git 5a14ea9d sha256:49764278abbac26edbc8df11aa7b42372795a8ed184a0685f96884fd41bead3d
multus-admission-controller git 0d7ea6c7 sha256:e4c29db19e0aeb609148a1458352c949eb4e6fb2e70ffac99f7fad587023ceaf
multus-networkpolicy git 3362bbc4 sha256:2ed1b5fc251eb0d0a84a542643d118c38fbf5d0a9ca10d8f2fb4d3e63c68775e
multus-route-override-cni git 391c1b03 sha256:925d87dc6b35111455ae7fe27621168f1c9aff84490046e1a7377be273d7bf13
multus-whereabouts-ipam-cni git 86191ded sha256:ed7396453d05e60f4cedb92cd0dedb175b5789dad3da927e71098c71504cdabe
network-interface-bond-cni git e2de9255 sha256:56b4b940ae10ac20e46761dd3df507b397d471cf472c6bb3650f6bcaacb049fc
network-metrics-daemon git 11e2dec9 sha256:6092d54fae56787996216d135292a602240a4d660c94b0133f1f17ab88680b4b
network-tools git 47b13549 sha256:2eb9676f719af2561049dc7dd964e6f8b8e95204e3d3f3a7b10ea9a41fca4d67
nutanix-cloud-controller-manager git d9fe8f38 sha256:da1f31b959bb1cb2c0ae0db6e68ff79519f4c6050931488b3cf54bfd1fe20f38
nutanix-machine-controllers git afe324bf sha256:02201dad8ed40468a2424ff535d7f1cc68d982b1248f694b9459d5e1c3323050
olm-catalogd git 180aa92c sha256:74d5248487fc349f3651999cca71c33d83d55bd99aec9bbe335b3e93ac14ae8a
openshift-controller-manager git 8ee74406 sha256:5c47353bbc689f556aaf5e42c46197238af552af8a0291b1ae0a4eba7137cac6
openshift-state-metrics git 3cca6fee sha256:29f981c6aa75a03a66a7b068dbe13db07783e868053e778f55488005f111e1d7
powervs-machine-controllers git 74e3ece7 sha256:cde0eabf654f2ca9a3edcf56ca151d749e4d7f7a2c78158456a1269732332b2c
prom-label-proxy git 35c11369 sha256:d40131eb1b40377938a27bf9f8460704e59286e46f4c92d66f7090b6f6e56ae1
prometheus-node-exporter git 92e17ff5 sha256:cc5b637f6e1d119780214c43cbf11c67c164928a862783e5cdb596804fc2aea8
rhel-coreos sha256:c647e543d75422260bc86217136b7a747c49cfb57422a8a71e0f787abe1d23cb
rhel-coreos-extensions sha256:fb721676ab73830ce34ec4cba4fad852c3526698556a8a1632bc1a9ca58ee9c9
service-ca-operator git 30efb529 sha256:cec5ab2fd3a051c9be26f226daeb06ab9bbb07cd37312cedc50980f71366fa68

agent-installer-api-server

OCPBUGS-89884: patching golang.org/x/crypto with sustaining/crypto@v0.33.0-sec.2 #10800
MGMT-23439: Pin gotestsum to v1.12.2 for Go 1.21 compatibility #10019
OCPBUGS-74898: Retry incomplete cluster registration in ABI #8817
OCPBUGS-74911: Remove root=/dev/disk/by-label/dm-mpath-root from kargs #8820
Full changelog

agent-installer-node-agent

MGMT-21849: Skip arping for remote IPs not in outgoing NIC’s subnet #1332
Full changelog

agent-installer-utils

OCPBUGS-68243: bump github.com/sirupsen/logrus to v1.9.3 #237
Full changelog

aws-cluster-api-controllers

OCPBUGS-77903: [release-4.18] update go mod dependency for konflux #589
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aws-ebs-csi-driver

