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Review commit-by-commit. Don't be scared of the size, the majority is the new vendor dependency.

This PR introduces a link between CLI and/or unit test failures to the underlying CODEOWNERS for the corresponding test files, and pretty-prints a message after the test failure to indicate who can assist with understanding the test and stabilizing the results. See the lines with the ⛑️:

CLI Example:

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Unit test example:

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Related: cilium/cilium-cli#2936 will allow this logic to also pick up owners from the github workflow where the CLI is run.

Tested here: #37593 (comment) .

Note that for CLI test failures, tests that properly use a.Fail(), a.Fatal() and similar functions to trigger a failure in an individual test action correctly, the attribution will go correctly to the test owner. Tests that fail directly with the top-level test fail functions (ie not t.Fail(), t.Fatal(), ...) will be attributed to @cilium/ci-structure.

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/test

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Hit #36375 in integration tests, and it's nicely demonstrating the new functionality:

⛑️ The following owners are responsible for reliability of the failing test(s):
Package Owner
github.com/cilium/cilium/pkg/proxy/proxyports @cilium/proxy

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Just working on getting github workflows to pass into CLI runs so that we can ensure workflow owners are also mentioned in the list (in case that makes a difference for some multi-owner tests).

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@joestringer I think we also want the .github/ changes in stable branches, once the CLI version bump has fully rolled out? Adding backport labels accordingly.

@julianwiedmann julianwiedmann added backport/author The backport will be carried out by the author of the PR. needs-backport/1.15 needs-backport/1.16 This PR / issue needs backporting to the v1.16 branch needs-backport/1.17 This PR / issue needs backporting to the v1.17 branch labels Feb 28, 2025
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Operating on older branches will require a little more thought, unless we want this to just point towards Committers for every failure. Let me think on it 👍

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This should do the trick, plus backports:
#38044
#38045

(more to come but the core is there)

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###
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[Compare
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release!

A total of **3298 new commits** have been contributed to this release by
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To keep up to date with all the latest Cilium releases, see
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Here's what's new in
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#### 🚠 Networking

- **⚖️ Load Balancing Redesign**: The service load-balancing
control-plane in the Cilium agent has been redesigned to reduce memory
usage and improve future extensibility of load-balancing features
([cilium/cilium#38469](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38469),
[@&#8203;joamaki](https://redirect.github.com/joamaki))
- **🔌 Virtual Network Devices**: Added support for new virtual network
device configurations such as VXLAN in IPsec (VinE) and IPIP tunnels
([cilium/cilium#37723](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37723),
[@&#8203;ldelossa](https://redirect.github.com/ldelossa);
[cilium/cilium#37346](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37346),
[@&#8203;gyutaeb](https://redirect.github.com/gyutaeb))
- **Ⓜ️ Multiple Egress Gateways**: Egress Gateways policies can now
direct traffic towards multiple gateway nodes
([cilium/cilium#39304](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39304),
[@&#8203;carlos-abad](https://redirect.github.com/carlos-abad))
- **🚦 Ingress Rate Limiting**: The bandwidth manager now supports
ingress rate limiting
([cilium/cilium#36351](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36351),
[@&#8203;l1b0k](https://redirect.github.com/l1b0k))
- **📢 Multi-Device L2 Announcements**: The L2 pod announcement feature
now supports multiple devices
([cilium/cilium#38198](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38198),
[@&#8203;dylandreimerink](https://redirect.github.com/dylandreimerink))
- **🏢 Neighbor Subsystem Rework**: The neighbor subsystem was made more
resilient through a new system that reconciles desired neighbor entries
with the kernel state
([cilium/cilium#39987](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39987),
[@&#8203;dylandreimerink](https://redirect.github.com/dylandreimerink))

#### 🌐 IPv6

- **🚇 Tunneling Underlay**: The tunneling datapath mode now supports
using an IPv6 network underlay, including when configured with IPsec
transparent encryption
([cilium/cilium#38296](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38296),
[cilium/cilium#39497](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39497),
[@&#8203;pchaigno](https://redirect.github.com/pchaigno))
- **💬 Kube Proxy Replacement**: Cilium now implements service
translation when running on an IPv6 underlay
([cilium/cilium#39074](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39074),
[@&#8203;pchaigno](https://redirect.github.com/pchaigno))
- **📋 Delegated IPAM**: When delegating IP address management to a third
party plugin, Cilium now configures IPv6 routes for connectivity if the
plugin supports IPv6
([cilium/cilium#38249](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38249),
[@&#8203;caorui-io](https://redirect.github.com/caorui-io),
[@&#8203;kadevu](https://redirect.github.com/kadevu))
- **📦 IP Fragment Support**: Cilium now processes ordered IPv6 fragments
to apply policy and routing functionality
([cilium/cilium#38110](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38110),
[@&#8203;gentoo-root](https://redirect.github.com/gentoo-root))
- **🚪 Egress gateway policies** can now match IPv6 address ranges
([cilium/cilium#38452](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38452),
[@&#8203;rgo3](https://redirect.github.com/rgo3))

#### 🛡️ Policy & Observability

- **🏷️ Policy Names in Hubble-CLI**: Show the names of (C)CNPs that
allowed or denied traffic when monitoring flows in Hubble
([cilium/cilium#39453](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39453),
[@&#8203;antonipp](https://redirect.github.com/antonipp))
- **📝 Policy Log Fields**: A new free-text log field is added to
policies, which is exposed in Hubble flows for easy correlation and
searching
([cilium/cilium#39902](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39902),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed))
- **🛰️ Encapsulated Traffic Decoding**: Hubble decodes encapsulated
traffic for deeper introspection into traffic flows
([cilium/cilium#37634](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37634),
[@&#8203;kaworu](https://redirect.github.com/kaworu))
- **🏰 ClusterMesh Policy Restriction**: A new option allows the
**cluster** entity to apply only to the local cluster in ClusterMesh
environment
([cilium/cilium#39338](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39338),
[@&#8203;MrFreezeex](https://redirect.github.com/MrFreezeex))
- **✨ Enhanced Policy Dashboard**: The Policy section of the Cilium
Grafana dashboard has been improved to show more relevant graphs,
including policy drops in both directions
([cilium/cilium#36492](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36492),
[cilium/cilium#37445](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37445),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed))

#### 🌅 Performance

- **📊 Scale Test Results**: Cilium implements policies and services up
to 45% faster in higher scale environments (Various;
[@&#8203;marseel](https://redirect.github.com/marseel),
[cilium/cilium#40227](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40227))
- **📦 Image Size Reduction**: Docker image sizes are reduced by 32% on
arm64 architecture images
([cilium/cilium#40005](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40005),
[@&#8203;marseel](https://redirect.github.com/marseel))
- **⚡ Improved Policy Performance**: The DNS proxy can process large
numbers of IPs faster, and the EndpointSelector match implementation has
been optimized
([cilium/cilium#39340](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39340),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed);
[cilium/cilium#40414](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40414),
[@&#8203;marseel](https://redirect.github.com/marseel))
- **🪞 EndpointSlice Mirroring for Multi-Cluster Services**: Clustermesh
mirrors EndpointSlice from the local cluster instead of copying the
Service selectors when using the MCS-API controller
([cilium/cilium#38596](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38596),
[@&#8203;MrFreezeex](https://redirect.github.com/MrFreezeex))
- **🌐 KVStoreMesh Optimization**: Cross-cluster state distribution is
optimized by only synchronizing identities keyed by ID, not by value
([cilium/cilium#36471](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36471),
[@&#8203;HadrienPatte](https://redirect.github.com/HadrienPatte))
- **🧠 Egress Gateway Processing**: Egress gateway policy processing is
significantly improved when matching a large number of pods
([cilium/cilium#37714](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37714),
[@&#8203;giorio94](https://redirect.github.com/giorio94))
- **🗑️ Optimized Garbage Collection for Connection Tracking**: Cilium
leverages batched iterators for CTMap GC
([cilium/cilium#36288](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36288),
[@&#8203;tommyp1ckles](https://redirect.github.com/tommyp1ckles))

#### ⚙️ Operations

- **📈 API Server Connections at Scale**: Improve kube-apiserver
connections behavior at scale through failover and setting better jitter
and backoff configurations
([cilium/cilium#37601](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37601),
[@&#8203;aditighag](https://redirect.github.com/aditighag);
[cilium/cilium#38031](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38031),
[@&#8203;orange30](https://redirect.github.com/orange30);
[cilium/cilium#36648](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36648),
[@&#8203;wedaly](https://redirect.github.com/wedaly))
- **🔄 ConfigMap Synchronization**: New option to automatically
synchronize ConfigMap changes into the agent and report metrics for when
the effective configuration is different from the desired configuration
([cilium/cilium#36510](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36510),
[@&#8203;ovidiutirla](https://redirect.github.com/ovidiutirla))
- **🎓 CRD Promotion to Stable**: Promote **CiliumCIDRGroup**,
**CiliumLoadBalancerIPPool** and all **BGP** CRDs to stable API
([cilium/cilium#38940](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38940),
[@&#8203;christarazi](https://redirect.github.com/christarazi);
[cilium/cilium#39090](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39090),
[@&#8203;pippolo84](https://redirect.github.com/pippolo84);
[cilium/cilium#37765](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37765),
[@&#8203;rastislavs](https://redirect.github.com/rastislavs))
- **⛔ Node Taints Handling**: The cilium-operator Deployment uses a new
default set of taints which avoids deploying to a drained node
([cilium/cilium#40137](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40137),
[@&#8203;Murat](https://redirect.github.com/Murat) Parlakisik)
- **:wood: Migrate to Slog**: Cilium now uses slog as log library for
all components
([cilium/cilium#39664](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39664),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- **🔧 Cilium dependencies** were updated to Kubernetes v1.33, Envoy
v1.34, LLVM 19.1, and CNI v1.1
([cilium/cilium#39124](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39124),
[cilium/cilium#40175](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40175),
[cilium/cilium#39632](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39632),
[@&#8203;sayboras](https://redirect.github.com/sayboras);
[cilium/cilium#38868](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38868),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed))
- **🐧 Minimum Linux Requirements**: The minimum kernel version for this
release series is Linux v5.10 or similar, such as RHEL 8.6
([cilium/cilium#38308](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38308),
[@&#8203;julianwiedmann](https://redirect.github.com/julianwiedmann))

#### 🕸️ Service Mesh & Gateway API

- **⛩️ Gateway API v1.3.0**: Gateway API support is bumped to v1.3.0
([cilium/cilium#39590](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39590),
[@&#8203;sayboras](https://redirect.github.com/sayboras))
- **🔗 Improved GatewayClass Configuration**: The new
CiliumGatewayClassConfig object adds service type validation allows the
configuration of extra settings on a per-GatewayClass level:
LoadBalancerSourceRangesPolicy, ParametersRef fields. This allows Cilium
to reconcile multiple GatewayClasses with different configurations
([cilium/cilium#37792](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37792),
[cilium/cilium#37402](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37402),
[cilium/cilium#40138](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40138),
[@&#8203;sayboras](https://redirect.github.com/sayboras))
- **🚏 Multiple HTTPRoutes**: GAMMA reconciler now supports attaching
multiple HTTPRoutes to the same Service
([cilium/cilium#39922](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39922),
[@&#8203;youngnick](https://redirect.github.com/youngnick))
- **🪄 Route Changes Reconciliation**: Reconcile Gateway API based on all
changes to routes. This allows label updates to trigger reconciliation
correctly, amongst other things
([cilium/cilium#37798](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37798),
[@&#8203;sayboras](https://redirect.github.com/sayboras))

#### 🏷️ IP Address Management

- **☁️ AWS Prefix Delegation**: Prefix delegation on AWS bare metal
instances is now supported natively in Cilium's AWS ENI IPAM mode
([cilium/cilium#39678](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39678),
[@&#8203;41ks](https://redirect.github.com/41ks))
- **🏬 Multi-Pool IPAM with KVStore**: Add support for Multi-Pool IPAM in
external KVstore mode
([cilium/cilium#39638](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39638),
[@&#8203;pippolo84](https://redirect.github.com/pippolo84))
- **🔐 Multi-Pool IPAM with IPSec**: Add support for Multi-Pool IPAM mode
with IPSec transparent encryption in tunnel routing mode
([cilium/cilium#39442](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39442),
[@&#8203;pippolo84](https://redirect.github.com/pippolo84))
- **↪️ Multi-Pool Tunnel Routing**: Add support for tunnel routing in
multi-pool IPAM mode
([cilium/cilium#38483](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38483),
[@&#8203;pippolo84](https://redirect.github.com/pippolo84))

#### 🛣️ BGP

- **📇 Route Aggregation**: Add support for BGP route aggregation in the
control plane
([cilium/cilium#37275](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37275),
[@&#8203;romanspb80](https://redirect.github.com/romanspb80))
- **🎯 Overlapping Selector Matches**: Support overlapping selector
matches in **CiliumBGPAdvertisement** resources
([cilium/cilium#36414](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36414),
[@&#8203;dswaffordcw](https://redirect.github.com/dswaffordcw))
- **🆔 New Router ID generation modes**: Generate router-id based on MAC
addresses, or from an IP address pool
([cilium/cilium#36451](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36451),
[@&#8203;yushoyamaguchi](https://redirect.github.com/yushoyamaguchi);
[cilium/cilium#38300](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38300),
[@&#8203;liyihuang](https://redirect.github.com/liyihuang))

#### 🧑‍💻 Development Experience

- **🧪 Test attribution**: Identify owners of test in GitHub workflow
results to make it easier to connect with other developers on tricky
problems
([cilium/cilium#37027](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37027),
[@&#8203;Joe](https://redirect.github.com/Joe) Stringer)
- **🛏️ Policy REST API**: The Cilium policy API exposed over a local
unix socket is deprecated. The other mechanisms to configure policy via
Kubernetes resources or the local filesystem are preferred
([cilium/cilium#40212](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40212),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed))
- **🏗️ Feature Deprecation**: Deprecate underused features like Custom
Calls, Recorder API and External Workloads
([cilium/cilium#38480](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38480),
[cilium/cilium#39642](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39642),
[cilium/cilium#37418](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37418),
[@&#8203;brb](https://redirect.github.com/brb))

#### 🏢 Community

- **❤️ Production Case Studies**: Many end-users have stepped forward to
tell their stories running Cilium in production. If your company wants
to submit their case studies let us know. We would love to hear your
feedback!
- [ByteDance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKPW67D7X10), [Canopus
Networks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXl9xuIxylY), [Corner
Banca](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVPKSefazl4), [DB
Schenker](https://www.cncf.io/case-studies/db-schenker/),
[eBay](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEa4KFf5FzY),
[ECCO](https://www.cncf.io/case-studies/ecco/),
[G-Research](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjSFN34dROQ), [Social
Network
Company](https://cilium.io/blog/2025/04/15/tetragon-social-networking-user-story/),
and [Preferred Networks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7_I4zu6f_M)
- **🇬🇧 London Events**: The community gathered at
[CiliumCon](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/co-located-events/ciliumcon/)
and the [Cilium Developer
Summit](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/dev-summits/tree/main/2025-EU)
in London
- **🇺🇸 Atlanta Events**: Meet us at the upcoming
[CiliumCon](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/co-located-events/ciliumcon/)
and Cilium Developers Summit in Atlanta, Georgia
- **👥 SIG Community Meetings**: [SIG
Community](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/community/tree/main/sig-community)
now meets every first and third Thursday to foster, grow, and sustain
the Cilium open source community

#### 📔 Full CHANGELOG

- Full CHANGELOG.md can be found
[here](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/blob/v1.18.0/CHANGELOG.md).

And finally, we would like to thank you to all contributors of Cilium
that helped directly and indirectly with the project. The success of
Cilium could not happen without all of you. ❤️ :people\_holding\_hands:
❤️

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###
[`v1.18.0`](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.18.0):
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[Compare
Source](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/compare/1.17.6...1.18.0)

We are excited to announce the **[Cilium
1.18.0](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.18.0)**
release!

