4.18.51

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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 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 Failed (1 retry) periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-ci-4.18-e2e-azure-ovn-upgrade
  - Attempt 1 Failed
  - Attempt 2 Failed
- 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 Failed (1 retry) periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-nightly-4.18-e2e-metal-ipi-ovn-ipv4
  - Attempt 1 Failed
  - Attempt 2 Failed
- 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: 4.17.15, 4.17.16, 4.17.17, 4.17.18, 4.17.19, 4.17.20, 4.17.21, 4.17.22, 4.17.23, 4.17.24, 4.17.25, 4.17.26, 4.17.27, 4.17.28, 4.17.29, 4.17.30, 4.17.31, 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, 4.17.45, 4.17.46, 4.17.47, 4.17.48, 4.17.49, 4.17.50, 4.17.51, 4.17.52, 4.17.53, 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, 4.18.22, 4.18.23, 4.18.24, 4.18.25, 4.18.26, 4.18.27, 4.18.28, 4.18.29, 4.18.30, 4.18.31, 4.18.32, 4.18.33, 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, 4.18.5, 4.18.6, 4.18.7, 4.18.8, 4.18.9

Upgrades to:

4.19.41 (changes) - Success
4.19.0-0.nightly-2026-07-30-183057 (changes) - Success
4.19.0-0.ci-2026-07-30-215628 (changes) - Success

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Changes from 4.18.21

Created: 2026-07-30 12:30:59 +0000 UTC

Image Digest: sha256:0bf08effa1f11a7afd1c21574a1d25b4004b12511fe790c651162074e48e06fe

Components

Kubectl 1.31.1
Kubernetes upgraded from 1.31.10 to 1.31.14
Kubernetes Tests upgraded from 1.31.10 to 1.31.12
Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS upgraded from 418.94.202507221927-0 to 418.94.202607272025-0 (diff)