OCPBUGS-82745: Address CVE-2026-35469 #327
OCPBUGS-86167: UPSTREAM: 2367: cleanup: make verify should ignore copyright year #321
OCPBUGS-80206: Replace google.golang.org/grpc with github.com/openshift-sustaining/grpc-go v1.71.3-sec.1 #313
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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-80308: Bump google.golang.org/grpc #542
OCPBUGS-79429: Updating ose-smb-csi-driver-operator-container image to be consistent with ART for 4.18 #531
OCPBUGS-78299: Updating ose-smb-csi-driver-operator-container image to be consistent with ART for 4.17 #524
OCPBUGS-76582: Fix Cinder, Manila driver metrics #501
And 1 elided commits (e.g. from squash or rebase merges)
Full changelog

aws-kms-encryption-provider

OCPBUGS-80184: Bump google.golang.org/grpc to v1.79.3 #43
Full changelog

aws-machine-controllers

OCPBUGS-73789: Fix reconciler consistency checks in Update and Exists #166
Full changelog

azure-cloud-controller-manager, azure-cloud-node-manager

OCPBUGS-80210, OCPBUGS-80211, OCPBUGS-80350: Bump google.golang.org/grpc to v1.79.3 #190
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azure-cluster-api-controllers

OCPBUGS-89899: Address CVE-2026-39829 #401
OCPBUGS-80212: Bump google.golang.org/grpc to v1.79.3 #390
OCPBUGS-77905: [release-4.18] update go mod dependency for konflux #362
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azure-disk-csi-driver

OCPBUGS-114621: UPSTREAM: 3277: fix: allow . in Azure tags #179
OCPBUGS-80213: Address CVE-2026-33186 #142
OCPBUGS-78037: add instantAccessDurationMinutes parameter to enable IA snapshots for PremiumV2/UltraSSD disks #130
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azure-file-csi-driver

OCPBUGS-92789: Bump golang.org/x/crypto to v0.33.0-sec.3 #148
OCPBUGS-80216: Address CVE-2026-33186 #133
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azure-kms-encryption-provider

OCPBUGS-80185: Bump google.golang.org/grpc to 1.64.1-sec.1 patch #46
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baremetal-installer, installer, installer-altinfra, installer-artifacts

OCPBUGS-77052: Update RHCOS-release-4.18 bootimage metadata to 418.94.202608142238-0 #10795
OCPBUGS-95616: azure: Add field in installconfig to disallow shared access key #10670
OCPBUGS-78550: fix wavelength zone name regex #10409
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
Full changelog

baremetal-operator

OCPBUGS-98321: Add BMH finalizer on PreprovisioningImage #509
OCPBUGS-59259: Fix HFC error handling in actionPreparing #502
OCPBUGS-87967: Fix preprovisioning network Secret lifecycle during BMH deletion #495
OCPBUGS-76988: Unblock BMH direct deletion when detached annotation is present #461
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cli, cli-artifacts, deployer, tools

OCPBUGS-91365, OCPBUGS-94688: Bump golang.org/x/net to openshift-sustaining/net v0.35.0-sec.2 #2344
OCPBUGS-109669: Fix pre-existing unit test failures on release-4.18 #2372
OCPBUGS-83872: pkg/cli/admin/upgrade: Tighten force warnings #2165
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cloud-credential-operator

OCPBUGS-81887: Bump go-jose/go-jose/v4@v4.1.4 #1031
OCPBUGS-80219: Fix CVE-2026-33186 using openshift-sustaining grpc-go fork #1041
OCPBUGS-74548: Resolve nil pointer exception in hasResourceTags #968
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cloud-network-config-controller

OCPBUGS-73750: [release-4.18] Fix pointers without ptr.Deref #199
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cluster-authentication-operator

OCPBUGS-75897: set appropriate rolling update settings #835
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cluster-autoscaler

OCPBUGS-78699: allow clusterapi provider to skip paused resources #413
OCPBUGS-75925: Fixes histograms becoming empty after loaded from checkpoints #402
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cluster-baremetal-operator