A total of **3298 new commits** have been contributed to this release by
a growing community of over **955 developers** and over **22,000 GitHub
stars**! ⭐

To keep up to date with all the latest Cilium releases, see
[Announcements](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/discussions/categories/announcements)

Here's what's new in
[v1.18.0](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.18.0):

#### 🚠 Networking

- **⚖️ Load Balancing Redesign**: The service load-balancing
control-plane in the Cilium agent has been redesigned to reduce memory
usage and improve future extensibility of load-balancing features
([cilium/cilium#38469](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38469),
[@&#8203;joamaki](https://redirect.github.com/joamaki))
- **🔌 Virtual Network Devices**: Added support for new virtual network
device configurations such as VXLAN in IPsec (VinE) and IPIP tunnels
([cilium/cilium#37723](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37723),
[@&#8203;ldelossa](https://redirect.github.com/ldelossa);
[cilium/cilium#37346](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37346),
[@&#8203;gyutaeb](https://redirect.github.com/gyutaeb))
- **Ⓜ️ Multiple Egress Gateways**: Egress Gateways policies can now
direct traffic towards multiple gateway nodes
([cilium/cilium#39304](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39304),
[@&#8203;carlos-abad](https://redirect.github.com/carlos-abad))
- **🚦 Ingress Rate Limiting**: The bandwidth manager now supports
ingress rate limiting
([cilium/cilium#36351](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36351),
[@&#8203;l1b0k](https://redirect.github.com/l1b0k))
- **📢 Multi-Device L2 Announcements**: The L2 pod announcement feature
now supports multiple devices
([cilium/cilium#38198](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38198),
[@&#8203;dylandreimerink](https://redirect.github.com/dylandreimerink))
- **🏢 Neighbor Subsystem Rework**: The neighbor subsystem was made more
resilient through a new system that reconciles desired neighbor entries
with the kernel state
([cilium/cilium#39987](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39987),
[@&#8203;dylandreimerink](https://redirect.github.com/dylandreimerink))

#### 🌐 IPv6

- **🚇 Tunneling Underlay**: The tunneling datapath mode now supports
using an IPv6 network underlay, including when configured with IPsec
transparent encryption
([cilium/cilium#38296](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38296),
[cilium/cilium#39497](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39497),
[@&#8203;pchaigno](https://redirect.github.com/pchaigno))
- **💬 Kube Proxy Replacement**: Cilium now implements service
translation when running on an IPv6 underlay
([cilium/cilium#39074](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39074),
[@&#8203;pchaigno](https://redirect.github.com/pchaigno))
- **📋 Delegated IPAM**: When delegating IP address management to a third
party plugin, Cilium now configures IPv6 routes for connectivity if the
plugin supports IPv6
([cilium/cilium#38249](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38249),
[@&#8203;caorui-io](https://redirect.github.com/caorui-io),
[@&#8203;kadevu](https://redirect.github.com/kadevu))
- **📦 IP Fragment Support**: Cilium now processes ordered IPv6 fragments
to apply policy and routing functionality
([cilium/cilium#38110](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38110),
[@&#8203;gentoo-root](https://redirect.github.com/gentoo-root))
- **🚪 Egress gateway policies** can now match IPv6 address ranges
([cilium/cilium#38452](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38452),
[@&#8203;rgo3](https://redirect.github.com/rgo3))

#### 🛡️ Policy & Observability

- **🏷️ Policy Names in Hubble-CLI**: Show the names of (C)CNPs that
allowed or denied traffic when monitoring flows in Hubble
([cilium/cilium#39453](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39453),
[@&#8203;antonipp](https://redirect.github.com/antonipp))
- **📝 Policy Log Fields**: A new free-text log field is added to
policies, which is exposed in Hubble flows for easy correlation and
searching
([cilium/cilium#39902](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39902),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed))
- **🛰️ Encapsulated Traffic Decoding**: Hubble decodes encapsulated
traffic for deeper introspection into traffic flows
([cilium/cilium#37634](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37634),
[@&#8203;kaworu](https://redirect.github.com/kaworu))
- **🏰 ClusterMesh Policy Restriction**: A new option allows the
**cluster** entity to apply only to the local cluster in ClusterMesh
environment
([cilium/cilium#39338](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39338),
[@&#8203;MrFreezeex](https://redirect.github.com/MrFreezeex))
- **✨ Enhanced Policy Dashboard**: The Policy section of the Cilium
Grafana dashboard has been improved to show more relevant graphs,
including policy drops in both directions
([cilium/cilium#36492](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36492),
[cilium/cilium#37445](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37445),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed))

#### 🌅 Performance

- **📊 Scale Test Results**: Cilium implements policies and services up
to 45% faster in higher scale environments (Various;
[@&#8203;marseel](https://redirect.github.com/marseel),
[cilium/cilium#40227](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40227))
- **📦 Image Size Reduction**: Docker image sizes are reduced by 32% on
arm64 architecture images
([cilium/cilium#40005](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40005),
[@&#8203;marseel](https://redirect.github.com/marseel))
- **⚡ Improved Policy Performance**: The DNS proxy can process large
numbers of IPs faster, and the EndpointSelector match implementation has
been optimized
([cilium/cilium#39340](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39340),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed);
[cilium/cilium#40414](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40414),
[@&#8203;marseel](https://redirect.github.com/marseel))
- **🪞 EndpointSlice Mirroring for Multi-Cluster Services**: Clustermesh
mirrors EndpointSlice from the local cluster instead of copying the
Service selectors when using the MCS-API controller
([cilium/cilium#38596](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38596),
[@&#8203;MrFreezeex](https://redirect.github.com/MrFreezeex))
- **🌐 KVStoreMesh Optimization**: Cross-cluster state distribution is
optimized by only synchronizing identities keyed by ID, not by value
([cilium/cilium#36471](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36471),
[@&#8203;HadrienPatte](https://redirect.github.com/HadrienPatte))
- **🧠 Egress Gateway Processing**: Egress gateway policy processing is
significantly improved when matching a large number of pods
([cilium/cilium#37714](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37714),
[@&#8203;giorio94](https://redirect.github.com/giorio94))
- **🗑️ Optimized Garbage Collection for Connection Tracking**: Cilium
leverages batched iterators for CTMap GC
([cilium/cilium#36288](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36288),
[@&#8203;tommyp1ckles](https://redirect.github.com/tommyp1ckles))

#### ⚙️ Operations

- **📈 API Server Connections at Scale**: Improve kube-apiserver
connections behavior at scale through failover and setting better jitter
and backoff configurations
([cilium/cilium#37601](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37601),
[@&#8203;aditighag](https://redirect.github.com/aditighag);
[cilium/cilium#38031](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38031),
[@&#8203;orange30](https://redirect.github.com/orange30);
[cilium/cilium#36648](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36648),
[@&#8203;wedaly](https://redirect.github.com/wedaly))
- **🔄 ConfigMap Synchronization**: New option to automatically
synchronize ConfigMap changes into the agent and report metrics for when
the effective configuration is different from the desired configuration
([cilium/cilium#36510](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36510),
[@&#8203;ovidiutirla](https://redirect.github.com/ovidiutirla))
- **🎓 CRD Promotion to Stable**: Promote **CiliumCIDRGroup**,
**CiliumLoadBalancerIPPool** and all **BGP** CRDs to stable API
([cilium/cilium#38940](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38940),
[@&#8203;christarazi](https://redirect.github.com/christarazi);
[cilium/cilium#39090](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39090),
[@&#8203;pippolo84](https://redirect.github.com/pippolo84);
[cilium/cilium#37765](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37765),
[@&#8203;rastislavs](https://redirect.github.com/rastislavs))
- **⛔ Node Taints Handling**: The cilium-operator Deployment uses a new
default set of taints which avoids deploying to a drained node
([cilium/cilium#40137](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40137),
[@&#8203;Murat](https://redirect.github.com/Murat) Parlakisik)
- **:wood: Migrate to Slog**: Cilium now uses slog as log library for
all components
([cilium/cilium#39664](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39664),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- **🔧 Cilium dependencies** were updated to Kubernetes v1.33, Envoy
v1.34, LLVM 19.1, and CNI v1.1
([cilium/cilium#39124](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39124),
[cilium/cilium#40175](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40175),
[cilium/cilium#39632](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39632),
[@&#8203;sayboras](https://redirect.github.com/sayboras);
[cilium/cilium#38868](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38868),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed))
- **🐧 Minimum Linux Requirements**: The minimum kernel version for this
release series is Linux v5.10 or similar, such as RHEL 8.6
([cilium/cilium#38308](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38308),
[@&#8203;julianwiedmann](https://redirect.github.com/julianwiedmann))

#### 🕸️ Service Mesh & Gateway API

- **⛩️ Gateway API v1.3.0**: Gateway API support is bumped to v1.3.0
([cilium/cilium#39590](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39590),
[@&#8203;sayboras](https://redirect.github.com/sayboras))
- **🔗 Improved GatewayClass Configuration**: The new
CiliumGatewayClassConfig object adds service type validation allows the
configuration of extra settings on a per-GatewayClass level:
LoadBalancerSourceRangesPolicy, ParametersRef fields. This allows Cilium
to reconcile multiple GatewayClasses with different configurations
([cilium/cilium#37792](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37792),
[cilium/cilium#37402](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37402),
[cilium/cilium#40138](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40138),
[@&#8203;sayboras](https://redirect.github.com/sayboras))
- **🚏 Multiple HTTPRoutes**: GAMMA reconciler now supports attaching
multiple HTTPRoutes to the same Service
([cilium/cilium#39922](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39922),
[@&#8203;youngnick](https://redirect.github.com/youngnick))
- **🪄 Route Changes Reconciliation**: Reconcile Gateway API based on all
changes to routes. This allows label updates to trigger reconciliation
correctly, amongst other things
([cilium/cilium#37798](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37798),
[@&#8203;sayboras](https://redirect.github.com/sayboras))

#### 🏷️ IP Address Management

- **☁️ AWS Prefix Delegation**: Prefix delegation on AWS bare metal
instances is now supported natively in Cilium's AWS ENI IPAM mode
([cilium/cilium#39678](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39678),
[@&#8203;41ks](https://redirect.github.com/41ks))
- **🏬 Multi-Pool IPAM with KVStore**: Add support for Multi-Pool IPAM in
external KVstore mode
([cilium/cilium#39638](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39638),
[@&#8203;pippolo84](https://redirect.github.com/pippolo84))
- **🔐 Multi-Pool IPAM with IPSec**: Add support for Multi-Pool IPAM mode
with IPSec transparent encryption in tunnel routing mode
([cilium/cilium#39442](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39442),
[@&#8203;pippolo84](https://redirect.github.com/pippolo84))
- **↪️ Multi-Pool Tunnel Routing**: Add support for tunnel routing in
multi-pool IPAM mode
([cilium/cilium#38483](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38483),
[@&#8203;pippolo84](https://redirect.github.com/pippolo84))

#### 🛣️ BGP

- **📇 Route Aggregation**: Add support for BGP route aggregation in the
control plane
([cilium/cilium#37275](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37275),
[@&#8203;romanspb80](https://redirect.github.com/romanspb80))
- **🎯 Overlapping Selector Matches**: Support overlapping selector
matches in **CiliumBGPAdvertisement** resources
([cilium/cilium#36414](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36414),
[@&#8203;dswaffordcw](https://redirect.github.com/dswaffordcw))
- **🆔 New Router ID generation modes**: Generate router-id based on MAC
addresses, or from an IP address pool
([cilium/cilium#36451](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36451),
[@&#8203;yushoyamaguchi](https://redirect.github.com/yushoyamaguchi);
[cilium/cilium#38300](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38300),
[@&#8203;liyihuang](https://redirect.github.com/liyihuang))

#### 🧑‍💻 Development Experience

- **🧪 Test attribution**: Identify owners of test in GitHub workflow
results to make it easier to connect with other developers on tricky
problems
([cilium/cilium#37027](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37027),
[@&#8203;Joe](https://redirect.github.com/Joe) Stringer)
- **🛏️ Policy REST API**: The Cilium policy API exposed over a local
unix socket is deprecated. The other mechanisms to configure policy via
Kubernetes resources or the local filesystem are preferred
([cilium/cilium#40212](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40212),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed))
- **🏗️ Feature Deprecation**: Deprecate underused features like Custom
Calls, Recorder API and External Workloads
([cilium/cilium#38480](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38480),
[cilium/cilium#39642](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39642),
[cilium/cilium#37418](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37418),
[@&#8203;brb](https://redirect.github.com/brb))

#### 🏢 Community

- **❤️ Production Case Studies**: Many end-users have stepped forward to
tell their stories running Cilium in production. If your company wants
to submit their case studies let us know. We would love to hear your
feedback!
- [ByteDance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKPW67D7X10), [Canopus
Networks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXl9xuIxylY), [Corner
Banca](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVPKSefazl4), [DB
Schenker](https://www.cncf.io/case-studies/db-schenker/),
[eBay](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEa4KFf5FzY),
[ECCO](https://www.cncf.io/case-studies/ecco/),
[G-Research](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjSFN34dROQ), [Social
Network
Company](https://cilium.io/blog/2025/04/15/tetragon-social-networking-user-story/),
and [Preferred Networks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7_I4zu6f_M)
- **🇬🇧 London Events**: The community gathered at
[CiliumCon](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/co-located-events/ciliumcon/)
and the [Cilium Developer
Summit](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/dev-summits/tree/main/2025-EU)
in London
- **🇺🇸 Atlanta Events**: Meet us at the upcoming
[CiliumCon](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/co-located-events/ciliumcon/)
and Cilium Developers Summit in Atlanta, Georgia
- **👥 SIG Community Meetings**: [SIG
Community](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/community/tree/main/sig-community)
now meets every first and third Thursday to foster, grow, and sustain
the Cilium open source community

#### 📔 Full CHANGELOG

- Full CHANGELOG.md can be found
[here](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/blob/v1.18.0/CHANGELOG.md).

And finally, we would like to thank you to all contributors of Cilium
that helped directly and indirectly with the project. The success of
Cilium could not happen without all of you. ❤️ :people\_holding\_hands:
❤️

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[`v1.18.0`](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.18.0):
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We are excited to announce the **[Cilium
1.18.0](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.18.0)**
release!

A total of **3298 new commits** have been contributed to this release by
a growing community of over **955 developers** and over **22,000 GitHub
stars**! ⭐

To keep up to date with all the latest Cilium releases, see
[Announcements](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/discussions/categories/announcements)

Here's what's new in
[v1.18.0](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.18.0):

#### 🚠 Networking

- **⚖️ Load Balancing Redesign**: The service load-balancing
control-plane in the Cilium agent has been redesigned to reduce memory
usage and improve future extensibility of load-balancing features
([cilium/cilium#38469](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38469),
[@&#8203;joamaki](https://redirect.github.com/joamaki))
- **🔌 Virtual Network Devices**: Added support for new virtual network
device configurations such as VXLAN in IPsec (VinE) and IPIP tunnels
([cilium/cilium#37723](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37723),
[@&#8203;ldelossa](https://redirect.github.com/ldelossa);
[cilium/cilium#37346](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37346),
[@&#8203;gyutaeb](https://redirect.github.com/gyutaeb))
- **Ⓜ️ Multiple Egress Gateways**: Egress Gateways policies can now
direct traffic towards multiple gateway nodes
([cilium/cilium#39304](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39304),
[@&#8203;carlos-abad](https://redirect.github.com/carlos-abad))
- **🚦 Ingress Rate Limiting**: The bandwidth manager now supports
ingress rate limiting
([cilium/cilium#36351](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36351),
[@&#8203;l1b0k](https://redirect.github.com/l1b0k))
- **📢 Multi-Device L2 Announcements**: The L2 pod announcement feature
now supports multiple devices
([cilium/cilium#38198](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38198),
[@&#8203;dylandreimerink](https://redirect.github.com/dylandreimerink))
- **🏢 Neighbor Subsystem Rework**: The neighbor subsystem was made more
resilient through a new system that reconciles desired neighbor entries
with the kernel state
([cilium/cilium#39987](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39987),
[@&#8203;dylandreimerink](https://redirect.github.com/dylandreimerink))

#### 🌐 IPv6

- **🚇 Tunneling Underlay**: The tunneling datapath mode now supports
using an IPv6 network underlay, including when configured with IPsec
transparent encryption
([cilium/cilium#38296](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38296),
[cilium/cilium#39497](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39497),
[@&#8203;pchaigno](https://redirect.github.com/pchaigno))
- **💬 Kube Proxy Replacement**: Cilium now implements service
translation when running on an IPv6 underlay
([cilium/cilium#39074](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39074),
[@&#8203;pchaigno](https://redirect.github.com/pchaigno))
- **📋 Delegated IPAM**: When delegating IP address management to a third
party plugin, Cilium now configures IPv6 routes for connectivity if the
plugin supports IPv6
([cilium/cilium#38249](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38249),
[@&#8203;caorui-io](https://redirect.github.com/caorui-io),
[@&#8203;kadevu](https://redirect.github.com/kadevu))
- **📦 IP Fragment Support**: Cilium now processes ordered IPv6 fragments
to apply policy and routing functionality
([cilium/cilium#38110](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38110),
[@&#8203;gentoo-root](https://redirect.github.com/gentoo-root))
- **🚪 Egress gateway policies** can now match IPv6 address ranges
([cilium/cilium#38452](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38452),
[@&#8203;rgo3](https://redirect.github.com/rgo3))

#### 🛡️ Policy & Observability

- **🏷️ Policy Names in Hubble-CLI**: Show the names of (C)CNPs that
allowed or denied traffic when monitoring flows in Hubble
([cilium/cilium#39453](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39453),
[@&#8203;antonipp](https://redirect.github.com/antonipp))
- **📝 Policy Log Fields**: A new free-text log field is added to
policies, which is exposed in Hubble flows for easy correlation and
searching
([cilium/cilium#39902](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39902),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed))
- **🛰️ Encapsulated Traffic Decoding**: Hubble decodes encapsulated
traffic for deeper introspection into traffic flows
([cilium/cilium#37634](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37634),
[@&#8203;kaworu](https://redirect.github.com/kaworu))
- **🏰 ClusterMesh Policy Restriction**: A new option allows the
**cluster** entity to apply only to the local cluster in ClusterMesh
environment
([cilium/cilium#39338](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39338),
[@&#8203;MrFreezeex](https://redirect.github.com/MrFreezeex))
- **✨ Enhanced Policy Dashboard**: The Policy section of the Cilium
Grafana dashboard has been improved to show more relevant graphs,
including policy drops in both directions
([cilium/cilium#36492](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36492),
[cilium/cilium#37445](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37445),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed))

#### 🌅 Performance

- **📊 Scale Test Results**: Cilium implements policies and services up
to 45% faster in higher scale environments (Various;
[@&#8203;marseel](https://redirect.github.com/marseel),
[cilium/cilium#40227](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40227))
- **📦 Image Size Reduction**: Docker image sizes are reduced by 32% on
arm64 architecture images
([cilium/cilium#40005](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40005),
[@&#8203;marseel](https://redirect.github.com/marseel))
- **⚡ Improved Policy Performance**: The DNS proxy can process large
numbers of IPs faster, and the EndpointSelector match implementation has
been optimized
([cilium/cilium#39340](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39340),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed);
[cilium/cilium#40414](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40414),
[@&#8203;marseel](https://redirect.github.com/marseel))
- **🪞 EndpointSlice Mirroring for Multi-Cluster Services**: Clustermesh
mirrors EndpointSlice from the local cluster instead of copying the
Service selectors when using the MCS-API controller
([cilium/cilium#38596](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38596),
[@&#8203;MrFreezeex](https://redirect.github.com/MrFreezeex))
- **🌐 KVStoreMesh Optimization**: Cross-cluster state distribution is
optimized by only synchronizing identities keyed by ID, not by value
([cilium/cilium#36471](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36471),
[@&#8203;HadrienPatte](https://redirect.github.com/HadrienPatte))
- **🧠 Egress Gateway Processing**: Egress gateway policy processing is
significantly improved when matching a large number of pods
([cilium/cilium#37714](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37714),
[@&#8203;giorio94](https://redirect.github.com/giorio94))
- **🗑️ Optimized Garbage Collection for Connection Tracking**: Cilium
leverages batched iterators for CTMap GC
([cilium/cilium#36288](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36288),
[@&#8203;tommyp1ckles](https://redirect.github.com/tommyp1ckles))