FeatureGate Changes

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

Removed images

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

Rebuilt images without code change

agent-installer-csr-approver git 81d6bc27 sha256:d5c81c528372a0af60bad52014aceb73b25c5ab8028064d61bff393757243498
agent-installer-orchestrator git 81d6bc27 sha256:a477bb1a3690ae1c85df7fac9a701508bf48b722c83125e105be374e75e31fe0
apiserver-network-proxy git 2f62712d sha256:c7efabadbaa9c5f7189f95600b98b0d93a02aa5804e8dc4aa0ca7e1b56d42c7b
aws-cloud-controller-manager git c3951906 sha256:c9e51bafc946796bc53d55a7ad39ee96854f55c0c4d403842208ba3fc2efa6ef
aws-pod-identity-webhook git f54f9a19 sha256:c062f84b43beaffbc081edf411bff58387863a56d5aa0b90ce2acbb9359a184c
azure-workload-identity-webhook git f60e4029 sha256:6ad8ef0e71849fee5845f6b77a05ad7ac3171578b969eafe92dcde292918cc91
baremetal-machine-controllers git 1ede6c3f sha256:885101028342b1319eb4c2c263591dc829c4c07a938f48d7a2749d8db3cacb0c
cluster-autoscaler-operator git 474ad65c sha256:4fe84bfcfe84ced15f38f8936e3d6eed1d5e230e869b6f107e4a4f9c1a206cff
cluster-bootstrap git d1e01954 sha256:39dfc674c39d95b04ee9f937838bd06923aedd732667afb115253f7438c32ab3
cluster-control-plane-machine-set-operator git d17bf3a1 sha256:4ebae4768c1086150a4ba384763d0ae6c4d7e191fb6b1959382ed9aed0875633
cluster-csi-snapshot-controller-operator git 6fe70008 sha256:325bc38fa2657ceb3eb5b274766a01d8a9ea308e27929094e33d81ba292e6a5c
cluster-dns-operator git 7cafd0c7 sha256:339dface3a610f4932b54a0fff7fe576c57080754ca23d22e76bdbb6984df7f4
cluster-image-registry-operator git 1e3caa4b sha256:53eca2f9021c69c82efbf5cc5596a6f5db2116720f53a95d3677549c52228abb
cluster-kube-storage-version-migrator-operator git 59ba356f sha256:229bddd3fdef1e4902cdc9f1f5659baf521581ea29418071aab052297ab1bcf2
cluster-machine-approver git 01d5fbbe sha256:fe8d548803c23a6f000ef5fc65f2d92f32d32e55414570926314ccb1b2b44bfc
cluster-openshift-apiserver-operator git 0a6f6eb9 sha256:b76e3a398c21c29b4d5953523e1cbd28e3fe7f90d60f1ae921dab6fcfb6d470a
cluster-openshift-controller-manager-operator git f1711cf3 sha256:963c736f33a2ef2d9137ac61c73c1d7f8ee4f3127e583cc8c80735db91b01c4b
cluster-update-keys git 8caab452 sha256:eaef047b37196c5abcb05f8f49bb49b3097f10df884997fe48626d0f2d03f959
configmap-reloader git e2aaf00a sha256:7c80f5449af7b60ed202292cf2fe60fa74994bc4ff7e3453b8b39b7f0408bf40
csi-livenessprobe git 3a977844 sha256:d7ce2dc9d417df810508171f368452d5bae29adf2cba830c4ea590ed0a3fdf38
driver-toolkit git 2e139edc sha256:14580d43056d87cf84a2ce5f2fc7fa5ad3dd47745e53f431bff1203db20a7b77
egress-router-cni git 3193a756 sha256:af90de440d330522a6d3bf7480930540857bfa0f8bb34d7e45cef5588f3d2771
gcp-cloud-controller-manager git 6ea23561 sha256:3545b7c488b55a6ee59c08b98cbb46903b7263bd1c675eb9c7387f98c4ea9221
gcp-workload-identity-federation-webhook git f0a670c7 sha256:042b2b6874a0b5c87a9d28f346502df162c2b4ca5aa60a1dddeb88f91f600381
ibm-cloud-controller-manager git a33026b1 sha256:670fb97fd79c95d8c4e6b6ff708008dcbf3c2c698fedb7368cebff1acba3c8de
ibm-vpc-block-csi-driver-operator git 1c7bc07e sha256:603ddeb473538c664b2070486698e6e33bf7e265bc06809feed9e366948d9b1a
ironic-machine-os-downloader git 50ca44fd sha256:3df178f2cdc1b46a0fb728b1ce65689052c1728cfacadd4ad95383017a625202
ironic-static-ip-manager git cfbae04f sha256:ed2f49e3c58eea6c1d9d12e1155e276168276a18a4473932d0c586bbdb850bb1
keepalived-ipfailover git 716eb0ef sha256:9097157776640685b367edb3390ff71695d2e2f5b7d7b35b8d90c9eaea000207
multus-route-override-cni git 391c1b03 sha256:4be426aad394aaf5844d4c16c25bfc1f8d64ad2eea6e788c993398ba7c6dcbc1
network-tools git 47b13549 sha256:d6e1b9f85fce112b5b8653476015ec43a919c6eddc2991c9cc937142f751d77a
nutanix-cloud-controller-manager git d9fe8f38 sha256:adc10fc5d406d0b751d635339297ade1be9e71028698fd0ebcf89d25bba1eca2
nutanix-machine-controllers git afe324bf sha256:db199a30324a878740c117dca73797b92e3cc5670a0b4572640d8f575dfd67d2
openshift-state-metrics git 3cca6fee sha256:c6b7b3949cf1ea735703b596557d473769d6c897197b4cd2b4f18d13fd66bd0b
prom-label-proxy git 35c11369 sha256:65b89f5be4934d619b68044ef33c77ccaf2d9f80c7136e3e237c6799eae9c65f
prometheus-node-exporter git 92e17ff5 sha256:2f4a2ac6cf694886502391467d63497f084ca303483791c984113334f93a27d8
rhel-coreos sha256:3493f43c22c3d53713d9e81838574d8726aaccea9853412a93d074c8ec8028ac
rhel-coreos-extensions sha256:fa0e9623b44d355f62485beba39a741a7efe9488874a8cb08bfa226ab345b72d
service-ca-operator git 30efb529 sha256:522e72edcbb4c78c6dddb550d1765af6817a47ceac6bbad2da5b2f5c911771a1

agent-installer-api-server

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
And 2 elided commits (e.g. from squash or rebase merges)
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agent-installer-node-agent

MGMT-21849: Skip arping for remote IPs not in outgoing NIC’s subnet #1332
And 1 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
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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
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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
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-kms-encryption-provider

OCPBUGS-80184: Bump google.golang.org/grpc to v1.79.3 #43
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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
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-80212: Bump google.golang.org/grpc to v1.79.3 #390
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-disk-csi-driver

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-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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azure-machine-controllers

OCPBUGS-65882: Set updateDomainCount to one when faultDomainCount is one #175
OCPBUGS-63669: Support datadisks on Stack Hub #167
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baremetal-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-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
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
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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
OCPBUGS-56766: Make firmware update handle only a subset of Spec.Updates #421
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baremetal-runtimecfg

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

OCPBUGS-83872: pkg/cli/admin/upgrade: Tighten force warnings #2165
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
Full changelog

cloud-credential-operator

OCPBUGS-80219: Fix CVE-2026-33186 using openshift-sustaining grpc-go fork #1041
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
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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
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cluster-authentication-operator

OCPBUGS-75897: set appropriate rolling update settings #835
OCPBUGS-49749: Exclude etcd readiness checks from /readyz to ignore temporary etcd hiccups #754
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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
OCPBUGS-60908: revert openshift replica fix #375
OCPBUGS-60235: fix checkpoint gc of unknown recommenders #368
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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
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-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-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-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
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
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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
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
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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
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
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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
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
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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
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cluster-monitoring-operator

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
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
Full changelog

cluster-network-operator

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
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
Full changelog