OCPBUGS-81549: Explicitly set the ReadOnlyRootFilesystem flag to false #584
OCPBUGS-78708: Update kubebuilder tools to more latest version #579
OCPBUGS-57590: Mount the user-ca-bundle into ICC #486
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cluster-capi-controllers

OCPBUGS-80220: Bump google.golang.org/grpc to v1.79.3 #297
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cluster-capi-operator

OCPBUGS-80224: Bump google.golang.org/grpc to v1.79.3 #566
NO-JIRA: Allow sustaining engineering to self serve dependency updates #558
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cluster-config-api

OCPBUGS-98486: add new serviceAccountToken fs type #2927
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
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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-78776: [release-4.18] : Prefer to remove members where they have another healthy machine in the same failure domain index #1573
OCPBUGS-76284: Add priority field to prevent early shutdown #1545
OCPBUGS-63451: Ensure revision.json persists on ungraceful shutdown #1503
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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
And 1 elided commits (e.g. from squash or rebase merges)
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cluster-kube-apiserver-operator

OCPBUGS-76284: Add priority field to prevent early shutdown #2031
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cluster-kube-cluster-api-operator

OCPBUGS-80231: Bump google.golang.org/grpc to v1.79.3 #77
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cluster-kube-controller-manager-operator

OCPBUGS-76284: Add priority field to prevent early shutdown #906
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cluster-kube-scheduler-operator

CNTRLPLANE-2843: chore: update OWNERS #622
OCPBUGS-76284: Add priority field to prevent early shutdown #612
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cluster-monitoring-operator

OCPBUGS-104540: Backport e2e stabilization 4.18 #3030
OCPBUGS-100375: [release-4.18] fix: watch cluster wide proxy changes and apply changes accordingly #3024
OCPBUGS-94081: ship collector:node_scrape_collector_success:avg to Telemetry #2992
OCPBUGS-86995: increase lookup interval #2944
OCPBUGS-77274: AlertingRule: fix duplicate PrometheusRules after MD5->SHA-224 naming change #2833
OCPBUGS-67168: Add the collection of MTV migration metrics #2774
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cluster-network-operator

OCPBUGS-100191: Bump github.com/containernetworking/cni v0.8.0 -> v1.3.0 #3096
OCPBUGS-85443: Remove duplicated openssl parameter #3006
OCPBUGS-84869: wait for patch port to apply drop garp flows #2988
OCPBUGS-84180: fix(hypershift): use net.JoinHostPort for URL construction #2977
OCPBUGS-77151: Add config override for openflow-probe #2965
OCPBUGS-78833: Fix whereabouts-token-watcher DaemonSet improvements #2940
OCPBUGS-74154: whereabouts-config is a reserved name for user interaction. #2884
OCPBUGS-73767: Tweak iptables-alerter to try to avoid crictl bug #2877
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cluster-node-tuning-operator

OCPBUGS-90575: Requeue PerformanceStatus update when status write fails #1552
OCPBUGS-82752: Bump github.com/moby/spdystream from v0.4.0 to v0.5.1 #1544
OCPBUGS-75954: PPC: filter out namespaces dir #1465
OCPBUGS-69947: [release-4.18] E2E: skip stalld test checking sched_fifo #1451
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cluster-olm-operator

OCPBUGS-80239: Bump google.golang.org/grpc to v1.79.3 #200
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cluster-policy-controller

OCPBUGS-98486: Backport fs type service account token 4.18 #196
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cluster-storage-operator

OCPBUGS-87556: remove oVirt code from CSO 4.18 #707
OCPBUGS-77627: add vsphere permissions for checking if users is authorized to see metrics #670
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cluster-version-operator

OCPBUGS-70182: Unify capitalization when comparing architectures for available updates #1327
NO-ISSUE: hongkai becomes an approver release-4.18 #1286
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console