#### ⚙️ Operations

- **📈 API Server Connections at Scale**: Improve kube-apiserver
connections behavior at scale through failover and setting better jitter
and backoff configurations
([cilium/cilium#37601](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37601),
[@&#8203;aditighag](https://redirect.github.com/aditighag);
[cilium/cilium#38031](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38031),
[@&#8203;orange30](https://redirect.github.com/orange30);
[cilium/cilium#36648](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36648),
[@&#8203;wedaly](https://redirect.github.com/wedaly))
- **🔄 ConfigMap Synchronization**: New option to automatically
synchronize ConfigMap changes into the agent and report metrics for when
the effective configuration is different from the desired configuration
([cilium/cilium#36510](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36510),
[@&#8203;ovidiutirla](https://redirect.github.com/ovidiutirla))
- **🎓 CRD Promotion to Stable**: Promote **CiliumCIDRGroup**,
**CiliumLoadBalancerIPPool** and all **BGP** CRDs to stable API
([cilium/cilium#38940](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38940),
[@&#8203;christarazi](https://redirect.github.com/christarazi);
[cilium/cilium#39090](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39090),
[@&#8203;pippolo84](https://redirect.github.com/pippolo84);
[cilium/cilium#37765](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37765),
[@&#8203;rastislavs](https://redirect.github.com/rastislavs))
- **⛔ Node Taints Handling**: The cilium-operator Deployment uses a new
default set of taints which avoids deploying to a drained node
([cilium/cilium#40137](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40137),
[@&#8203;Murat](https://redirect.github.com/Murat) Parlakisik)
- **:wood: Migrate to Slog**: Cilium now uses slog as log library for
all components
([cilium/cilium#39664](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39664),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- **🔧 Cilium dependencies** were updated to Kubernetes v1.33, Envoy
v1.34, LLVM 19.1, and CNI v1.1
([cilium/cilium#39124](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39124),
[cilium/cilium#40175](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40175),
[cilium/cilium#39632](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39632),
[@&#8203;sayboras](https://redirect.github.com/sayboras);
[cilium/cilium#38868](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38868),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed))
- **🐧 Minimum Linux Requirements**: The minimum kernel version for this
release series is Linux v5.10 or similar, such as RHEL 8.6
([cilium/cilium#38308](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38308),
[@&#8203;julianwiedmann](https://redirect.github.com/julianwiedmann))

#### 🕸️ Service Mesh & Gateway API

- **⛩️ Gateway API v1.3.0**: Gateway API support is bumped to v1.3.0
([cilium/cilium#39590](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39590),
[@&#8203;sayboras](https://redirect.github.com/sayboras))
- **🔗 Improved GatewayClass Configuration**: The new
CiliumGatewayClassConfig object adds service type validation allows the
configuration of extra settings on a per-GatewayClass level:
LoadBalancerSourceRangesPolicy, ParametersRef fields. This allows Cilium
to reconcile multiple GatewayClasses with different configurations
([cilium/cilium#37792](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37792),
[cilium/cilium#37402](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37402),
[cilium/cilium#40138](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40138),
[@&#8203;sayboras](https://redirect.github.com/sayboras))
- **🚏 Multiple HTTPRoutes**: GAMMA reconciler now supports attaching
multiple HTTPRoutes to the same Service
([cilium/cilium#39922](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39922),
[@&#8203;youngnick](https://redirect.github.com/youngnick))
- **🪄 Route Changes Reconciliation**: Reconcile Gateway API based on all
changes to routes. This allows label updates to trigger reconciliation
correctly, amongst other things
([cilium/cilium#37798](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37798),
[@&#8203;sayboras](https://redirect.github.com/sayboras))

#### 🏷️ IP Address Management

- **☁️ AWS Prefix Delegation**: Prefix delegation on AWS bare metal
instances is now supported natively in Cilium's AWS ENI IPAM mode
([cilium/cilium#39678](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39678),
[@&#8203;41ks](https://redirect.github.com/41ks))
- **🏬 Multi-Pool IPAM with KVStore**: Add support for Multi-Pool IPAM in
external KVstore mode
([cilium/cilium#39638](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39638),
[@&#8203;pippolo84](https://redirect.github.com/pippolo84))
- **🔐 Multi-Pool IPAM with IPSec**: Add support for Multi-Pool IPAM mode
with IPSec transparent encryption in tunnel routing mode
([cilium/cilium#39442](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39442),
[@&#8203;pippolo84](https://redirect.github.com/pippolo84))
- **↪️ Multi-Pool Tunnel Routing**: Add support for tunnel routing in
multi-pool IPAM mode
([cilium/cilium#38483](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38483),
[@&#8203;pippolo84](https://redirect.github.com/pippolo84))

#### 🛣️ BGP

- **📇 Route Aggregation**: Add support for BGP route aggregation in the
control plane
([cilium/cilium#37275](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37275),
[@&#8203;romanspb80](https://redirect.github.com/romanspb80))
- **🎯 Overlapping Selector Matches**: Support overlapping selector
matches in **CiliumBGPAdvertisement** resources
([cilium/cilium#36414](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36414),
[@&#8203;dswaffordcw](https://redirect.github.com/dswaffordcw))
- **🆔 New Router ID generation modes**: Generate router-id based on MAC
addresses, or from an IP address pool
([cilium/cilium#36451](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36451),
[@&#8203;yushoyamaguchi](https://redirect.github.com/yushoyamaguchi);
[cilium/cilium#38300](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38300),
[@&#8203;liyihuang](https://redirect.github.com/liyihuang))

#### 🧑‍💻 Development Experience

- **🧪 Test attribution**: Identify owners of test in GitHub workflow
results to make it easier to connect with other developers on tricky
problems
([cilium/cilium#37027](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37027),
[@&#8203;Joe](https://redirect.github.com/Joe) Stringer)
- **🛏️ Policy REST API**: The Cilium policy API exposed over a local
unix socket is deprecated. The other mechanisms to configure policy via
Kubernetes resources or the local filesystem are preferred
([cilium/cilium#40212](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40212),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed))
- **🏗️ Feature Deprecation**: Deprecate underused features like Custom
Calls, Recorder API and External Workloads
([cilium/cilium#38480](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38480),
[cilium/cilium#39642](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39642),
[cilium/cilium#37418](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37418),
[@&#8203;brb](https://redirect.github.com/brb))

#### 🏢 Community

- **❤️ Production Case Studies**: Many end-users have stepped forward to
tell their stories running Cilium in production. If your company wants
to submit their case studies let us know. We would love to hear your
feedback!
- [ByteDance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKPW67D7X10), [Canopus
Networks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXl9xuIxylY), [Corner
Banca](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVPKSefazl4), [DB
Schenker](https://www.cncf.io/case-studies/db-schenker/),
[eBay](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEa4KFf5FzY),
[ECCO](https://www.cncf.io/case-studies/ecco/),
[G-Research](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjSFN34dROQ), [Social
Network
Company](https://cilium.io/blog/2025/04/15/tetragon-social-networking-user-story/),
and [Preferred Networks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7_I4zu6f_M)
- **🇬🇧 London Events**: The community gathered at
[CiliumCon](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/co-located-events/ciliumcon/)
and the [Cilium Developer
Summit](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/dev-summits/tree/main/2025-EU)
in London
- **🇺🇸 Atlanta Events**: Meet us at the upcoming
[CiliumCon](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/co-located-events/ciliumcon/)
and Cilium Developers Summit in Atlanta, Georgia
- **👥 SIG Community Meetings**: [SIG
Community](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/community/tree/main/sig-community)
now meets every first and third Thursday to foster, grow, and sustain
the Cilium open source community

#### 📔 Full CHANGELOG

- Full CHANGELOG.md can be found
[here](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/blob/v1.18.0/CHANGELOG.md).

And finally, we would like to thank you to all contributors of Cilium
that helped directly and indirectly with the project. The success of
Cilium could not happen without all of you. ❤️ :people\_holding\_hands:
❤️

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We are excited to announce the **[Cilium
1.18.0](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.18.0)**
release!

A total of **3298 new commits** have been contributed to this release by
a growing community of over **955 developers** and over **22,000 GitHub
stars**! ⭐

To keep up to date with all the latest Cilium releases, see
[Announcements](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/discussions/categories/announcements)

Here's what's new in
[v1.18.0](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.18.0):

#### 🚠 Networking

- **⚖️ Load Balancing Redesign**: The service load-balancing
control-plane in the Cilium agent has been redesigned to reduce memory
usage and improve future extensibility of load-balancing features
([cilium/cilium#38469](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38469),
[@&#8203;joamaki](https://redirect.github.com/joamaki))
- **🔌 Virtual Network Devices**: Added support for new virtual network
device configurations such as VXLAN in IPsec (VinE) and IPIP tunnels
([cilium/cilium#37723](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37723),
[@&#8203;ldelossa](https://redirect.github.com/ldelossa);
[cilium/cilium#37346](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37346),
[@&#8203;gyutaeb](https://redirect.github.com/gyutaeb))
- **Ⓜ️ Multiple Egress Gateways**: Egress Gateways policies can now
direct traffic towards multiple gateway nodes
([cilium/cilium#39304](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39304),
[@&#8203;carlos-abad](https://redirect.github.com/carlos-abad))
- **🚦 Ingress Rate Limiting**: The bandwidth manager now supports
ingress rate limiting
([cilium/cilium#36351](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36351),
[@&#8203;l1b0k](https://redirect.github.com/l1b0k))
- **📢 Multi-Device L2 Announcements**: The L2 pod announcement feature
now supports multiple devices
([cilium/cilium#38198](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38198),
[@&#8203;dylandreimerink](https://redirect.github.com/dylandreimerink))
- **🏢 Neighbor Subsystem Rework**: The neighbor subsystem was made more
resilient through a new system that reconciles desired neighbor entries
with the kernel state
([cilium/cilium#39987](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39987),
[@&#8203;dylandreimerink](https://redirect.github.com/dylandreimerink))

#### 🌐 IPv6

- **🚇 Tunneling Underlay**: The tunneling datapath mode now supports
using an IPv6 network underlay, including when configured with IPsec
transparent encryption
([cilium/cilium#38296](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38296),
[cilium/cilium#39497](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39497),
[@&#8203;pchaigno](https://redirect.github.com/pchaigno))
- **💬 Kube Proxy Replacement**: Cilium now implements service
translation when running on an IPv6 underlay
([cilium/cilium#39074](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39074),
[@&#8203;pchaigno](https://redirect.github.com/pchaigno))
- **📋 Delegated IPAM**: When delegating IP address management to a third
party plugin, Cilium now configures IPv6 routes for connectivity if the
plugin supports IPv6
([cilium/cilium#38249](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38249),
[@&#8203;caorui-io](https://redirect.github.com/caorui-io),
[@&#8203;kadevu](https://redirect.github.com/kadevu))
- **📦 IP Fragment Support**: Cilium now processes ordered IPv6 fragments
to apply policy and routing functionality
([cilium/cilium#38110](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38110),
[@&#8203;gentoo-root](https://redirect.github.com/gentoo-root))
- **🚪 Egress gateway policies** can now match IPv6 address ranges
([cilium/cilium#38452](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38452),
[@&#8203;rgo3](https://redirect.github.com/rgo3))

#### 🛡️ Policy & Observability

- **🏷️ Policy Names in Hubble-CLI**: Show the names of (C)CNPs that
allowed or denied traffic when monitoring flows in Hubble
([cilium/cilium#39453](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39453),
[@&#8203;antonipp](https://redirect.github.com/antonipp))
- **📝 Policy Log Fields**: A new free-text log field is added to
policies, which is exposed in Hubble flows for easy correlation and
searching
([cilium/cilium#39902](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39902),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed))
- **🛰️ Encapsulated Traffic Decoding**: Hubble decodes encapsulated
traffic for deeper introspection into traffic flows
([cilium/cilium#37634](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37634),
[@&#8203;kaworu](https://redirect.github.com/kaworu))
- **🏰 ClusterMesh Policy Restriction**: A new option allows the
**cluster** entity to apply only to the local cluster in ClusterMesh
environment
([cilium/cilium#39338](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39338),
[@&#8203;MrFreezeex](https://redirect.github.com/MrFreezeex))
- **✨ Enhanced Policy Dashboard**: The Policy section of the Cilium
Grafana dashboard has been improved to show more relevant graphs,
including policy drops in both directions
([cilium/cilium#36492](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36492),
[cilium/cilium#37445](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37445),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed))

#### 🌅 Performance

- **📊 Scale Test Results**: Cilium implements policies and services up
to 45% faster in higher scale environments (Various;
[@&#8203;marseel](https://redirect.github.com/marseel),
[cilium/cilium#40227](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40227))
- **📦 Image Size Reduction**: Docker image sizes are reduced by 32% on
arm64 architecture images
([cilium/cilium#40005](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40005),
[@&#8203;marseel](https://redirect.github.com/marseel))
- **⚡ Improved Policy Performance**: The DNS proxy can process large
numbers of IPs faster, and the EndpointSelector match implementation has
been optimized
([cilium/cilium#39340](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39340),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed);
[cilium/cilium#40414](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40414),
[@&#8203;marseel](https://redirect.github.com/marseel))
- **🪞 EndpointSlice Mirroring for Multi-Cluster Services**: Clustermesh
mirrors EndpointSlice from the local cluster instead of copying the
Service selectors when using the MCS-API controller
([cilium/cilium#38596](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38596),
[@&#8203;MrFreezeex](https://redirect.github.com/MrFreezeex))
- **🌐 KVStoreMesh Optimization**: Cross-cluster state distribution is
optimized by only synchronizing identities keyed by ID, not by value
([cilium/cilium#36471](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36471),
[@&#8203;HadrienPatte](https://redirect.github.com/HadrienPatte))
- **🧠 Egress Gateway Processing**: Egress gateway policy processing is
significantly improved when matching a large number of pods
([cilium/cilium#37714](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37714),
[@&#8203;giorio94](https://redirect.github.com/giorio94))
- **🗑️ Optimized Garbage Collection for Connection Tracking**: Cilium
leverages batched iterators for CTMap GC
([cilium/cilium#36288](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36288),
[@&#8203;tommyp1ckles](https://redirect.github.com/tommyp1ckles))

#### ⚙️ Operations

- **📈 API Server Connections at Scale**: Improve kube-apiserver
connections behavior at scale through failover and setting better jitter
and backoff configurations
([cilium/cilium#37601](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37601),
[@&#8203;aditighag](https://redirect.github.com/aditighag);
[cilium/cilium#38031](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38031),
[@&#8203;orange30](https://redirect.github.com/orange30);
[cilium/cilium#36648](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36648),
[@&#8203;wedaly](https://redirect.github.com/wedaly))
- **🔄 ConfigMap Synchronization**: New option to automatically
synchronize ConfigMap changes into the agent and report metrics for when
the effective configuration is different from the desired configuration
([cilium/cilium#36510](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36510),
[@&#8203;ovidiutirla](https://redirect.github.com/ovidiutirla))
- **🎓 CRD Promotion to Stable**: Promote **CiliumCIDRGroup**,
**CiliumLoadBalancerIPPool** and all **BGP** CRDs to stable API
([cilium/cilium#38940](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38940),
[@&#8203;christarazi](https://redirect.github.com/christarazi);
[cilium/cilium#39090](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39090),
[@&#8203;pippolo84](https://redirect.github.com/pippolo84);
[cilium/cilium#37765](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37765),
[@&#8203;rastislavs](https://redirect.github.com/rastislavs))
- **⛔ Node Taints Handling**: The cilium-operator Deployment uses a new
default set of taints which avoids deploying to a drained node
([cilium/cilium#40137](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40137),
[@&#8203;Murat](https://redirect.github.com/Murat) Parlakisik)
- **:wood: Migrate to Slog**: Cilium now uses slog as log library for
all components
([cilium/cilium#39664](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39664),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- **🔧 Cilium dependencies** were updated to Kubernetes v1.33, Envoy
v1.34, LLVM 19.1, and CNI v1.1
([cilium/cilium#39124](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39124),
[cilium/cilium#40175](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40175),
[cilium/cilium#39632](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39632),
[@&#8203;sayboras](https://redirect.github.com/sayboras);
[cilium/cilium#38868](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38868),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed))
- **🐧 Minimum Linux Requirements**: The minimum kernel version for this
release series is Linux v5.10 or similar, such as RHEL 8.6
([cilium/cilium#38308](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38308),
[@&#8203;julianwiedmann](https://redirect.github.com/julianwiedmann))

#### 🕸️ Service Mesh & Gateway API

- **⛩️ Gateway API v1.3.0**: Gateway API support is bumped to v1.3.0
([cilium/cilium#39590](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39590),
[@&#8203;sayboras](https://redirect.github.com/sayboras))
- **🔗 Improved GatewayClass Configuration**: The new
CiliumGatewayClassConfig object adds service type validation allows the
configuration of extra settings on a per-GatewayClass level:
LoadBalancerSourceRangesPolicy, ParametersRef fields. This allows Cilium
to reconcile multiple GatewayClasses with different configurations
([cilium/cilium#37792](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37792),
[cilium/cilium#37402](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37402),
[cilium/cilium#40138](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40138),
[@&#8203;sayboras](https://redirect.github.com/sayboras))
- **🚏 Multiple HTTPRoutes**: GAMMA reconciler now supports attaching
multiple HTTPRoutes to the same Service
([cilium/cilium#39922](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39922),
[@&#8203;youngnick](https://redirect.github.com/youngnick))
- **🪄 Route Changes Reconciliation**: Reconcile Gateway API based on all
changes to routes. This allows label updates to trigger reconciliation
correctly, amongst other things
([cilium/cilium#37798](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37798),
[@&#8203;sayboras](https://redirect.github.com/sayboras))

#### 🏷️ IP Address Management

- **☁️ AWS Prefix Delegation**: Prefix delegation on AWS bare metal
instances is now supported natively in Cilium's AWS ENI IPAM mode
([cilium/cilium#39678](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39678),
[@&#8203;41ks](https://redirect.github.com/41ks))
- **🏬 Multi-Pool IPAM with KVStore**: Add support for Multi-Pool IPAM in
external KVstore mode
([cilium/cilium#39638](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39638),
[@&#8203;pippolo84](https://redirect.github.com/pippolo84))
- **🔐 Multi-Pool IPAM with IPSec**: Add support for Multi-Pool IPAM mode
with IPSec transparent encryption in tunnel routing mode
([cilium/cilium#39442](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39442),
[@&#8203;pippolo84](https://redirect.github.com/pippolo84))
- **↪️ Multi-Pool Tunnel Routing**: Add support for tunnel routing in
multi-pool IPAM mode
([cilium/cilium#38483](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38483),
[@&#8203;pippolo84](https://redirect.github.com/pippolo84))