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
OCPBUGS-63450: Do not cause kubelet failed dependency by ocp-tuned-one-shot.service #1417
And 2 elided commits (e.g. from squash or rebase merges)
Full changelog

cluster-olm-operator

OCPBUGS-80239: Bump google.golang.org/grpc to v1.79.3 #200
Full changelog

cluster-policy-controller

OCPBUGS-98486: Backport fs type service account token 4.18 #196
Full changelog

cluster-samples-operator

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

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

console

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
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
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
And 2 elided commits (e.g. from squash or rebase merges)
Full changelog

container-networking-plugins, containernetworking-plugins-microshift

OCPBUGS-85672: CI Build root image tag sync with ART #236
OCPBUGS-60871: [release-4.18] host-device: Return interface name in result #208
Full changelog

coredns

OCPBUGS-60462: UPSTREAM: 7083 and 6836: Fix failing TestZoneExternalCNAMELookupWithProxy #152
Full changelog

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

OCPBUGS-80309: Bump google.golang.org/grpc #387
OCPBUGS-57800: Rebase release-4.18 onto release-1.31 #322
Full changelog

csi-driver-nfs

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
Full changelog

csi-external-attacher

OCPBUGS-80255: Bump google.golang.org/grpc to v1.79.3 #105
Full changelog

csi-external-provisioner

OCPBUGS-82755: Address CVE-2026-35469 #135
OCPBUGS-80256: Bump google.golang.org/grpc #130
Full changelog

csi-external-resizer

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

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
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
Full changelog

docker-registry

OCPBUGS-68253: update logrus to v1.9.1 #464
IR-526: remove AWS region check #437
Full changelog

etcd

OCPBUGS-57112: Updating ose-etcd-container image to be consistent with ART for 4.18 #333
Full changelog

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
OCPBUGS-58861: Update manifests to remove reliance on admission registration v1beta1 #247
Full changelog

gcp-machine-controllers

OCPBUGS-80293: Bump google.golang.org/grpc to v1.79.3 #165
OCPBUGS-59387: Add max-concurrent-reconciles flag to machine actuator #126
Full changelog

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-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
Full changelog

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
Full changelog

hypershift

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
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
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
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-81647: bump vpc go sdk #91
NO-JIRA: Modernize test infrastructure to align with other MAPI providers #87
OCPBUGS-47135: CVE-2024-45338 ose-ibmcloud-machine-controllers-container: Non-linear parsing of case-insensitive content in golang.org/x/net/html [openshift-4.18] #69
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
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 5 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-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
OCPBUGS-65573: Include Handle HTTP 400 and 409 race condition in Redfish power opera… #727
OCPBUGS-62647: Bump sushy to include etag fix #701
Full changelog

ironic-agent

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-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
Full changelog

kubevirt-cloud-controller-manager

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
OCPBUGS-63670: Add awels as an approver in 4.18 branch #73
OCPBUGS-61700: Implement volume expansion #71
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
OCPBUGS-59387: Enabled 10 concurrent reconciles on GCP #1392
Full changelog

machine-config-operator

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
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
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-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
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
Full changelog

multus-admission-controller

OCPBUGS-58771: Update the github.com/golang/glog module to v1.2.4 #101
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

multus-networkpolicy

OCPBUGS-54939: [release-4.18]: Support default ports value #68
Full changelog

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
Full changelog

must-gather

OCPBUGS-86019: Collect object size with the object count #547
OCPBUGS-46437: Separate resources with comma to fix malformed inspect #470
Full changelog

network-interface-bond-cni

OCPBUGS-62793: Use netlinksafe instead of netlink to avoid netlink.ErrDumpInterrupted #99
Full changelog

network-metrics-daemon

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

networking-console-plugin

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
OCPBUGS-60178: Fix ingress details #264
OCPBUGS-60124: Fix requiremenets with no value #259
And 1 elided commits (e.g. from squash or rebase merges)
Full changelog

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
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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
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 4 elided commits (e.g. from squash or rebase merges)
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olm-catalogd

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

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
OCPBUGS-62872: set the SElinux type #509
And 2 elided commits (e.g. from squash or rebase merges)
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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
OCPBUGS-65842: UPSTREAM <carry>: bump kubernetes-apiserver to pick up loopback certificate expiration update #581
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openshift-controller-manager

OCPBUGS-61002: legacy image pull secret rollback controller #411
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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
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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
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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
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
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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
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ovn-kubernetes, ovn-kubernetes-microshift

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
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
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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
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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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powervs-machine-controllers

OCPBUGS-61163: Use OS_GIT_VERSION in Makefile when found (for Konflux builds) #125
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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
OCPBUGS-61706: chore: compute highestTimestamp at queryManager level #267
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prometheus-alertmanager

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
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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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
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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
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thanos

OCPBUGS-80335: Bump google.golang.org/grpc to v1.79.3 #184
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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
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-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
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vsphere-csi-driver-operator

OCPBUGS-81673: Fix password escaping #342
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vsphere-problem-detector

OCPBUGS-81556: fix concurrent map writes #215
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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