OCPBUGS-100515, OCPBUGS-101791: Fix CVE-2026-69153 and CVE-2026-45623 - Bump postcss #17058
OCPBUGS-98420: [release-4.18] CVE-2026-59869 bump js-yaml #17076
OCPBUGS-81520: Console can only show user name instead of full name as the display name #16238
OCPBUGS-86740, OCPBUGS-87085, OCPBUGS-97763: [release-4.18] bump package: protobufjs, fast-uri #16728
OCPBUGS-100069: quickstart page i18n misses (Fix Quick Starts i18n bundle lookup for zh-CN) #16872
OCPBUGS-91944: Prevent binary secret data corruption when editing #16673
OCPBUGS-99487: Disable Knative e2e Cypress tests in CI #16803
OCPBUGS-99648: Disable shipwright e2e tests to unblock CI #16818
OCPBUGS-86453: [release-4.18] shell-quote: Arbitrary code execution via command injection due to unescaped line terminators #16511
Fix for OCPBUGS-81604: CVE-2026-4800 #16563
OCPBUGS-84284: Bump follow-redirects to 1.16.0 to fix CVE-2026-40895 #16675
OCPBUGS-77125: [release-4.18] CVE-2026-26996 Bump minimatch library #16344
OCPBUGS-79447: Bump immutable #16325
NO-JIRA: enable multi-architecture yarn builds #16421
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
Full changelog

console-operator

OCPBUGS-98985: [4.18] Stabilize telemetry config to prevent continuous console pod rollouts #1190
OCPBUGS-77861: update go mod dependency for konflux #1113
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container-networking-plugins, containernetworking-plugins-microshift

OCPBUGS-85672: CI Build root image tag sync with ART #236
Full changelog

csi-driver-manila, openstack-cinder-csi-driver, openstack-cloud-controller-manager

OCPBUGS-80309: Bump google.golang.org/grpc #387
Full changelog

csi-driver-nfs

OCPBUGS-82754: Bump github.com/moby/spdystream@v0.5.1 #194
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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csi-external-attacher

OCPBUGS-80255: Bump google.golang.org/grpc to v1.79.3 #105
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csi-external-provisioner

OCPBUGS-82755: Address CVE-2026-35469 #135
OCPBUGS-80256: Bump google.golang.org/grpc #130
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csi-external-resizer

OCPBUGS-80257: Bump google.golang.org/grpc to v1.79.3 #203
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csi-external-snapshotter, csi-snapshot-controller, csi-snapshot-validation-webhook

OCPBUGS-80258, OCPBUGS-80261, OCPBUGS-80262: Bump google.golang.org/grpc to v1.79.3 #211
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docker-builder

OCPBUGS-66990: bump buildah to 1.37.7 to fix CVE-2025-52881 #498
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docker-registry

OCPBUGS-68253: update logrus to v1.9.1 #464
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egress-router-cni

OCPBUGS-100191: Bump containernetworking/cni to v1.3.0 github.com/containernetworking/plugins to 1.4.0 #109
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gcp-cluster-api-controllers

OCPBUGS-80270: Bump google.golang.org/grpc to v1.79.3 #290
OCPBUGS-78278: [release-4.18] update go mod dependency for konflux #265
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gcp-machine-controllers

OCPBUGS-80293: Bump google.golang.org/grpc to v1.79.3 #165
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gcp-pd-csi-driver

OCPBUGS-80274: Bump google.golang.org/grpc to v1.71.3-sec.1 in release-4.18 #112
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

gcp-pd-csi-driver-operator

OCPBUGS-80273: Replace google.golang.org/grpc with fork #187
Full changelog

haproxy-router

OCPBUGS-86726: Prevent SSRF via FQDN-typed EndpointSlices #821
OCPBUGS-86715: Strip X-SSL-* headers for plain HTTP #800
OCPBUGS-80275: Bump google.golang.org/grpc to v1.79.3 #768
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
Full changelog

hypershift

ACM-37663: Rebase hypershift operator runtime image to RHEL 9.8 ELS #9451
ACM-38044: update Containerfile.cli base images to floating tags [release-4.18] #9044
OCPBUGS-99142: fix(backport): konnectivity agent auth #9096
OCPBUGS-62756: Restart HCP on stale serving certs #8245
OCPBUGS-89356: build(operator): drop hypershift-no-cgo from operator container images #8760
NO-JIRA: remove path filter from control-plane-operator pipelines #8665
OCPBUGS-80278: fix CVE-2026-33186 by replacing grpc-go #8515
OCPBUGS-84180: fix(cno): use brackets only for IPv6 in server URL #8346
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
Full changelog

ibm-vpc-block-csi-driver

OCPBUGS-80280: Bump google.golang.org/grpc to v1.79.3 #143
OCPBUGS-77207: [release-4.18] standardize build paths #122
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ibmcloud-cluster-api-controllers