#### 🛣️ BGP

- **📇 Route Aggregation**: Add support for BGP route aggregation in the
control plane
([cilium/cilium#37275](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37275),
[@&#8203;romanspb80](https://redirect.github.com/romanspb80))
- **🎯 Overlapping Selector Matches**: Support overlapping selector
matches in **CiliumBGPAdvertisement** resources
([cilium/cilium#36414](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36414),
[@&#8203;dswaffordcw](https://redirect.github.com/dswaffordcw))
- **🆔 New Router ID generation modes**: Generate router-id based on MAC
addresses, or from an IP address pool
([cilium/cilium#36451](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36451),
[@&#8203;yushoyamaguchi](https://redirect.github.com/yushoyamaguchi);
[cilium/cilium#38300](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38300),
[@&#8203;liyihuang](https://redirect.github.com/liyihuang))

#### 🧑‍💻 Development Experience

- **🧪 Test attribution**: Identify owners of test in GitHub workflow
results to make it easier to connect with other developers on tricky
problems
([cilium/cilium#37027](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37027),
[@&#8203;Joe](https://redirect.github.com/Joe) Stringer)
- **🛏️ Policy REST API**: The Cilium policy API exposed over a local
unix socket is deprecated. The other mechanisms to configure policy via
Kubernetes resources or the local filesystem are preferred
([cilium/cilium#40212](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40212),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed))
- **🏗️ Feature Deprecation**: Deprecate underused features like Custom
Calls, Recorder API and External Workloads
([cilium/cilium#38480](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38480),
[cilium/cilium#39642](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39642),
[cilium/cilium#37418](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37418),
[@&#8203;brb](https://redirect.github.com/brb))

#### 🏢 Community

- **❤️ Production Case Studies**: Many end-users have stepped forward to
tell their stories running Cilium in production. If your company wants
to submit their case studies let us know. We would love to hear your
feedback!
- [ByteDance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKPW67D7X10), [Canopus
Networks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXl9xuIxylY), [Corner
Banca](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVPKSefazl4), [DB
Schenker](https://www.cncf.io/case-studies/db-schenker/),
[eBay](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEa4KFf5FzY),
[ECCO](https://www.cncf.io/case-studies/ecco/),
[G-Research](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjSFN34dROQ), [Social
Network
Company](https://cilium.io/blog/2025/04/15/tetragon-social-networking-user-story/),
and [Preferred Networks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7_I4zu6f_M)
- **🇬🇧 London Events**: The community gathered at
[CiliumCon](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/co-located-events/ciliumcon/)
and the [Cilium Developer
Summit](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/dev-summits/tree/main/2025-EU)
in London
- **🇺🇸 Atlanta Events**: Meet us at the upcoming
[CiliumCon](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/co-located-events/ciliumcon/)
and Cilium Developers Summit in Atlanta, Georgia
- **👥 SIG Community Meetings**: [SIG
Community](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/community/tree/main/sig-community)
now meets every first and third Thursday to foster, grow, and sustain
the Cilium open source community

#### 📔 Full CHANGELOG

- Full CHANGELOG.md can be found
[here](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/blob/v1.18.0/CHANGELOG.md).

And finally, we would like to thank you to all contributors of Cilium
that helped directly and indirectly with the project. The success of
Cilium could not happen without all of you. ❤️ :people\_holding\_hands:
❤️

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### [`v1.18.0`](https://github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.18.0): 1.18.0

[Compare Source](cilium/cilium@1.17.6...1.18.0)

We are excited to announce the **[Cilium 1.18.0](https://github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.18.0)** release!

A total of **3298 new commits** have been contributed to this release by a growing community of over **955 developers** and over **22,000 GitHub stars**! ⭐

To keep up to date with all the latest Cilium releases, see [Announcements](https://github.com/cilium/cilium/discussions/categories/announcements)

Here's what's new in [v1.18.0](https://github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.18.0):

#### 🚠 Networking

- **⚖️ Load Balancing Redesign**: The service load-balancing control-plane in the Cilium agent has been redesigned to reduce memory usage and improve future extensibility of load-balancing features ([cilium/cilium#38469](cilium/cilium#38469), [@&#8203;joamaki](https://github.com/joamaki))
- **🔌 Virtual Network Devices**: Added support for new virtual network device configurations such as VXLAN in IPsec (VinE) and IPIP tunnels ([cilium/cilium#37723](cilium/cilium#37723), [@&#8203;ldelossa](https://github.com/ldelossa); [cilium/cilium#37346](cilium/cilium#37346), [@&#8203;gyutaeb](https://github.com/gyutaeb))
- **Ⓜ️ Multiple Egress Gateways**: Egress Gateways policies can now direct traffic towards multiple gateway nodes ([cilium/cilium#39304](cilium/cilium#39304), [@&#8203;carlos-abad](https://github.com/carlos-abad))
- **🚦 Ingress Rate Limiting**: The bandwidth manager now supports ingress rate limiting ([cilium/cilium#36351](cilium/cilium#36351), [@&#8203;l1b0k](https://github.com/l1b0k))
- **📢 Multi-Device L2 Announcements**: The L2 pod announcement feature now supports multiple devices ([cilium/cilium#38198](cilium/cilium#38198), [@&#8203;dylandreimerink](https://github.com/dylandreimerink))
- **🏢 Neighbor Subsystem Rework**: The neighbor subsystem was made more resilient through a new system that reconciles desired neighbor entries with the kernel state ([cilium/cilium#39987](cilium/cilium#39987), [@&#8203;dylandreimerink](https://github.com/dylandreimerink))

#### 🌐 IPv6

- **🚇 Tunneling Underlay**: The tunneling datapath mode now supports using an IPv6 network underlay, including when configured with IPsec transparent encryption ([cilium/cilium#38296](cilium/cilium#38296), [cilium/cilium#39497](cilium/cilium#39497), [@&#8203;pchaigno](https://github.com/pchaigno))
- **💬 Kube Proxy Replacement**: Cilium now implements service translation when running on an IPv6 underlay ([cilium/cilium#39074](cilium/cilium#39074), [@&#8203;pchaigno](https://github.com/pchaigno))
- **📋 Delegated IPAM**: When delegating IP address management to a third party plugin, Cilium now configures IPv6 routes for connectivity if the plugin supports IPv6 ([cilium/cilium#38249](cilium/cilium#38249), [@&#8203;caorui-io](https://github.com/caorui-io), [@&#8203;kadevu](https://github.com/kadevu))
- **📦 IP Fragment Support**: Cilium now processes ordered IPv6 fragments to apply policy and routing functionality ([cilium/cilium#38110](cilium/cilium#38110), [@&#8203;gentoo-root](https://github.com/gentoo-root))
- **🚪 Egress gateway policies** can now match IPv6 address ranges ([cilium/cilium#38452](cilium/cilium#38452), [@&#8203;rgo3](https://github.com/rgo3))

#### 🛡️ Policy & Observability

- **🏷️ Policy Names in Hubble-CLI**: Show the names of (C)CNPs that allowed or denied traffic when monitoring flows in Hubble ([cilium/cilium#39453](cilium/cilium#39453), [@&#8203;antonipp](https://github.com/antonipp))
- **📝 Policy Log Fields**: A new free-text log field is added to policies, which is exposed in Hubble flows for easy correlation and searching ([cilium/cilium#39902](cilium/cilium#39902), [@&#8203;squeed](https://github.com/squeed))
- **🛰️ Encapsulated Traffic Decoding**: Hubble decodes encapsulated traffic for deeper introspection into traffic flows ([cilium/cilium#37634](cilium/cilium#37634), [@&#8203;kaworu](https://github.com/kaworu))
- **🏰 ClusterMesh Policy Restriction**: A new option allows the **cluster** entity to apply only to the local cluster in ClusterMesh environment ([cilium/cilium#39338](cilium/cilium#39338), [@&#8203;MrFreezeex](https://github.com/MrFreezeex))
- **✨ Enhanced Policy Dashboard**: The Policy section of the Cilium Grafana dashboard has been improved to show more relevant graphs, including policy drops in both directions ([cilium/cilium#36492](cilium/cilium#36492), [cilium/cilium#37445](cilium/cilium#37445), [@&#8203;squeed](https://github.com/squeed))

#### 🌅 Performance

- **📊 Scale Test Results**: Cilium implements policies and services up to 45% faster in higher scale environments (Various; [@&#8203;marseel](https://github.com/marseel), [cilium/cilium#40227](cilium/cilium#40227))
- **📦 Image Size Reduction**: Docker image sizes are reduced by 32% on arm64 architecture images ([cilium/cilium#40005](cilium/cilium#40005), [@&#8203;marseel](https://github.com/marseel))
- **⚡ Improved Policy Performance**: The DNS proxy can process large numbers of IPs faster, and the EndpointSelector match implementation has been optimized ([cilium/cilium#39340](cilium/cilium#39340), [@&#8203;squeed](https://github.com/squeed); [cilium/cilium#40414](cilium/cilium#40414), [@&#8203;marseel](https://github.com/marseel))
- **🪞 EndpointSlice Mirroring for Multi-Cluster Services**: Clustermesh mirrors EndpointSlice from the local cluster instead of copying the Service selectors when using the MCS-API controller ([cilium/cilium#38596](cilium/cilium#38596), [@&#8203;MrFreezeex](https://github.com/MrFreezeex))
- **🌐 KVStoreMesh Optimization**: Cross-cluster state distribution is optimized by only synchronizing identities keyed by ID, not by value ([cilium/cilium#36471](cilium/cilium#36471), [@&#8203;HadrienPatte](https://github.com/HadrienPatte))
- **🧠 Egress Gateway Processing**: Egress gateway policy processing is significantly improved when matching a large number of pods ([cilium/cilium#37714](cilium/cilium#37714), [@&#8203;giorio94](https://github.com/giorio94))
- **🗑️ Optimized Garbage Collection for Connection Tracking**: Cilium leverages batched iterators for CTMap GC ([cilium/cilium#36288](cilium/cilium#36288), [@&#8203;tommyp1ckles](https://github.com/tommyp1ckles))

#### ⚙️ Operations

- **📈 API Server Connections at Scale**: Improve kube-apiserver connections behavior at scale through failover and setting better jitter and backoff configurations ([cilium/cilium#37601](cilium/cilium#37601), [@&#8203;aditighag](https://github.com/aditighag); [cilium/cilium#38031](cilium/cilium#38031), [@&#8203;orange30](https://github.com/orange30); [cilium/cilium#36648](cilium/cilium#36648), [@&#8203;wedaly](https://github.com/wedaly))
- **🔄 ConfigMap Synchronization**: New option to automatically synchronize ConfigMap changes into the agent and report metrics for when the effective configuration is different from the desired configuration ([cilium/cilium#36510](cilium/cilium#36510), [@&#8203;ovidiutirla](https://github.com/ovidiutirla))
- **🎓 CRD Promotion to Stable**: Promote **CiliumCIDRGroup**, **CiliumLoadBalancerIPPool** and all **BGP** CRDs to stable API ([cilium/cilium#38940](cilium/cilium#38940), [@&#8203;christarazi](https://github.com/christarazi); [cilium/cilium#39090](cilium/cilium#39090), [@&#8203;pippolo84](https://github.com/pippolo84); [cilium/cilium#37765](cilium/cilium#37765), [@&#8203;rastislavs](https://github.com/rastislavs))
- **⛔ Node Taints Handling**: The cilium-operator Deployment uses a new default set of taints which avoids deploying to a drained node ([cilium/cilium#40137](cilium/cilium#40137), [@&#8203;Murat](https://github.com/Murat) Parlakisik)
- **:wood: Migrate to Slog**: Cilium now uses slog as log library for all components ([cilium/cilium#39664](cilium/cilium#39664), [@&#8203;aanm](https://github.com/aanm))
- **🔧 Cilium dependencies** were updated to Kubernetes v1.33, Envoy v1.34, LLVM 19.1, and CNI v1.1 ([cilium/cilium#39124](cilium/cilium#39124), [cilium/cilium#40175](cilium/cilium#40175), [cilium/cilium#39632](cilium/cilium#39632), [@&#8203;sayboras](https://github.com/sayboras); [cilium/cilium#38868](cilium/cilium#38868), [@&#8203;squeed](https://github.com/squeed))
- **🐧 Minimum Linux Requirements**: The minimum kernel version for this release series is Linux v5.10 or similar, such as RHEL 8.6 ([cilium/cilium#38308](cilium/cilium#38308), [@&#8203;julianwiedmann](https://github.com/julianwiedmann))

#### 🕸️ Service Mesh & Gateway API

- **⛩️ Gateway API v1.3.0**: Gateway API support is bumped to v1.3.0 ([cilium/cilium#39590](cilium/cilium#39590), [@&#8203;sayboras](https://github.com/sayboras))
- **🔗 Improved GatewayClass Configuration**: The new CiliumGatewayClassConfig object adds service type validation allows the configuration of extra settings on a per-GatewayClass level: LoadBalancerSourceRangesPolicy, ParametersRef fields. This allows Cilium to reconcile multiple GatewayClasses with different configurations ([cilium/cilium#37792](cilium/cilium#37792), [cilium/cilium#37402](cilium/cilium#37402), [cilium/cilium#40138](cilium/cilium#40138), [@&#8203;sayboras](https://github.com/sayboras))
- **🚏 Multiple HTTPRoutes**: GAMMA reconciler now supports attaching multiple HTTPRoutes to the same Service ([cilium/cilium#39922](cilium/cilium#39922), [@&#8203;youngnick](https://github.com/youngnick))
- **🪄 Route Changes Reconciliation**: Reconcile Gateway API based on all changes to routes. This allows label updates to trigger reconciliation correctly, amongst other things ([cilium/cilium#37798](cilium/cilium#37798), [@&#8203;sayboras](https://github.com/sayboras))

#### 🏷️ IP Address Management

- **☁️ AWS Prefix Delegation**: Prefix delegation on AWS bare metal instances is now supported natively in Cilium's AWS ENI IPAM mode ([cilium/cilium#39678](cilium/cilium#39678), [@&#8203;41ks](https://github.com/41ks))
- **🏬 Multi-Pool IPAM with KVStore**: Add support for Multi-Pool IPAM in external KVstore mode ([cilium/cilium#39638](cilium/cilium#39638), [@&#8203;pippolo84](https://github.com/pippolo84))
- **🔐 Multi-Pool IPAM with IPSec**: Add support for Multi-Pool IPAM mode with IPSec transparent encryption in tunnel routing mode ([cilium/cilium#39442](cilium/cilium#39442), [@&#8203;pippolo84](https://github.com/pippolo84))
- **↪️ Multi-Pool Tunnel Routing**: Add support for tunnel routing in multi-pool IPAM mode ([cilium/cilium#38483](cilium/cilium#38483), [@&#8203;pippolo84](https://github.com/pippolo84))

#### 🛣️ BGP

- **📇 Route Aggregation**: Add support for BGP route aggregation in the control plane ([cilium/cilium#37275](cilium/cilium#37275), [@&#8203;romanspb80](https://github.com/romanspb80))
- **🎯 Overlapping Selector Matches**: Support overlapping selector matches in **CiliumBGPAdvertisement** resources ([cilium/cilium#36414](cilium/cilium#36414), [@&#8203;dswaffordcw](https://github.com/dswaffordcw))
- **🆔 New Router ID generation modes**: Generate router-id based on MAC addresses, or from an IP address pool ([cilium/cilium#36451](cilium/cilium#36451), [@&#8203;yushoyamaguchi](https://github.com/yushoyamaguchi); [cilium/cilium#38300](cilium/cilium#38300), [@&#8203;liyihuang](https://github.com/liyihuang))

#### 🧑‍💻 Development Experience

- **🧪 Test attribution**: Identify owners of test in GitHub workflow results to make it easier to connect with other developers on tricky problems ([cilium/cilium#37027](cilium/cilium#37027), [@&#8203;Joe](https://github.com/Joe) Stringer)
- **🛏️ Policy REST API**: The Cilium policy API exposed over a local unix socket is deprecated. The other mechanisms to configure policy via Kubernetes resources or the local filesystem are preferred ([cilium/cilium#40212](cilium/cilium#40212), [@&#8203;squeed](https://github.com/squeed))
- **🏗️ Feature Deprecation**: Deprecate underused features like Custom Calls, Recorder API and External Workloads ([cilium/cilium#38480](cilium/cilium#38480), [cilium/cilium#39642](cilium/cilium#39642), [cilium/cilium#37418](cilium/cilium#37418), [@&#8203;brb](https://github.com/brb))

#### 🏢 Community

- **❤️ Production Case Studies**: Many end-users have stepped forward to tell their stories running Cilium in production. If your company wants to submit their case studies let us know. We would love to hear your feedback!
  - [ByteDance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKPW67D7X10), [Canopus Networks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXl9xuIxylY), [Corner Banca](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVPKSefazl4), [DB Schenker](https://www.cncf.io/case-studies/db-schenker/), [eBay](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEa4KFf5FzY), [ECCO](https://www.cncf.io/case-studies/ecco/), [G-Research](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjSFN34dROQ), [Social Network Company](https://cilium.io/blog/2025/04/15/tetragon-social-networking-user-story/), and [Preferred Networks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7_I4zu6f_M)
- **🇬🇧 London Events**: The community gathered at [CiliumCon](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/co-located-events/ciliumcon/) and the [Cilium Developer Summit](https://github.com/cilium/dev-summits/tree/main/2025-EU) in London
- **🇺🇸 Atlanta Events**: Meet us at the upcoming [CiliumCon](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/co-located-events/ciliumcon/) and Cilium Developers Summit in Atlanta, Georgia
- **👥 SIG Community Meetings**: [SIG Community](https://github.com/cilium/community/tree/main/sig-community) now meets every first and third Thursday to foster, grow, and sustain the Cilium open source community

#### 📔 Full CHANGELOG

- Full CHANGELOG.md can be found [here](https://github.com/cilium/cilium/blob/v1.18.0/CHANGELOG.md).

And finally, we would like to thank you to all contributors of Cilium that helped directly and indirectly with the project. The success of Cilium could not happen without all of you. ❤️ :people\_holding\_hands:  ❤️

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###
[`v1.18.0`](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.18.0):
1.18.0

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release!

A total of **3298 new commits** have been contributed to this release by
a growing community of over **955 developers** and over **22,000 GitHub
stars**! ⭐

To keep up to date with all the latest Cilium releases, see
[Announcements](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/discussions/categories/announcements)

Here's what's new in
[v1.18.0](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.18.0):

#### 🚠 Networking

- **⚖️ Load Balancing Redesign**: The service load-balancing
control-plane in the Cilium agent has been redesigned to reduce memory
usage and improve future extensibility of load-balancing features
([cilium/cilium#38469](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38469),
[@&#8203;joamaki](https://redirect.github.com/joamaki))
- **🔌 Virtual Network Devices**: Added support for new virtual network
device configurations such as VXLAN in IPsec (VinE) and IPIP tunnels
([cilium/cilium#37723](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37723),
[@&#8203;ldelossa](https://redirect.github.com/ldelossa);
[cilium/cilium#37346](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37346),
[@&#8203;gyutaeb](https://redirect.github.com/gyutaeb))
- **Ⓜ️ Multiple Egress Gateways**: Egress Gateways policies can now
direct traffic towards multiple gateway nodes
([cilium/cilium#39304](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39304),
[@&#8203;carlos-abad](https://redirect.github.com/carlos-abad))
- **🚦 Ingress Rate Limiting**: The bandwidth manager now supports
ingress rate limiting
([cilium/cilium#36351](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36351),
[@&#8203;l1b0k](https://redirect.github.com/l1b0k))
- **📢 Multi-Device L2 Announcements**: The L2 pod announcement feature
now supports multiple devices
([cilium/cilium#38198](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38198),
[@&#8203;dylandreimerink](https://redirect.github.com/dylandreimerink))
- **🏢 Neighbor Subsystem Rework**: The neighbor subsystem was made more
resilient through a new system that reconciles desired neighbor entries
with the kernel state
([cilium/cilium#39987](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39987),
[@&#8203;dylandreimerink](https://redirect.github.com/dylandreimerink))

#### 🌐 IPv6

- **🚇 Tunneling Underlay**: The tunneling datapath mode now supports
using an IPv6 network underlay, including when configured with IPsec
transparent encryption
([cilium/cilium#38296](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38296),
[cilium/cilium#39497](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39497),
[@&#8203;pchaigno](https://redirect.github.com/pchaigno))
- **💬 Kube Proxy Replacement**: Cilium now implements service
translation when running on an IPv6 underlay
([cilium/cilium#39074](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39074),
[@&#8203;pchaigno](https://redirect.github.com/pchaigno))
- **📋 Delegated IPAM**: When delegating IP address management to a third
party plugin, Cilium now configures IPv6 routes for connectivity if the
plugin supports IPv6
([cilium/cilium#38249](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38249),
[@&#8203;caorui-io](https://redirect.github.com/caorui-io),
[@&#8203;kadevu](https://redirect.github.com/kadevu))
- **📦 IP Fragment Support**: Cilium now processes ordered IPv6 fragments
to apply policy and routing functionality
([cilium/cilium#38110](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38110),
[@&#8203;gentoo-root](https://redirect.github.com/gentoo-root))
- **🚪 Egress gateway policies** can now match IPv6 address ranges
([cilium/cilium#38452](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38452),
[@&#8203;rgo3](https://redirect.github.com/rgo3))

#### 🛡️ Policy & Observability

- **🏷️ Policy Names in Hubble-CLI**: Show the names of (C)CNPs that
allowed or denied traffic when monitoring flows in Hubble
([cilium/cilium#39453](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39453),
[@&#8203;antonipp](https://redirect.github.com/antonipp))
- **📝 Policy Log Fields**: A new free-text log field is added to
policies, which is exposed in Hubble flows for easy correlation and
searching
([cilium/cilium#39902](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39902),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed))
- **🛰️ Encapsulated Traffic Decoding**: Hubble decodes encapsulated
traffic for deeper introspection into traffic flows
([cilium/cilium#37634](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37634),
[@&#8203;kaworu](https://redirect.github.com/kaworu))
- **🏰 ClusterMesh Policy Restriction**: A new option allows the
**cluster** entity to apply only to the local cluster in ClusterMesh
environment
([cilium/cilium#39338](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39338),
[@&#8203;MrFreezeex](https://redirect.github.com/MrFreezeex))
- **✨ Enhanced Policy Dashboard**: The Policy section of the Cilium
Grafana dashboard has been improved to show more relevant graphs,
including policy drops in both directions
([cilium/cilium#36492](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36492),
[cilium/cilium#37445](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37445),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed))

#### 🌅 Performance

- **📊 Scale Test Results**: Cilium implements policies and services up
to 45% faster in higher scale environments (Various;
[@&#8203;marseel](https://redirect.github.com/marseel),
[cilium/cilium#40227](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40227))
- **📦 Image Size Reduction**: Docker image sizes are reduced by 32% on
arm64 architecture images
([cilium/cilium#40005](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40005),
[@&#8203;marseel](https://redirect.github.com/marseel))
- **⚡ Improved Policy Performance**: The DNS proxy can process large
numbers of IPs faster, and the EndpointSelector match implementation has
been optimized
([cilium/cilium#39340](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39340),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed);
[cilium/cilium#40414](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40414),
[@&#8203;marseel](https://redirect.github.com/marseel))
- **🪞 EndpointSlice Mirroring for Multi-Cluster Services**: Clustermesh
mirrors EndpointSlice from the local cluster instead of copying the
Service selectors when using the MCS-API controller
([cilium/cilium#38596](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38596),
[@&#8203;MrFreezeex](https://redirect.github.com/MrFreezeex))
- **🌐 KVStoreMesh Optimization**: Cross-cluster state distribution is
optimized by only synchronizing identities keyed by ID, not by value
([cilium/cilium#36471](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36471),
[@&#8203;HadrienPatte](https://redirect.github.com/HadrienPatte))
- **🧠 Egress Gateway Processing**: Egress gateway policy processing is
significantly improved when matching a large number of pods
([cilium/cilium#37714](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37714),
[@&#8203;giorio94](https://redirect.github.com/giorio94))
- **🗑️ Optimized Garbage Collection for Connection Tracking**: Cilium
leverages batched iterators for CTMap GC
([cilium/cilium#36288](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36288),
[@&#8203;tommyp1ckles](https://redirect.github.com/tommyp1ckles))

#### ⚙️ Operations

- **📈 API Server Connections at Scale**: Improve kube-apiserver
connections behavior at scale through failover and setting better jitter
and backoff configurations
([cilium/cilium#37601](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37601),
[@&#8203;aditighag](https://redirect.github.com/aditighag);
[cilium/cilium#38031](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38031),
[@&#8203;orange30](https://redirect.github.com/orange30);
[cilium/cilium#36648](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36648),
[@&#8203;wedaly](https://redirect.github.com/wedaly))
- **🔄 ConfigMap Synchronization**: New option to automatically
synchronize ConfigMap changes into the agent and report metrics for when
the effective configuration is different from the desired configuration
([cilium/cilium#36510](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36510),
[@&#8203;ovidiutirla](https://redirect.github.com/ovidiutirla))
- **🎓 CRD Promotion to Stable**: Promote **CiliumCIDRGroup**,
**CiliumLoadBalancerIPPool** and all **BGP** CRDs to stable API
([cilium/cilium#38940](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38940),
[@&#8203;christarazi](https://redirect.github.com/christarazi);
[cilium/cilium#39090](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39090),
[@&#8203;pippolo84](https://redirect.github.com/pippolo84);
[cilium/cilium#37765](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37765),
[@&#8203;rastislavs](https://redirect.github.com/rastislavs))
- **⛔ Node Taints Handling**: The cilium-operator Deployment uses a new
default set of taints which avoids deploying to a drained node
([cilium/cilium#40137](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40137),
[@&#8203;Murat](https://redirect.github.com/Murat) Parlakisik)
- **:wood: Migrate to Slog**: Cilium now uses slog as log library for
all components
([cilium/cilium#39664](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39664),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- **🔧 Cilium dependencies** were updated to Kubernetes v1.33, Envoy
v1.34, LLVM 19.1, and CNI v1.1
([cilium/cilium#39124](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39124),
[cilium/cilium#40175](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40175),
[cilium/cilium#39632](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39632),
[@&#8203;sayboras](https://redirect.github.com/sayboras);
[cilium/cilium#38868](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38868),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed))
- **🐧 Minimum Linux Requirements**: The minimum kernel version for this
release series is Linux v5.10 or similar, such as RHEL 8.6
([cilium/cilium#38308](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38308),
[@&#8203;julianwiedmann](https://redirect.github.com/julianwiedmann))

#### 🕸️ Service Mesh & Gateway API

- **⛩️ Gateway API v1.3.0**: Gateway API support is bumped to v1.3.0
([cilium/cilium#39590](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39590),
[@&#8203;sayboras](https://redirect.github.com/sayboras))
- **🔗 Improved GatewayClass Configuration**: The new
CiliumGatewayClassConfig object adds service type validation allows the
configuration of extra settings on a per-GatewayClass level:
LoadBalancerSourceRangesPolicy, ParametersRef fields. This allows Cilium
to reconcile multiple GatewayClasses with different configurations
([cilium/cilium#37792](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37792),
[cilium/cilium#37402](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37402),
[cilium/cilium#40138](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40138),
[@&#8203;sayboras](https://redirect.github.com/sayboras))
- **🚏 Multiple HTTPRoutes**: GAMMA reconciler now supports attaching
multiple HTTPRoutes to the same Service
([cilium/cilium#39922](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39922),
[@&#8203;youngnick](https://redirect.github.com/youngnick))
- **🪄 Route Changes Reconciliation**: Reconcile Gateway API based on all
changes to routes. This allows label updates to trigger reconciliation
correctly, amongst other things
([cilium/cilium#37798](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37798),
[@&#8203;sayboras](https://redirect.github.com/sayboras))

#### 🏷️ IP Address Management

- **☁️ AWS Prefix Delegation**: Prefix delegation on AWS bare metal
instances is now supported natively in Cilium's AWS ENI IPAM mode
([cilium/cilium#39678](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39678),
[@&#8203;41ks](https://redirect.github.com/41ks))
- **🏬 Multi-Pool IPAM with KVStore**: Add support for Multi-Pool IPAM in
external KVstore mode
([cilium/cilium#39638](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39638),
[@&#8203;pippolo84](https://redirect.github.com/pippolo84))
- **🔐 Multi-Pool IPAM with IPSec**: Add support for Multi-Pool IPAM mode
with IPSec transparent encryption in tunnel routing mode
([cilium/cilium#39442](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39442),
[@&#8203;pippolo84](https://redirect.github.com/pippolo84))
- **↪️ Multi-Pool Tunnel Routing**: Add support for tunnel routing in
multi-pool IPAM mode
([cilium/cilium#38483](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38483),
[@&#8203;pippolo84](https://redirect.github.com/pippolo84))

#### 🛣️ BGP

- **📇 Route Aggregation**: Add support for BGP route aggregation in the
control plane
([cilium/cilium#37275](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37275),
[@&#8203;romanspb80](https://redirect.github.com/romanspb80))
- **🎯 Overlapping Selector Matches**: Support overlapping selector
matches in **CiliumBGPAdvertisement** resources
([cilium/cilium#36414](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36414),
[@&#8203;dswaffordcw](https://redirect.github.com/dswaffordcw))
- **🆔 New Router ID generation modes**: Generate router-id based on MAC
addresses, or from an IP address pool
([cilium/cilium#36451](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36451),
[@&#8203;yushoyamaguchi](https://redirect.github.com/yushoyamaguchi);
[cilium/cilium#38300](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38300),
[@&#8203;liyihuang](https://redirect.github.com/liyihuang))

#### 🧑‍💻 Development Experience

- **🧪 Test attribution**: Identify owners of test in GitHub workflow
results to make it easier to connect with other developers on tricky
problems
([cilium/cilium#37027](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37027),
[@&#8203;Joe](https://redirect.github.com/Joe) Stringer)
- **🛏️ Policy REST API**: The Cilium policy API exposed over a local
unix socket is deprecated. The other mechanisms to configure policy via
Kubernetes resources or the local filesystem are preferred
([cilium/cilium#40212](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40212),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed))
- **🏗️ Feature Deprecation**: Deprecate underused features like Custom
Calls, Recorder API and External Workloads
([cilium/cilium#38480](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38480),
[cilium/cilium#39642](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39642),
[cilium/cilium#37418](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37418),
[@&#8203;brb](https://redirect.github.com/brb))

#### 🏢 Community

- **❤️ Production Case Studies**: Many end-users have stepped forward to
tell their stories running Cilium in production. If your company wants
to submit their case studies let us know. We would love to hear your
feedback!
- [ByteDance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKPW67D7X10), [Canopus
Networks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXl9xuIxylY), [Corner
Banca](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVPKSefazl4), [DB
Schenker](https://www.cncf.io/case-studies/db-schenker/),
[eBay](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEa4KFf5FzY),
[ECCO](https://www.cncf.io/case-studies/ecco/),
[G-Research](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjSFN34dROQ), [Social
Network
Company](https://cilium.io/blog/2025/04/15/tetragon-social-networking-user-story/),
and [Preferred Networks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7_I4zu6f_M)
- **🇬🇧 London Events**: The community gathered at
[CiliumCon](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/co-located-events/ciliumcon/)
and the [Cilium Developer
Summit](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/dev-summits/tree/main/2025-EU)
in London
- **🇺🇸 Atlanta Events**: Meet us at the upcoming
[CiliumCon](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/co-located-events/ciliumcon/)
and Cilium Developers Summit in Atlanta, Georgia
- **👥 SIG Community Meetings**: [SIG
Community](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/community/tree/main/sig-community)
now meets every first and third Thursday to foster, grow, and sustain
the Cilium open source community

#### 📔 Full CHANGELOG

- Full CHANGELOG.md can be found
[here](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/blob/v1.18.0/CHANGELOG.md).

And finally, we would like to thank you to all contributors of Cilium
that helped directly and indirectly with the project. The success of
Cilium could not happen without all of you. ❤️ :people\_holding\_hands:
❤️

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## Summary of Changes

**Minor Changes:**

- Add `kernel_version`, `endpoint_routes_enabled`, `strict_mode_enabled`
and `kubernetes_version` feature metrics. (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41078](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41078),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;41003](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41003),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- eni: improve logging and speed up ipam reconciliation in case of node
scale-downs (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40852](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40852),
[@&#8203;marseel](https://redirect.github.com/marseel))
- kvstore: Cilium Agent no longer fails health-check if operator is
unavailable (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40920](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40920),
[@&#8203;marseel](https://redirect.github.com/marseel))
- operator: CRDs are updated in series instead of in parallel now during
Cilium upgrades. This should lower the pressure on the k8s control plane
(Backport PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40322](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40322),
[@&#8203;marseel](https://redirect.github.com/marseel))

**Bugfixes:**

- Add missing safeguards to topology-aware routing: use all backends
when no suitable one matching the zone hints are found or a backend
exists without a zone hint.
([#&#8203;41116](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41116),
[@&#8203;joamaki](https://redirect.github.com/joamaki))
- aws/eni: Don't use subnet tags to filter ENIs for GC (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40656](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40656),
[@&#8203;HadrienPatte](https://redirect.github.com/HadrienPatte))
- clustermesh: fix regression possibly causing cross-cluster connections
disruption if the clustermesh-apiserver is restarted at the same time as
Cilium agents. (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40786](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40786),
[@&#8203;giorio94](https://redirect.github.com/giorio94))
- clustermesh: fix regression preventing global services with unnamed
ports from including remote backends (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40865](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40865),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40848](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40848),
[@&#8203;giorio94](https://redirect.github.com/giorio94))
- Fix bug where the presence of a label called "ingress" causes
incorrect assignment of identities to workloads, affecting policy
enforcement. (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40791](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40791),
[@&#8203;christarazi](https://redirect.github.com/christarazi))
- Fix skipping of LoadBalancer services when IPMode is not set to VIP
(KEP-1860) (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40915](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40915),
[@&#8203;joamaki](https://redirect.github.com/joamaki))
-
fix([GH-37724](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/37724)):
Sync policies on startup (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40357](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40357),
[@&#8203;anubhabMajumdar](https://redirect.github.com/anubhabMajumdar))
- fix: create policy snapshot only for sdp (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40785](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40785),
[@&#8203;vipul-21](https://redirect.github.com/vipul-21))
- Fixes a bug where the Cilium agent may segfault when starting.
(Backport PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40824](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40824),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed))
- Fixes an error where the Ingress controller, when run in host network,
created an invalid Service. (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41078](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41078),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40232](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40232),
[@&#8203;rtheobald](https://redirect.github.com/rtheobald))
- helm: Create envoy-config ConfigMap for preflight (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41078](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41078),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40875](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40875),
[@&#8203;sayboras](https://redirect.github.com/sayboras))
- install/kubernetes: fix clustermesh-apiserver extraEnv (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41078](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41078),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;41021](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41021),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- loadbalancer: Fix backend state in REST API (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40780](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40780),
[@&#8203;mhofstetter](https://redirect.github.com/mhofstetter))

**CI Changes:**

- .github/actions: only upload files with features-tested prefix
(Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40975](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40975),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- Add TESTOWNERS file
([#&#8203;40864](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40864),
[@&#8203;joestringer](https://redirect.github.com/joestringer))
- ci: Add Cleanup Disk space step into conformance-runtime (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40973](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40973),
[@&#8203;rastislavs](https://redirect.github.com/rastislavs))
- ci: Fix CI-Fuzz Build failures (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40728](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40728),
[@&#8203;lomackie](https://redirect.github.com/lomackie))
- ci: Reuse connectivity test flags in proxy-embedded (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41078](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41078),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;41036](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41036),
[@&#8203;joestringer](https://redirect.github.com/joestringer))
- endpoint: Avoid unnecessarily logging a warning during endpoint
deletion (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40927](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40927),
[@&#8203;christarazi](https://redirect.github.com/christarazi))
- Fix GKE cluster creation failures when branch names exceed 63-byte
label limit by implementing automatic truncation with hash-based
uniqueness preservation. (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40725](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40725),
[@&#8203;pillai-ashwin](https://redirect.github.com/pillai-ashwin))
- Improved test failure attribution on stable branches by using
TESTOWNERS files to route failures to appropriate code quality teams
rather than generic CI infrastructure teams. (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40776](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40776),
[@&#8203;pillai-ashwin](https://redirect.github.com/pillai-ashwin))
- ipsec: fix privileged tests (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41078](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41078),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;41006](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41006),
[@&#8203;smagnani96](https://redirect.github.com/smagnani96))
- tools/testowners: de-duplicate error logs (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40778](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40778),
[@&#8203;tklauser](https://redirect.github.com/tklauser))
- workflows/ipsec: Fix leak detection for IPv6-only in e2e downgrade
(Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40881](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40881),
[@&#8203;smagnani96](https://redirect.github.com/smagnani96))