OCPBUGS-103453: Replace golang.org/x/net with openshift-sustaining/net #172
OCPBUGS-115513: Fetch envtest assets from the controller-tools releases #183
OCPBUGS-67286: [release-4.18] Fix incomplete vendor/ #140
Full changelog

ibmcloud-machine-controllers

OCPBUGS-103467: replace golang.org/x/net with openshift-sustaining/net v0.35.0-sec.4 #104
OCPBUGS-41223: Updating ose-ibmcloud-machine-controllers-container image to be consistent with ART for 4.18 #45
NO-JIRA: vendor golint instead of relying on the CI build root #115
OCPBUGS-81647: bump vpc go sdk #91
NO-JIRA: Modernize test infrastructure to align with other MAPI providers #87
Full changelog

insights-operator

OCPBUGS-80283: Bump google.golang.org/grpc to v1.79.3 #1283
OCPBUGS-76963: Extends the time for the extractor liveness probe #1234
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
Full changelog

insights-runtime-exporter, insights-runtime-extractor

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

ironic

OCPBUGS-88475: Updating openstack-ironic commit that fixes CVE-2026-43003 #903
OCPBUGS-105860: update ironic pin to include CVE-2026-54423 fix (release-4.18) #893
OCPBUGS-100164: Update openstack-ironic commit hash for CVE-2026-44918 #888
OCPBUGS-76459: Bump pyasn1 to 0.5.1-4 #826
OCPBUGS-74407: Update sushy to include DGX B200 credentials fix #832
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
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ironic-agent

OCPBUGS-99888: Correct ironic-python-agent pin to include the CVE-2026-66138 fix #314
OCPBUGS-88475: Update openstack-ironic-python-agent commit hash that address CVE-2026-43003 #313
OCPBUGS-99888: Bump ironic-python-agent pinned commit for CVE-2026-66138 #308
OCPBUGS-95066: Replace individual package removal with a single rpm -e loop #286
OCPBUGS-95066: Replace dnf remove with rpm -e to prevent dependency removal #274
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
Full changelog

kube-metrics-server

OCPBUGS-80190: Bump google.golang.org/grpc to v1.79.3 #64
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
Full changelog

kubevirt-cloud-controller-manager

OCPBUGS-39554: Updating ose-kubevirt-cloud-controller-manager-container image to be consistent with ART for 4.18 #45
OCPBUGS-95084: OWNERS: Update component to Cloud Compute / KubeVirt Provider #77
Full changelog

kubevirt-csi-driver

OCPBUGS-80191: Bump google.golang.org/grpc to v1.79.3 #101
OCPBUGS-79362: Add annotation-based fallback for infra VM node ID resolution #86
Full changelog

libvirt-machine-controllers

OCPBUGS-77194: Fix incomplete vendor/ #300
Full changelog

machine-api-operator

OCPBUGS-78795: [release-4.18] : correct aws kms permissions #1478
OCPBUGS-78796: [release-4.18] Use resource group when generating default Azure image #1480
Full changelog

machine-config-operator

OCPBUGS-105477: Replace wildcard permissions with explicit verbs and resources in MCC ClusterRole #6391
OCPBUGS-94116: move cleanUpDuplicatedMC to avoid double reboot on first updated #6249
OCPBUGS-91747: Verify extension packages are installed #6216
OCPBUGS-98445: Remove sensitive ControllerConfig logging #6294
OCPBUGS-97588: Bootstrap MCS logging entire ignition #6268
OCPBUGS-86845: Apply password only if changes exist #6113
OCPBUGS-86695: use –delete-if-present for karg removal #6102
OCPBUGS-86844: Fix ssh and password rollbacks #6096
OCPBUGS-86692: Fix re-cordon detection #6101
OCPBUGS-86300: Add terminationMessagePolicy to build pod containers #6074
OCPBUGS-86021: Fix units rollback if update failure #6052
OCPBUGS-79483: set default-timeout-stop to 200s globally #5805
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
Full changelog