**Misc Changes:**

- .github/workflows: bump build-images-base timeout to 60 minutes
(Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40919](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40919),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- .github/workflows: print open file descriptors (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40941](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40941),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- .github: fix removal of all files in /mnt (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40818](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40818),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- .github: remove all contents of /mnt in build images CI (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40814](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40814),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- chore(deps): update actions/download-artifact action to v5 (v1.18)
([#&#8203;41055](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41055),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update all github action dependencies (v1.18)
([#&#8203;40901](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40901),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update all github action dependencies (v1.18)
([#&#8203;41056](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41056),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update all-dependencies (v1.18)
([#&#8203;40900](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40900),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update dependency cilium/cilium-cli to v0.18.6 (v1.18)
([#&#8203;40898](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40898),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update go to v1.24.6 (v1.18)
([#&#8203;40993](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40993),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update stable lvh-images (v1.18) (patch)
([#&#8203;40899](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40899),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update stable lvh-images (v1.18) (patch)
([#&#8203;41054](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41054),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- ci: add/change runner labels (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40972](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40972),
[@&#8203;Artyop](https://redirect.github.com/Artyop))
- daemon/test: explicitly wait for identities synchronization (Backport
PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40811](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40811),
[@&#8203;giorio94](https://redirect.github.com/giorio94))
- docs: Remove references to v1.15 (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41078](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41078),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;41033](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41033),
[@&#8203;joestringer](https://redirect.github.com/joestringer))
- Fix loadbalancer handling of backends with ClusterID set (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41078](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41078),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40968](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40968),
[@&#8203;giorio94](https://redirect.github.com/giorio94))
- Fix race condition issues (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40949](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40949),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- fix(deps): update module github.com/docker/docker to
v28.3.3+incompatible \[security] (v1.18)
([#&#8203;40793](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40793),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- loadbalancer: Raise default retry duration to 1 second (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41078](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41078),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40997](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40997),
[@&#8203;joamaki](https://redirect.github.com/joamaki))
- loadbalancer: Use unique for L3n4Addr (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40633](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40633),
[@&#8203;joamaki](https://redirect.github.com/joamaki))
- Makefile: Fix multi codeowner detection (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40923](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40923),
[@&#8203;joestringer](https://redirect.github.com/joestringer))
- Reduced memory usage by roughly 10% for large EndpointSlices by
sharing identical objects. (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41078](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41078),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40987](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40987),
[@&#8203;joamaki](https://redirect.github.com/joamaki))
- values(.yaml.tmpl): Add Geneve (Class Option) to dsrDispatch paramater
(Backport PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40625](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40625),
[@&#8203;alagoutte](https://redirect.github.com/alagoutte))
- vendor: Bump to StateDB v0.4.5 (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40783](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40783),
[@&#8203;joamaki](https://redirect.github.com/joamaki))

**Other Changes:**

- ci: reduce gke failures
([#&#8203;41070](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41070),
[@&#8203;brlbil](https://redirect.github.com/brlbil))
- install: Update image digests for v1.18.0
([#&#8203;40782](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40782),
[@&#8203;cilium-release-bot](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-release-bot)\[bot])

##### Docker Manifests

##### cilium


`quay.io/cilium/cilium:v1.18.1@&#8203;sha256:65ab17c052d8758b2ad157ce766285e04173722df59bdee1ea6d5fda7149f0e9`

`quay.io/cilium/cilium:stable@sha256:65ab17c052d8758b2ad157ce766285e04173722df59bdee1ea6d5fda7149f0e9`

##### clustermesh-apiserver


`quay.io/cilium/clustermesh-apiserver:v1.18.1@&#8203;sha256:87ab85f33dc7e895ed6257564bf1a255d12399d9e8a075a8fc400910ff94cbeb`

`quay.io/cilium/clustermesh-apiserver:stable@sha256:87ab85f33dc7e895ed6257564bf1a255d12399d9e8a075a8fc400910ff94cbeb`

##### docker-plugin


`quay.io/cilium/docker-plugin:v1.18.1@&#8203;sha256:fb1c6ecb6dc180c97488b8ea45d81275237db14d50e22a1eff3dbfaf9f6f93f3`

`quay.io/cilium/docker-plugin:stable@sha256:fb1c6ecb6dc180c97488b8ea45d81275237db14d50e22a1eff3dbfaf9f6f93f3`

##### hubble-relay


`quay.io/cilium/hubble-relay:v1.18.1@&#8203;sha256:7e2fd4877387c7e112689db7c2b153a4d5c77d125b8d50d472dbe81fc1b139b0`

`quay.io/cilium/hubble-relay:stable@sha256:7e2fd4877387c7e112689db7c2b153a4d5c77d125b8d50d472dbe81fc1b139b0`

##### operator-alibabacloud


`quay.io/cilium/operator-alibabacloud:v1.18.1@&#8203;sha256:e2bdc8236acec0d1ef1552c831a7cd2277624031066fbdfac884a31a4126a32a`

`quay.io/cilium/operator-alibabacloud:stable@sha256:e2bdc8236acec0d1ef1552c831a7cd2277624031066fbdfac884a31a4126a32a`

##### operator-aws


`quay.io/cilium/operator-aws:v1.18.1@&#8203;sha256:de522223ecd73bc06b48042fa59f78f7b3b8f2fff4f8f30a61687516798c5042`

`quay.io/cilium/operator-aws:stable@sha256:de522223ecd73bc06b48042fa59f78f7b3b8f2fff4f8f30a61687516798c5042`

##### operator-azure


`quay.io/cilium/operator-azure:v1.18.1@&#8203;sha256:682058e6734e397e7939e92bb463da3c1b5d8b7a7ce408c3b7a62aadb9ce4f06`

`quay.io/cilium/operator-azure:stable@sha256:682058e6734e397e7939e92bb463da3c1b5d8b7a7ce408c3b7a62aadb9ce4f06`

##### operator-generic


`quay.io/cilium/operator-generic:v1.18.1@&#8203;sha256:97f4553afa443465bdfbc1cc4927c93f16ac5d78e4dd2706736e7395382201bc`

`quay.io/cilium/operator-generic:stable@sha256:97f4553afa443465bdfbc1cc4927c93f16ac5d78e4dd2706736e7395382201bc`

##### operator


`quay.io/cilium/operator:v1.18.1@&#8203;sha256:f3b8d90f945167c1ac4324a0f02a9d381f83076d5ce828fab452014f9335a47e`

`quay.io/cilium/operator:stable@sha256:f3b8d90f945167c1ac4324a0f02a9d381f83076d5ce828fab452014f9335a47e`

###
[`v1.18.0`](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.18.0):
1.18.0

[Compare
Source](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/compare/1.17.7...1.18.0)

We are excited to announce the **[Cilium
1.18.0](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.18.0)**
release!

A total of **3298 new commits** have been contributed to this release by
a growing community of over **955 developers** and over **22,000 GitHub
stars**! ⭐

To keep up to date with all the latest Cilium releases, see
[Announcements](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/discussions/categories/announcements)

Here's what's new in
[v1.18.0](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.18.0):

##### 🚠 Networking

- **⚖️ Load Balancing Redesign**: The service load-balancing
control-plane in the Cilium agent has been redesigned to reduce memory
usage and improve future extensibility of load-balancing features
([cilium/cilium#38469](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38469),
[@&#8203;joamaki](https://redirect.github.com/joamaki))
- **🔌 Virtual Network Devices**: Added support for new virtual network
device configurations such as VXLAN in IPsec (VinE) and IPIP tunnels
([cilium/cilium#37723](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37723),
[@&#8203;ldelossa](https://redirect.github.com/ldelossa);
[cilium/cilium#37346](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37346),
[@&#8203;gyutaeb](https://redirect.github.com/gyutaeb))
- **Ⓜ️ Multiple Egress Gateways**: Egress Gateways policies can now
direct traffic towards multiple gateway nodes
([cilium/cilium#39304](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39304),
[@&#8203;carlos-abad](https://redirect.github.com/carlos-abad))
- **🚦 Ingress Rate Limiting**: The bandwidth manager now supports
ingress rate limiting
([cilium/cilium#36351](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36351),
[@&#8203;l1b0k](https://redirect.github.com/l1b0k))
- **📢 Multi-Device L2 Announcements**: The L2 pod announcement feature
now supports multiple devices
([cilium/cilium#38198](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38198),
[@&#8203;dylandreimerink](https://redirect.github.com/dylandreimerink))
- **🏢 Neighbor Subsystem Rework**: The neighbor subsystem was made more
resilient through a new system that reconciles desired neighbor entries
with the kernel state
([cilium/cilium#39987](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39987),
[@&#8203;dylandreimerink](https://redirect.github.com/dylandreimerink))

##### 🌐 IPv6

- **🚇 Tunneling Underlay**: The tunneling datapath mode now supports
using an IPv6 network underlay, including when configured with IPsec
transparent encryption
([cilium/cilium#38296](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38296),
[cilium/cilium#39497](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39497),
[@&#8203;pchaigno](https://redirect.github.com/pchaigno))
- **💬 Kube Proxy Replacement**: Cilium now implements service
translation when running on an IPv6 underlay
([cilium/cilium#39074](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39074),
[@&#8203;pchaigno](https://redirect.github.com/pchaigno))
- **📋 Delegated IPAM**: When delegating IP address management to a third
party plugin, Cilium now configures IPv6 routes for connectivity if the
plugin supports IPv6
([cilium/cilium#38249](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38249),
[@&#8203;caorui-io](https://redirect.github.com/caorui-io),
[@&#8203;kadevu](https://redirect.github.com/kadevu))
- **📦 IP Fragment Support**: Cilium now processes ordered IPv6 fragments
to apply policy and routing functionality
([cilium/cilium#38110](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38110),
[@&#8203;gentoo-root](https://redirect.github.com/gentoo-root))
- **🚪 Egress gateway policies** can now match IPv6 address ranges
([cilium/cilium#38452](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38452),
[@&#8203;rgo3](https://redirect.github.com/rgo3))

##### 🛡️ Policy & Observability

- **🏷️ Policy Names in Hubble-CLI**: Show the names of (C)CNPs that
allowed or denied traffic when monitoring flows in Hubble
([cilium/cilium#39453](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39453),
[@&#8203;antonipp](https://redirect.github.com/antonipp))
- **📝 Policy Log Fields**: A new free-text log field is added to
policies, which is exposed in Hubble flows for easy correlation and
searching
([cilium/cilium#39902](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39902),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed))
- **🛰️ Encapsulated Traffic Decoding**: Hubble decodes encapsulated
traffic for deeper introspection into traffic flows
([cilium/cilium#37634](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37634),
[@&#8203;kaworu](https://redirect.github.com/kaworu))
- **🏰 ClusterMesh Policy Restriction**: A new option allows the
**cluster** entity to apply only to the local cluster in ClusterMesh
environment
([cilium/cilium#39338](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39338),
[@&#8203;MrFreezeex](https://redirect.github.com/MrFreezeex))
- **✨ Enhanced Policy Dashboard**: The Policy section of the Cilium
Grafana dashboard has been improved to show more relevant graphs,
including policy drops in both directions
([cilium/cilium#36492](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36492),
[cilium/cilium#37445](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37445),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed))

##### 🌅 Performance

- **📊 Scale Test Results**: Cilium implements policies and services up
to 45% faster in higher scale environments (Various;
[@&#8203;marseel](https://redirect.github.com/marseel),
[cilium/cilium#40227](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40227))
- **📦 Image Size Reduction**: Docker image sizes are reduced by 32% on
arm64 architecture images
([cilium/cilium#40005](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40005),
[@&#8203;marseel](https://redirect.github.com/marseel))
- **⚡ Improved Policy Performance**: The DNS proxy can process large
numbers of IPs faster, and the EndpointSelector match implementation has
been optimized
([cilium/cilium#39340](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39340),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed);
[cilium/cilium#40414](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40414),
[@&#8203;marseel](https://redirect.github.com/marseel))
- **🪞 EndpointSlice Mirroring for Multi-Cluster Services**: Clustermesh
mirrors EndpointSlice from the local cluster instead of copying the
Service selectors when using the MCS-API controller
([cilium/cilium#38596](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38596),
[@&#8203;MrFreezeex](https://redirect.github.com/MrFreezeex))
- **🌐 KVStoreMesh Optimization**: Cross-cluster state distribution is
optimized by only synchronizing identities keyed by ID, not by value
([cilium/cilium#36471](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36471),
[@&#8203;HadrienPatte](https://redirect.github.com/HadrienPatte))
- **🧠 Egress Gateway Processing**: Egress gateway policy processing is
significantly improved when matching a large number of pods
([cilium/cilium#37714](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37714),
[@&#8203;giorio94](https://redirect.github.com/giorio94))
- **🗑️ Optimized Garbage Collection for Connection Tracking**: Cilium
leverages batched iterators for CTMap GC
([cilium/cilium#36288](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36288),
[@&#8203;tommyp1ckles](https://redirect.github.com/tommyp1ckles))

##### ⚙️ Operations

- **📈 API Server Connections at Scale**: Improve kube-apiserver
connections behavior at scale through failover and setting better jitter
and backoff configurations
([cilium/cilium#37601](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37601),
[@&#8203;aditighag](https://redirect.github.com/aditighag);
[cilium/cilium#38031](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38031),
[@&#8203;orange30](https://redirect.github.com/orange30);
[cilium/cilium#36648](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36648),
[@&#8203;wedaly](https://redirect.github.com/wedaly))
- **🔄 ConfigMap Synchronization**: New option to automatically
synchronize ConfigMap changes into the agent and report metrics for when
the effective configuration is different from the desired configuration
([cilium/cilium#36510](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36510),
[@&#8203;ovidiutirla](https://redirect.github.com/ovidiutirla))
- **🎓 CRD Promotion to Stable**: Promote **CiliumCIDRGroup**,
**CiliumLoadBalancerIPPool** and all **BGP** CRDs to stable API
([cilium/cilium#38940](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38940),
[@&#8203;christarazi](https://redirect.github.com/christarazi);
[cilium/cilium#39090](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39090),
[@&#8203;pippolo84](https://redirect.github.com/pippolo84);
[cilium/cilium#37765](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37765),
[@&#8203;rastislavs](https://redirect.github.com/rastislavs))
- **⛔ Node Taints Handling**: The cilium-operator Deployment uses a new
default set of taints which avoids deploying to a drained node
([cilium/cilium#40137](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40137),
[@&#8203;Murat](https://redirect.github.com/Murat) Parlakisik)
- **:wood: Migrate to Slog**: Cilium now uses slog as log library for
all components
([cilium/cilium#39664](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39664),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- **🔧 Cilium dependencies** were updated to Kubernetes v1.33, Envoy
v1.34, LLVM 19.1, and CNI v1.1
([cilium/cilium#39124](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39124),
[cilium/cilium#40175](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40175),
[cilium/cilium#39632](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39632),
[@&#8203;sayboras](https://redirect.github.com/sayboras);
[cilium/cilium#38868](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38868),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed))
- **🐧 Minimum Linux Requirements**: The minimum kernel version for this
release series is Linux v5.10 or similar, such as RHEL 8.6
([cilium/cilium#38308](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38308),
[@&#8203;julianwiedmann](https://redirect.github.com/julianwiedmann))

##### 🕸️ Service Mesh & Gateway API

- **⛩️ Gateway API v1.3.0**: Gateway API support is bumped to v1.3.0
([cilium/cilium#39590](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39590),
[@&#8203;sayboras](https://redirect.github.com/sayboras))
- **🔗 Improved GatewayClass Configuration**: The new
CiliumGatewayClassConfig object adds service type validation allows the
configuration of extra settings on a per-GatewayClass level:
LoadBalancerSourceRangesPolicy, ParametersRef fields. This allows Cilium
to reconcile multiple GatewayClasses with different configurations
([cilium/cilium#37792](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37792),
[cilium/cilium#37402](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37402),
[cilium/cilium#40138](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40138),
[@&#8203;sayboras](https://redirect.github.com/sayboras))
- **🚏 Multiple HTTPRoutes**: GAMMA reconciler now supports attaching
multiple HTTPRoutes to the same Service
([cilium/cilium#39922](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39922),
[@&#8203;youngnick](https://redirect.github.com/youngnick))
- **🪄 Route Changes Reconciliation**: Reconcile Gateway API based on all
changes to routes. This allows label updates to trigger reconciliation
correctly, amongst other things
([cilium/cilium#37798](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37798),
[@&#8203;sayboras](https://redirect.github.com/sayboras))

##### 🏷️ IP Address Management

- **☁️ AWS Prefix Delegation**: Prefix delegation on AWS bare metal
instances is now supported natively in Cilium's AWS ENI IPAM mode
([cilium/cilium#39678](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39678),
[@&#8203;41ks](https://redirect.github.com/41ks))
- **🏬 Multi-Pool IPAM with KVStore**: Add support for Multi-Pool IPAM in
external KVstore mode
([cilium/cilium#39638](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39638),
[@&#8203;pippolo84](https://redirect.github.com/pippolo84))
- **🔐 Multi-Pool IPAM with IPSec**: Add support for Multi-Pool IPAM mode
with IPSec transparent encryption in tunnel routing mode
([cilium/cilium#39442](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39442),
[@&#8203;pippolo84](https://redirect.github.com/pippolo84))
- **↪️ Multi-Pool Tunnel Routing**: Add support for tunnel routing in
multi-pool IPAM mode
([cilium/cilium#38483](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38483),
[@&#8203;pippolo84](https://redirect.github.com/pippolo84))

##### 🛣️ BGP

- **📇 Route Aggregation**: Add support for BGP route aggregation in the
control plane
([cilium/cilium#37275](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37275),
[@&#8203;romanspb80](https://redirect.github.com/romanspb80))
- **🎯 Overlapping Selector Matches**: Support overlapping selector
matches in **CiliumBGPAdvertisement** resources
([cilium/cilium#36414](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36414),
[@&#8203;dswaffordcw](https://redirect.github.com/dswaffordcw))
- **🆔 New Router ID generation modes**: Generate router-id based on MAC
addresses, or from an IP address pool
([cilium/cilium#36451](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36451),
[@&#8203;yushoyamaguchi](https://redirect.github.com/yushoyamaguchi);
[cilium/cilium#38300](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38300),
[@&#8203;liyihuang](https://redirect.github.com/liyihuang))

##### 🧑‍💻 Development Experience

- **🧪 Test attribution**: Identify owners of test in GitHub workflow
results to make it easier to connect with other developers on tricky
problems
([cilium/cilium#37027](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37027),
[@&#8203;Joe](https://redirect.github.com/Joe) Stringer)
- **🛏️ Policy REST API**: The Cilium policy API exposed over a local
unix socket is deprecated. The other mechanisms to configure policy via
Kubernetes resources or the local filesystem are preferred
([cilium/cilium#40212](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40212),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed))
- **🏗️ Feature Deprecation**: Deprecate underused features like Custom
Calls, Recorder API and External Workloads
([cilium/cilium#38480](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38480),
[cilium/cilium#39642](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39642),
[cilium/cilium#37418](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37418),
[@&#8203;brb](https://redirect.github.com/brb))

##### 🏢 Community

- **❤️ Production Case Studies**: Many end-users have stepped forward to
tell their stories running Cilium in production. If your company wants
to submit their case studies let us know. We would love to hear your
feedback!
- [ByteDance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKPW67D7X10), [Canopus
Networks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXl9xuIxylY), [Corner
Banca](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVPKSefazl4), [DB
Schenker](https://www.cncf.io/case-studies/db-schenker/),
[eBay](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEa4KFf5FzY),
[ECCO](https://www.cncf.io/case-studies/ecco/),
[G-Research](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjSFN34dROQ), [Social
Network
Company](https://cilium.io/blog/2025/04/15/tetragon-social-networking-user-story/),
and [Preferred Networks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7_I4zu6f_M)
- **🇬🇧 London Events**: The community gathered at
[CiliumCon](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/co-located-events/ciliumcon/)
and the [Cilium Developer
Summit](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/dev-summits/tree/main/2025-EU)
in London
- **🇺🇸 Atlanta Events**: Meet us at the upcoming
[CiliumCon](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/co-located-events/ciliumcon/)
and Cilium Developers Summit in Atlanta, Georgia
- **👥 SIG Community Meetings**: [SIG
Community](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/community/tree/main/sig-community)
now meets every first and third Thursday to foster, grow, and sustain
the Cilium open source community

##### 📔 Full CHANGELOG

- Full CHANGELOG.md can be found
[here](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/blob/v1.18.0/CHANGELOG.md).

And finally, we would like to thank you to all contributors of Cilium
that helped directly and indirectly with the project. The success of
Cilium could not happen without all of you. ❤️ :people\_holding\_hands:
❤️

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## Summary of Changes

**Minor Changes:**

- Add `kernel_version`, `endpoint_routes_enabled`, `strict_mode_enabled`
and `kubernetes_version` feature metrics. (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41078](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41078),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;41003](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41003),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- eni: improve logging and speed up ipam reconciliation in case of node
scale-downs (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40852](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40852),
[@&#8203;marseel](https://redirect.github.com/marseel))
- kvstore: Cilium Agent no longer fails health-check if operator is
unavailable (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40920](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40920),
[@&#8203;marseel](https://redirect.github.com/marseel))
- operator: CRDs are updated in series instead of in parallel now during
Cilium upgrades. This should lower the pressure on the k8s control plane
(Backport PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40322](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40322),
[@&#8203;marseel](https://redirect.github.com/marseel))

**Bugfixes:**

- Add missing safeguards to topology-aware routing: use all backends
when no suitable one matching the zone hints are found or a backend
exists without a zone hint.
([#&#8203;41116](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41116),
[@&#8203;joamaki](https://redirect.github.com/joamaki))
- aws/eni: Don't use subnet tags to filter ENIs for GC (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40656](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40656),
[@&#8203;HadrienPatte](https://redirect.github.com/HadrienPatte))
- clustermesh: fix regression possibly causing cross-cluster connections
disruption if the clustermesh-apiserver is restarted at the same time as
Cilium agents. (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40786](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40786),
[@&#8203;giorio94](https://redirect.github.com/giorio94))
- clustermesh: fix regression preventing global services with unnamed
ports from including remote backends (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40865](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40865),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40848](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40848),
[@&#8203;giorio94](https://redirect.github.com/giorio94))
- Fix bug where the presence of a label called "ingress" causes
incorrect assignment of identities to workloads, affecting policy
enforcement. (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40791](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40791),
[@&#8203;christarazi](https://redirect.github.com/christarazi))
- Fix skipping of LoadBalancer services when IPMode is not set to VIP
(KEP-1860) (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40915](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40915),
[@&#8203;joamaki](https://redirect.github.com/joamaki))
-
fix([GH-37724](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/37724)):
Sync policies on startup (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40357](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40357),
[@&#8203;anubhabMajumdar](https://redirect.github.com/anubhabMajumdar))
- fix: create policy snapshot only for sdp (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40785](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40785),
[@&#8203;vipul-21](https://redirect.github.com/vipul-21))
- Fixes a bug where the Cilium agent may segfault when starting.
(Backport PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40824](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40824),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed))
- Fixes an error where the Ingress controller, when run in host network,
created an invalid Service. (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41078](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41078),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40232](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40232),
[@&#8203;rtheobald](https://redirect.github.com/rtheobald))
- helm: Create envoy-config ConfigMap for preflight (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41078](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41078),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40875](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40875),
[@&#8203;sayboras](https://redirect.github.com/sayboras))
- install/kubernetes: fix clustermesh-apiserver extraEnv (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41078](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41078),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;41021](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41021),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- loadbalancer: Fix backend state in REST API (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40780](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40780),
[@&#8203;mhofstetter](https://redirect.github.com/mhofstetter))

**CI Changes:**

- .github/actions: only upload files with features-tested prefix
(Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40975](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40975),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- Add TESTOWNERS file
([#&#8203;40864](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40864),
[@&#8203;joestringer](https://redirect.github.com/joestringer))
- ci: Add Cleanup Disk space step into conformance-runtime (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40973](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40973),
[@&#8203;rastislavs](https://redirect.github.com/rastislavs))
- ci: Fix CI-Fuzz Build failures (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40728](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40728),
[@&#8203;lomackie](https://redirect.github.com/lomackie))
- ci: Reuse connectivity test flags in proxy-embedded (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41078](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41078),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;41036](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41036),
[@&#8203;joestringer](https://redirect.github.com/joestringer))
- endpoint: Avoid unnecessarily logging a warning during endpoint
deletion (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40927](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40927),
[@&#8203;christarazi](https://redirect.github.com/christarazi))
- Fix GKE cluster creation failures when branch names exceed 63-byte
label limit by implementing automatic truncation with hash-based
uniqueness preservation. (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40725](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40725),
[@&#8203;pillai-ashwin](https://redirect.github.com/pillai-ashwin))
- Improved test failure attribution on stable branches by using
TESTOWNERS files to route failures to appropriate code quality teams
rather than generic CI infrastructure teams. (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40776](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40776),
[@&#8203;pillai-ashwin](https://redirect.github.com/pillai-ashwin))
- ipsec: fix privileged tests (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41078](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41078),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;41006](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41006),
[@&#8203;smagnani96](https://redirect.github.com/smagnani96))
- tools/testowners: de-duplicate error logs (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40778](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40778),
[@&#8203;tklauser](https://redirect.github.com/tklauser))
- workflows/ipsec: Fix leak detection for IPv6-only in e2e downgrade
(Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40881](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40881),
[@&#8203;smagnani96](https://redirect.github.com/smagnani96))

**Misc Changes:**

- .github/workflows: bump build-images-base timeout to 60 minutes
(Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40919](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40919),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- .github/workflows: print open file descriptors (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40941](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40941),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- .github: fix removal of all files in /mnt (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40818](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40818),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- .github: remove all contents of /mnt in build images CI (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40814](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40814),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- chore(deps): update actions/download-artifact action to v5 (v1.18)
([#&#8203;41055](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41055),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update all github action dependencies (v1.18)
([#&#8203;40901](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40901),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update all github action dependencies (v1.18)
([#&#8203;41056](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41056),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update all-dependencies (v1.18)
([#&#8203;40900](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40900),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update dependency cilium/cilium-cli to v0.18.6 (v1.18)
([#&#8203;40898](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40898),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update go to v1.24.6 (v1.18)
([#&#8203;40993](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40993),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update stable lvh-images (v1.18) (patch)
([#&#8203;40899](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40899),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update stable lvh-images (v1.18) (patch)
([#&#8203;41054](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41054),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- ci: add/change runner labels (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40972](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40972),
[@&#8203;Artyop](https://redirect.github.com/Artyop))
- daemon/test: explicitly wait for identities synchronization (Backport
PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40811](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40811),
[@&#8203;giorio94](https://redirect.github.com/giorio94))
- docs: Remove references to v1.15 (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41078](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41078),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;41033](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41033),
[@&#8203;joestringer](https://redirect.github.com/joestringer))
- Fix loadbalancer handling of backends with ClusterID set (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41078](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41078),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40968](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40968),
[@&#8203;giorio94](https://redirect.github.com/giorio94))
- Fix race condition issues (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40949](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40949),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- fix(deps): update module github.com/docker/docker to
v28.3.3+incompatible \[security] (v1.18)
([#&#8203;40793](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40793),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- loadbalancer: Raise default retry duration to 1 second (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41078](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41078),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40997](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40997),
[@&#8203;joamaki](https://redirect.github.com/joamaki))
- loadbalancer: Use unique for L3n4Addr (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40633](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40633),
[@&#8203;joamaki](https://redirect.github.com/joamaki))
- Makefile: Fix multi codeowner detection (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40923](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40923),
[@&#8203;joestringer](https://redirect.github.com/joestringer))
- Reduced memory usage by roughly 10% for large EndpointSlices by
sharing identical objects. (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41078](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41078),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40987](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40987),
[@&#8203;joamaki](https://redirect.github.com/joamaki))
- values(.yaml.tmpl): Add Geneve (Class Option) to dsrDispatch paramater
(Backport PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40625](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40625),
[@&#8203;alagoutte](https://redirect.github.com/alagoutte))
- vendor: Bump to StateDB v0.4.5 (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40783](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40783),
[@&#8203;joamaki](https://redirect.github.com/joamaki))

**Other Changes:**

- ci: reduce gke failures
([#&#8203;41070](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41070),
[@&#8203;brlbil](https://redirect.github.com/brlbil))
- install: Update image digests for v1.18.0
([#&#8203;40782](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40782),
[@&#8203;cilium-release-bot](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-release-bot)\[bot])

#### Docker Manifests

##### cilium


`quay.io/cilium/cilium:v1.18.1@&#8203;sha256:65ab17c052d8758b2ad157ce766285e04173722df59bdee1ea6d5fda7149f0e9`

`quay.io/cilium/cilium:stable@sha256:65ab17c052d8758b2ad157ce766285e04173722df59bdee1ea6d5fda7149f0e9`

##### clustermesh-apiserver


`quay.io/cilium/clustermesh-apiserver:v1.18.1@&#8203;sha256:87ab85f33dc7e895ed6257564bf1a255d12399d9e8a075a8fc400910ff94cbeb`

`quay.io/cilium/clustermesh-apiserver:stable@sha256:87ab85f33dc7e895ed6257564bf1a255d12399d9e8a075a8fc400910ff94cbeb`

##### docker-plugin


`quay.io/cilium/docker-plugin:v1.18.1@&#8203;sha256:fb1c6ecb6dc180c97488b8ea45d81275237db14d50e22a1eff3dbfaf9f6f93f3`

`quay.io/cilium/docker-plugin:stable@sha256:fb1c6ecb6dc180c97488b8ea45d81275237db14d50e22a1eff3dbfaf9f6f93f3`

##### hubble-relay


`quay.io/cilium/hubble-relay:v1.18.1@&#8203;sha256:7e2fd4877387c7e112689db7c2b153a4d5c77d125b8d50d472dbe81fc1b139b0`

`quay.io/cilium/hubble-relay:stable@sha256:7e2fd4877387c7e112689db7c2b153a4d5c77d125b8d50d472dbe81fc1b139b0`

##### operator-alibabacloud


`quay.io/cilium/operator-alibabacloud:v1.18.1@&#8203;sha256:e2bdc8236acec0d1ef1552c831a7cd2277624031066fbdfac884a31a4126a32a`

`quay.io/cilium/operator-alibabacloud:stable@sha256:e2bdc8236acec0d1ef1552c831a7cd2277624031066fbdfac884a31a4126a32a`

##### operator-aws


`quay.io/cilium/operator-aws:v1.18.1@&#8203;sha256:de522223ecd73bc06b48042fa59f78f7b3b8f2fff4f8f30a61687516798c5042`

`quay.io/cilium/operator-aws:stable@sha256:de522223ecd73bc06b48042fa59f78f7b3b8f2fff4f8f30a61687516798c5042`

##### operator-azure


`quay.io/cilium/operator-azure:v1.18.1@&#8203;sha256:682058e6734e397e7939e92bb463da3c1b5d8b7a7ce408c3b7a62aadb9ce4f06`

`quay.io/cilium/operator-azure:stable@sha256:682058e6734e397e7939e92bb463da3c1b5d8b7a7ce408c3b7a62aadb9ce4f06`

##### operator-generic


`quay.io/cilium/operator-generic:v1.18.1@&#8203;sha256:97f4553afa443465bdfbc1cc4927c93f16ac5d78e4dd2706736e7395382201bc`

`quay.io/cilium/operator-generic:stable@sha256:97f4553afa443465bdfbc1cc4927c93f16ac5d78e4dd2706736e7395382201bc`

##### operator


`quay.io/cilium/operator:v1.18.1@&#8203;sha256:f3b8d90f945167c1ac4324a0f02a9d381f83076d5ce828fab452014f9335a47e`

`quay.io/cilium/operator:stable@sha256:f3b8d90f945167c1ac4324a0f02a9d381f83076d5ce828fab452014f9335a47e`

###
[`v1.18.0`](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.18.0):
1.18.0

[Compare
Source](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/compare/1.17.7...1.18.0)

We are excited to announce the **[Cilium
1.18.0](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.18.0)**
release!

A total of **3298 new commits** have been contributed to this release by
a growing community of over **955 developers** and over **22,000 GitHub
stars**! ⭐

To keep up to date with all the latest Cilium releases, see
[Announcements](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/discussions/categories/announcements)

Here's what's new in
[v1.18.0](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.18.0):

#### 🚠 Networking

- **⚖️ Load Balancing Redesign**: The service load-balancing
control-plane in the Cilium agent has been redesigned to reduce memory
usage and improve future extensibility of load-balancing features
([cilium/cilium#38469](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38469),
[@&#8203;joamaki](https://redirect.github.com/joamaki))
- **🔌 Virtual Network Devices**: Added support for new virtual network
device configurations such as VXLAN in IPsec (VinE) and IPIP tunnels
([cilium/cilium#37723](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37723),
[@&#8203;ldelossa](https://redirect.github.com/ldelossa);
[cilium/cilium#37346](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37346),
[@&#8203;gyutaeb](https://redirect.github.com/gyutaeb))
- **Ⓜ️ Multiple Egress Gateways**: Egress Gateways policies can now
direct traffic towards multiple gateway nodes
([cilium/cilium#39304](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39304),
[@&#8203;carlos-abad](https://redirect.github.com/carlos-abad))
- **🚦 Ingress Rate Limiting**: The bandwidth manager now supports
ingress rate limiting
([cilium/cilium#36351](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36351),
[@&#8203;l1b0k](https://redirect.github.com/l1b0k))
- **📢 Multi-Device L2 Announcements**: The L2 pod announcement feature
now supports multiple devices
([cilium/cilium#38198](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38198),
[@&#8203;dylandreimerink](https://redirect.github.com/dylandreimerink))
- **🏢 Neighbor Subsystem Rework**: The neighbor subsystem was made more
resilient through a new system that reconciles desired neighbor entries
with the kernel state
([cilium/cilium#39987](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39987),
[@&#8203;dylandreimerink](https://redirect.github.com/dylandreimerink))

#### 🌐 IPv6

- **🚇 Tunneling Underlay**: The tunneling datapath mode now supports
using an IPv6 network underlay, including when configured with IPsec
transparent encryption
([cilium/cilium#38296](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38296),
[cilium/cilium#39497](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39497),
[@&#8203;pchaigno](https://redirect.github.com/pchaigno))
- **💬 Kube Proxy Replacement**: Cilium now implements service
translation when running on an IPv6 underlay
([cilium/cilium#39074](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39074),
[@&#8203;pchaigno](https://redirect.github.com/pchaigno))
- **📋 Delegated IPAM**: When delegating IP address management to a third
party plugin, Cilium now configures IPv6 routes for connectivity if the
plugin supports IPv6
([cilium/cilium#38249](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38249),
[@&#8203;caorui-io](https://redirect.github.com/caorui-io),
[@&#8203;kadevu](https://redirect.github.com/kadevu))
- **📦 IP Fragment Support**: Cilium now processes ordered IPv6 fragments
to apply policy and routing functionality
([cilium/cilium#38110](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38110),
[@&#8203;gentoo-root](https://redirect.github.com/gentoo-root))
- **🚪 Egress gateway policies** can now match IPv6 address ranges
([cilium/cilium#38452](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38452),
[@&#8203;rgo3](https://redirect.github.com/rgo3))

#### 🛡️ Policy & Observability

- **🏷️ Policy Names in Hubble-CLI**: Show the names of (C)CNPs that
allowed or denied traffic when monitoring flows in Hubble
([cilium/cilium#39453](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39453),
[@&#8203;antonipp](https://redirect.github.com/antonipp))
- **📝 Policy Log Fields**: A new free-text log field is added to
policies, which is exposed in Hubble flows for easy correlation and
searching
([cilium/cilium#39902](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39902),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed))
- **🛰️ Encapsulated Traffic Decoding**: Hubble decodes encapsulated
traffic for deeper introspection into traffic flows
([cilium/cilium#37634](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37634),
[@&#8203;kaworu](https://redirect.github.com/kaworu))
- **🏰 ClusterMesh Policy Restriction**: A new option allows the
**cluster** entity to apply only to the local cluster in ClusterMesh
environment
([cilium/cilium#39338](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39338),
[@&#8203;MrFreezeex](https://redirect.github.com/MrFreezeex))
- **✨ Enhanced Policy Dashboard**: The Policy section of the Cilium
Grafana dashboard has been improved to show more relevant graphs,
including policy drops in both directions
([cilium/cilium#36492](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36492),
[cilium/cilium#37445](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37445),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed))