machine-image-customization-controller

OCPBUGS-82149: Return error when network data Secret lacks nmstate key #174
OCPBUGS-77888: Clean up dnf cache to reduce container image size #168
OCPBUGS-68262: [4.18] Uplift logrus #151
Full changelog

machine-os-images

OCPBUGS-87876: Add support for hermetic builds via Cachi2 prefetched CoreOS ISOs #100
Full changelog

metallb-frr

OCPBUGS-74485: Dockerfile: unpin FRR rpm #121
Full changelog

monitoring-plugin

OCPBUGS-74461: CVE-2025-13465 openshift4/ose-monitoring-plugin-rhel9: prototype pollution in _.unset and _.omit functions [openshift-4.18] #1141
OCPBUGS-79448: immutable bump: fix for CVE-2026-29063 #922
OU-1241: unset frontend timeout to use the backend configuration #905
OCPBUGS-83374: fix: re encode params when redirecting from graph to query-browser #878
NO-JIRA: fix: pin http-errors to 2.0.1 for hermetic builds #870
OU-993: adding cypress Dockerfiles #861
OU-876: monitoring automated testing backported and adjusted to pf-5 and diff UI #777
NO-JIRA: simplify dockerfile by removing cachito dependencies [release-4.18] #818
OCPBUGS-70291: fix: update qs vulnerable dependency #739
Full changelog

multus-cni, multus-cni-microshift

OCPBUGS-85249: Fix server url in kubeconfig #298
NO-ISSUE: [release-4.18] Bump Go to 1.22 and fix CI build root image #291
OCPBUGS-77853: hermetic 4.18 #276
Full changelog

must-gather

OCPBUGS-86019: Collect object size with the object count #547
Full changelog

networking-console-plugin

OCPBUGS-98784: Updating linkify-it to 5.0.2 to fix CVE-2026-48801 #460
OCPBUGS-99991: Updating networking-console-plugin-container image to be consistent with ART for 4.18 #454
OCPBUGS-41880: Fix namespace retention between NetworkPolicies tabs when MultiNetworkPolicies are disabled #433
OCPBUGS-41880: Retain namespace selection between network policies tabs #424
OCPBUGS-87000: Update Dockerfile.art to 4.22 build image #426
OCPBUGS-83382: Fix CVE 2026 34043 serialize javascript 4.18 #413
[release-4:18] OCPBUGS-85067: Migration from yarn to npm #412
OCPBUGS-81606: Fix CVE-2026-CVE-2026-4800 in lodash #401
OCPBUGS-79449: Bump immutable #390
CNV-76277: Fix name generator with unprofessional names #319
OCPBUGS-63582: Fixed - Extra semicolon observed before Service IP in OCP Console #306
And 1 elided commits (e.g. from squash or rebase merges)
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oauth-apiserver

NO-JIRA: (chore): update OWNERS file #170
Full changelog

oauth-server

OCPBUGS-81803: Bump github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v3 from v3.0.3 to v3.0.5 #238
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oc-mirror

OCPBUGS-66051: Remove empty status field from generated IDMS/ITMS files (manual 4.18 backport) #1324
Full changelog

olm-operator-controller

OCPBUGS-100434: increase catalog HTTP client timeout from 10s to 5m #787
OCPBUGS-87830: [release-4.18] operator-controller: clean up orphaned temp dirs in catalog cache #751
OCPBUGS-80304: Update grpc-go to v1.71.3-sec.1 to fix CVE-2026-33186 #735
Full changelog

openshift-apiserver

OCPBUGS-82769: Address CVE-2026-35469 #657
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
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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
Full changelog

openstack-machine-api-provider

OCPBUGS-93867: Revendor CAPO #174
OCPBUGS-69648: Don’t record event for every reconcile #143
OCPBUGS-76792: Fix make test #159
OCPBUGS-74986: Revendor CAPO #152
Full changelog

operator-framework-tools, operator-lifecycle-manager, operator-registry

OCPBUGS-80311, OCPBUGS-80312, OCPBUGS-80313: Fix CVE-2026-33186 with openshift-sustaining/grpc-go v1.71.3-sec.1 [release-4.18] #1314
OCPBUGS-81473: Fix nil pointer dereference in sortUnpackJobs when sorting non-failed jobs #1273
OCPBUGS-77714: Remove the collect-profiles info from the microshift kustomization file #1245
OCPBUGS-76924: Remove the collect-profiles job #1231
Full changelog

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
Full changelog

ovn-kubernetes, ovn-kubernetes-microshift

OCPBUGS-112810, OCPBUGS-113507: Branch Sync release-4.19 to release-4.18 [08-21-2026] #3410
OCPBUGS-105851: Branch Sync release-4.19 to release-4.18 [08-11-2026] #3386
OCPBUGS-82773: Bump github.com/moby/spdystream to v0.5.1 #3321
OCPBUGS-98957: Branch Sync release-4.19 to release-4.18 [07-09-2026] #3290
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
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powervs-block-csi-driver

OCPBUGS-80317: Fix CVE-2026-33186 by bumping google.golang.org/grpc to 1.79.3 #130
OCPBUGS-82774: Fix CVE-2026-35469 by bumping github.com/moby/spdystream to v0.5.1 #124
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-block-csi-driver-operator

OCPBUGS-80318: Fix CVE-2026-33186 by bumping google.golang.org/grpc to 1.79.3 #111
Full changelog

powervs-cloud-controller-manager

OCPBUGS-80319: Replace google.golang.org/grpc with openshift-sustaining fork v1.71.3-sec.1 to v1.79.3 to fix CVE-2026-33186 #99
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prometheus

OCPBUGS-88628: remote: validate snappy decoded length before allocation in read endpoint #346
OCPBUGS-80320: Bump google.golang.org/grpc to v1.79.3 #308
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prometheus-alertmanager

OCPBUGS-98183: build(deps): hashicorp/memberlist to a forked version #165
OCPBUGS-100355: Set testdata CA expiry to 20 years from issue date (#4112) #148
OCPBUGS-74976: Include go-verify-deps expected files in gitignore #114
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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
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route-controller-manager

OCPBUGS-80199: Bump google.golang.org/grpc to v1.79.3 #85
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telemeter

OCPBUGS-80333: Bump google.golang.org/grpc to v1.79.3 #599
OCPBUGS-81804: [release-4.18] Fix CVE-2026-34986 #596
Full changelog

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
Full changelog

thanos

OCPBUGS-80335: Bump google.golang.org/grpc to v1.79.3 #184
Full changelog

vsphere-cloud-controller-manager

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

OCPBUGS-80340: Bump google.golang.org/grpc to v1.79.3 #104
OCPBUGS-78018: hermetic migration 4.18 #84
Full changelog

vsphere-csi-driver, vsphere-csi-driver-syncer

OCPBUGS-92888: Bump golang.org/x/crypto/ssh to v0.33.0-sec.3 #193
OCPBUGS-80343: Bump google.golang.org/grpc to v1.79.3 #176
OCPBUGS-68278: CVE-2025-65637: Bump github.com/sirupsen/logrus to v1.9.3 #156
Full changelog

vsphere-csi-driver-operator

OCPBUGS-81673: Fix password escaping #342
Full changelog

vsphere-problem-detector

OCPBUGS-103545: Bump golang.org/x/net to v0.35.0-sec.4 #233
OCPBUGS-81556: fix concurrent map writes #215
OCPBUGS-70359: Fixed logic for vSphere compute cluster permission #200
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