#### 🌅 Performance

- **📊 Scale Test Results**: Cilium implements policies and services up
to 45% faster in higher scale environments (Various;
[@&#8203;marseel](https://redirect.github.com/marseel),
[cilium/cilium#40227](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40227))
- **📦 Image Size Reduction**: Docker image sizes are reduced by 32% on
arm64 architecture images
([cilium/cilium#40005](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40005),
[@&#8203;marseel](https://redirect.github.com/marseel))
- **⚡ Improved Policy Performance**: The DNS proxy can process large
numbers of IPs faster, and the EndpointSelector match implementation has
been optimized
([cilium/cilium#39340](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39340),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed);
[cilium/cilium#40414](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40414),
[@&#8203;marseel](https://redirect.github.com/marseel))
- **🪞 EndpointSlice Mirroring for Multi-Cluster Services**: Clustermesh
mirrors EndpointSlice from the local cluster instead of copying the
Service selectors when using the MCS-API controller
([cilium/cilium#38596](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38596),
[@&#8203;MrFreezeex](https://redirect.github.com/MrFreezeex))
- **🌐 KVStoreMesh Optimization**: Cross-cluster state distribution is
optimized by only synchronizing identities keyed by ID, not by value
([cilium/cilium#36471](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36471),
[@&#8203;HadrienPatte](https://redirect.github.com/HadrienPatte))
- **🧠 Egress Gateway Processing**: Egress gateway policy processing is
significantly improved when matching a large number of pods
([cilium/cilium#37714](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37714),
[@&#8203;giorio94](https://redirect.github.com/giorio94))
- **🗑️ Optimized Garbage Collection for Connection Tracking**: Cilium
leverages batched iterators for CTMap GC
([cilium/cilium#36288](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36288),
[@&#8203;tommyp1ckles](https://redirect.github.com/tommyp1ckles))

#### ⚙️ Operations

- **📈 API Server Connections at Scale**: Improve kube-apiserver
connections behavior at scale through failover and setting better jitter
and backoff configurations
([cilium/cilium#37601](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37601),
[@&#8203;aditighag](https://redirect.github.com/aditighag);
[cilium/cilium#38031](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38031),
[@&#8203;orange30](https://redirect.github.com/orange30);
[cilium/cilium#36648](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36648),
[@&#8203;wedaly](https://redirect.github.com/wedaly))
- **🔄 ConfigMap Synchronization**: New option to automatically
synchronize ConfigMap changes into the agent and report metrics for when
the effective configuration is different from the desired configuration
([cilium/cilium#36510](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36510),
[@&#8203;ovidiutirla](https://redirect.github.com/ovidiutirla))
- **🎓 CRD Promotion to Stable**: Promote **CiliumCIDRGroup**,
**CiliumLoadBalancerIPPool** and all **BGP** CRDs to stable API
([cilium/cilium#38940](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38940),
[@&#8203;christarazi](https://redirect.github.com/christarazi);
[cilium/cilium#39090](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39090),
[@&#8203;pippolo84](https://redirect.github.com/pippolo84);
[cilium/cilium#37765](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37765),
[@&#8203;rastislavs](https://redirect.github.com/rastislavs))
- **⛔ Node Taints Handling**: The cilium-operator Deployment uses a new
default set of taints which avoids deploying to a drained node
([cilium/cilium#40137](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40137),
[@&#8203;Murat](https://redirect.github.com/Murat) Parlakisik)
- **:wood: Migrate to Slog**: Cilium now uses slog as log library for
all components
([cilium/cilium#39664](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39664),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- **🔧 Cilium dependencies** were updated to Kubernetes v1.33, Envoy
v1.34, LLVM 19.1, and CNI v1.1
([cilium/cilium#39124](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39124),
[cilium/cilium#40175](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40175),
[cilium/cilium#39632](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39632),
[@&#8203;sayboras](https://redirect.github.com/sayboras);
[cilium/cilium#38868](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38868),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed))
- **🐧 Minimum Linux Requirements**: The minimum kernel version for this
release series is Linux v5.10 or similar, such as RHEL 8.6
([cilium/cilium#38308](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38308),
[@&#8203;julianwiedmann](https://redirect.github.com/julianwiedmann))

#### 🕸️ Service Mesh & Gateway API

- **⛩️ Gateway API v1.3.0**: Gateway API support is bumped to v1.3.0
([cilium/cilium#39590](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39590),
[@&#8203;sayboras](https://redirect.github.com/sayboras))
- **🔗 Improved GatewayClass Configuration**: The new
CiliumGatewayClassConfig object adds service type validation allows the
configuration of extra settings on a per-GatewayClass level:
LoadBalancerSourceRangesPolicy, ParametersRef fields. This allows Cilium
to reconcile multiple GatewayClasses with different configurations
([cilium/cilium#37792](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37792),
[cilium/cilium#37402](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37402),
[cilium/cilium#40138](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40138),
[@&#8203;sayboras](https://redirect.github.com/sayboras))
- **🚏 Multiple HTTPRoutes**: GAMMA reconciler now supports attaching
multiple HTTPRoutes to the same Service
([cilium/cilium#39922](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39922),
[@&#8203;youngnick](https://redirect.github.com/youngnick))
- **🪄 Route Changes Reconciliation**: Reconcile Gateway API based on all
changes to routes. This allows label updates to trigger reconciliation
correctly, amongst other things
([cilium/cilium#37798](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37798),
[@&#8203;sayboras](https://redirect.github.com/sayboras))

#### 🏷️ IP Address Management

- **☁️ AWS Prefix Delegation**: Prefix delegation on AWS bare metal
instances is now supported natively in Cilium's AWS ENI IPAM mode
([cilium/cilium#39678](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39678),
[@&#8203;41ks](https://redirect.github.com/41ks))
- **🏬 Multi-Pool IPAM with KVStore**: Add support for Multi-Pool IPAM in
external KVstore mode
([cilium/cilium#39638](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39638),
[@&#8203;pippolo84](https://redirect.github.com/pippolo84))
- **🔐 Multi-Pool IPAM with IPSec**: Add support for Multi-Pool IPAM mode
with IPSec transparent encryption in tunnel routing mode
([cilium/cilium#39442](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39442),
[@&#8203;pippolo84](https://redirect.github.com/pippolo84))
- **↪️ Multi-Pool Tunnel Routing**: Add support for tunnel routing in
multi-pool IPAM mode
([cilium/cilium#38483](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38483),
[@&#8203;pippolo84](https://redirect.github.com/pippolo84))

#### 🛣️ BGP

- **📇 Route Aggregation**: Add support for BGP route aggregation in the
control plane
([cilium/cilium#37275](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37275),
[@&#8203;romanspb80](https://redirect.github.com/romanspb80))
- **🎯 Overlapping Selector Matches**: Support overlapping selector
matches in **CiliumBGPAdvertisement** resources
([cilium/cilium#36414](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36414),
[@&#8203;dswaffordcw](https://redirect.github.com/dswaffordcw))
- **🆔 New Router ID generation modes**: Generate router-id based on MAC
addresses, or from an IP address pool
([cilium/cilium#36451](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36451),
[@&#8203;yushoyamaguchi](https://redirect.github.com/yushoyamaguchi);
[cilium/cilium#38300](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38300),
[@&#8203;liyihuang](https://redirect.github.com/liyihuang))

#### 🧑‍💻 Development Experience

- **🧪 Test attribution**: Identify owners of test in GitHub workflow
results to make it easier to connect with other developers on tricky
problems
([cilium/cilium#37027](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37027),
[@&#8203;Joe](https://redirect.github.com/Joe) Stringer)
- **🛏️ Policy REST API**: The Cilium policy API exposed over a local
unix socket is deprecated. The other mechanisms to configure policy via
Kubernetes resources or the local filesystem are preferred
([cilium/cilium#40212](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40212),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed))
- **🏗️ Feature Deprecation**: Deprecate underused features like Custom
Calls, Recorder API and External Workloads
([cilium/cilium#38480](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38480),
[cilium/cilium#39642](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39642),
[cilium/cilium#37418](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37418),
[@&#8203;brb](https://redirect.github.com/brb))

#### 🏢 Community

- **❤️ Production Case Studies**: Many end-users have stepped forward to
tell their stories running Cilium in production. If your company wants
to submit their case studies let us know. We would love to hear your
feedback!
- [ByteDance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKPW67D7X10), [Canopus
Networks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXl9xuIxylY), [Corner
Banca](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVPKSefazl4), [DB
Schenker](https://www.cncf.io/case-studies/db-schenker/),
[eBay](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEa4KFf5FzY),
[ECCO](https://www.cncf.io/case-studies/ecco/),
[G-Research](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjSFN34dROQ), [Social
Network
Company](https://cilium.io/blog/2025/04/15/tetragon-social-networking-user-story/),
and [Preferred Networks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7_I4zu6f_M)
- **🇬🇧 London Events**: The community gathered at
[CiliumCon](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/co-located-events/ciliumcon/)
and the [Cilium Developer
Summit](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/dev-summits/tree/main/2025-EU)
in London
- **🇺🇸 Atlanta Events**: Meet us at the upcoming
[CiliumCon](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/co-located-events/ciliumcon/)
and Cilium Developers Summit in Atlanta, Georgia
- **👥 SIG Community Meetings**: [SIG
Community](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/community/tree/main/sig-community)
now meets every first and third Thursday to foster, grow, and sustain
the Cilium open source community

#### 📔 Full CHANGELOG

- Full CHANGELOG.md can be found
[here](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/blob/v1.18.0/CHANGELOG.md).

And finally, we would like to thank you to all contributors of Cilium
that helped directly and indirectly with the project. The success of
Cilium could not happen without all of you. ❤️ :people\_holding\_hands:
❤️

###
[`v1.17.7`](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.17.7):
1.17.7

[Compare
Source](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/compare/1.17.6...1.17.7)

## Summary of Changes

**Minor Changes:**

- Add `kernel_version`, `endpoint_routes_enabled`, `strict_mode_enabled`
and `kubernetes_version` feature metrics. (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41074](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41074),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;41003](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41003),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))

**Bugfixes:**

- Added cleanup of deprecated cilium\_policy\_v1 maps (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40578](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40578),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;39400](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/39400),
[@&#8203;pasteley](https://redirect.github.com/pasteley))
- bgp: Use private fork of the GoBGP to fix BGP MD5 auth (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40578](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40578),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40566](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40566),
[@&#8203;YutaroHayakawa](https://redirect.github.com/YutaroHayakawa))
- bpf/nat: fix header offset while reverse nat-ing icmp6 pkt too big.
(Backport PR
[#&#8203;40387](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40387),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40002](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40002),
[@&#8203;tommyp1ckles](https://redirect.github.com/tommyp1ckles))
- Enable protocol differentiation by default on the operator, matching
the agent
([#&#8203;40643](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40643),
[@&#8203;dylandreimerink](https://redirect.github.com/dylandreimerink))
- Fix a bug where Cilium leaks stale routes when IPsec is enabled.
(Backport PR
[#&#8203;40664](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40664),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40653](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40653),
[@&#8203;pippolo84](https://redirect.github.com/pippolo84))
- fix(helm): fix values.schema.json types for
bpf.events.default.{rateLimit,burstLimit} (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40578](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40578),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40543](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40543),
[@&#8203;vchirikov](https://redirect.github.com/vchirikov))
- fix: kube-proxy healthz panic on port 10256
([#&#8203;40590](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40590),
[@&#8203;tamilmani1989](https://redirect.github.com/tamilmani1989))
- Helm: Correct seccompProfile for cilium-agent pods (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40578](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40578),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40476](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40476),
[@&#8203;jcpunk](https://redirect.github.com/jcpunk))
- install/kubernetes: fix clustermesh-apiserver extraEnv (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41074](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41074),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;41021](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41021),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- pkg/ipam: fix multi-pool allocator not releasing un-used /32 and /128
CIDRs (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40578](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40578),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40393](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40393),
[@&#8203;alimehrabikoshki](https://redirect.github.com/alimehrabikoshki))
- service: Only set algorithm annotation when requested
([#&#8203;40845](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40845),
[@&#8203;tsotne95](https://redirect.github.com/tsotne95))

**CI Changes:**

- .github/actions: only upload files with features-tested prefix
(Backport PR
[#&#8203;40988](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40988),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40975](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40975),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- .github: Don't overwrite junit results (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41014](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41014),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;39159](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/39159),
[@&#8203;joestringer](https://redirect.github.com/joestringer))
- .github: Run final steps when tests aren't skipped (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41014](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41014),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40180](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40180),
[@&#8203;joestringer](https://redirect.github.com/joestringer))
- \[v1.17] .github: Remove use of cosign attest --recursive
([#&#8203;40699](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40699),
[@&#8203;YutaroHayakawa](https://redirect.github.com/YutaroHayakawa))
- \[v1.17] ci: Revert build\_commits runner to ubuntu-22.04
([#&#8203;40837](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40837),
[@&#8203;rastislavs](https://redirect.github.com/rastislavs))
- builder: Add tparse,junit tooling (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41014](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41014),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;39092](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/39092),
[@&#8203;joestringer](https://redirect.github.com/joestringer))
- Centralize dynamic test ownership configuration (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41014](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41014),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;38045](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/38045),
[@&#8203;joestringer](https://redirect.github.com/joestringer))
- ci: conformance-eks token extended to 8h (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40578](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40578),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40474](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40474),
[@&#8203;mathpl](https://redirect.github.com/mathpl))
- ci: more powerful runners for go linting (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40765](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40765),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40582](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40582),
[@&#8203;mathpl](https://redirect.github.com/mathpl))
- CLI: Attribute tests to codeowners (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41014](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41014),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;37027](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/37027),
[@&#8203;joestringer](https://redirect.github.com/joestringer))
- Emit junit output from BPF unit tests (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41014](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41014),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;39099](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/39099),
[@&#8203;joestringer](https://redirect.github.com/joestringer))
- Fix GKE cluster creation failures when branch names exceed 63-byte
label limit by implementing automatic truncation with hash-based
uniqueness preservation. (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40849](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40849),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40725](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40725),
[@&#8203;pillai-ashwin](https://redirect.github.com/pillai-ashwin))
- Improved test failure attribution on stable branches by using
TESTOWNERS files to route failures to appropriate code quality teams
rather than generic CI infrastructure teams. (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41014](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41014),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40776](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40776),
[@&#8203;pillai-ashwin](https://redirect.github.com/pillai-ashwin))
- pkg/egw: Add missing waitForReconciliationRun (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40578](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40578),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40355](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40355),
[@&#8203;aditighag](https://redirect.github.com/aditighag))
- spire: Fix unreliable test (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40664](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40664),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40561](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40561),
[@&#8203;joestringer](https://redirect.github.com/joestringer))
- tools/testowners: de-duplicate error logs (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41074](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41074),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40778](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40778),
[@&#8203;tklauser](https://redirect.github.com/tklauser))
- Upload junit results for Go unit test runs (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41014](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41014),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;39015](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/39015),
[@&#8203;joestringer](https://redirect.github.com/joestringer))

**Misc Changes:**

- .github/workflows: bump build-images-base timeout to 60 minutes
(Backport PR
[#&#8203;40988](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40988),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40919](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40919),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- .github: fix removal of all files in /mnt (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40849](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40849),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40818](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40818),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- .github: fix upload artifacts for features.json
([#&#8203;41091](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41091),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- .github: remove all contents of /mnt in build images CI (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40849](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40849),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40814](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40814),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- .github: remove stable tag from v1.17 branches
([#&#8203;40772](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40772),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- certloader: Add client variants of watched TLS configs (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40624](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40624),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40399](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40399),
[@&#8203;devodev](https://redirect.github.com/devodev))
- chore(deps): update actions/download-artifact action to v5 (v1.17)
([#&#8203;41058](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41058),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update all github action dependencies (v1.17)
([#&#8203;40746](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40746),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update all github action dependencies (v1.17)
([#&#8203;40905](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40905),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update all github action dependencies (v1.17)
([#&#8203;41059](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41059),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update all-dependencies (v1.17)
([#&#8203;40744](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40744),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update all-dependencies (v1.17)
([#&#8203;40984](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40984),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update dependency cilium/cilium-cli to v0.18.6 (v1.17)
([#&#8203;40902](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40902),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update dependency cilium/little-vm-helper to v0.0.26
(v1.17)
([#&#8203;40646](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40646),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update docker.io/library/golang:1.24.5 docker digest to
[`ef5b4be`](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/commit/ef5b4be)
(v1.17)
([#&#8203;40745](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40745),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update go to v1.24.6 (v1.17)
([#&#8203;40994](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40994),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update quay.io/cilium/cilium-envoy docker tag to
v1.33.6-1753919866-df8077dbd3932edccb59f1c5c70e01f2c1f63741 (v1.17)
([#&#8203;40903](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40903),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update stable lvh-images (v1.17) (patch)
([#&#8203;40673](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40673),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update stable lvh-images (v1.17) (patch)
([#&#8203;40904](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40904),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update stable lvh-images (v1.17) (patch)
([#&#8203;41057](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41057),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- ci: add/change runner labels (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40988](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40988),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40972](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40972),
[@&#8203;Artyop](https://redirect.github.com/Artyop))
- cli: Load code owners dynamically via --code-owners (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41014](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41014),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;38044](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/38044),
[@&#8203;joestringer](https://redirect.github.com/joestringer))
- daemon/test: explicitly wait for identities synchronization (Backport
PR
[#&#8203;40849](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40849),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40811](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40811),
[@&#8203;giorio94](https://redirect.github.com/giorio94))
- doc:monitor: clarify direction traced with default aggregation level
(Backport PR
[#&#8203;40578](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40578),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40398](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40398),
[@&#8203;smagnani96](https://redirect.github.com/smagnani96))
- docs: Add missing IPAM modes to configuration page (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40664](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40664),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40540](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40540),
[@&#8203;RayyanSeliya](https://redirect.github.com/RayyanSeliya))
- docs: Add warning about changing an IP pool (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40664](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40664),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40567](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40567),
[@&#8203;sorrison](https://redirect.github.com/sorrison))
- docs: remove l7 EnableDefaultDeny callout (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40578](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40578),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40441](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40441),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed))
- Fix race condition issues (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40988](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40988),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40949](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40949),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- Makefile: Fix multi codeowner detection (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41014](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41014),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40923](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40923),
[@&#8203;joestringer](https://redirect.github.com/joestringer))
- Makefile: Improve tparse,junit output handling (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41014](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41014),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;39098](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/39098),
[@&#8203;joestringer](https://redirect.github.com/joestringer))
- Support extending cilium-agent volumes as a downstream packager
(Backport PR
[#&#8203;40578](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40578),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40401](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40401),
[@&#8203;devodev](https://redirect.github.com/devodev))
- tools: Move codeowners library from cilium-cli dir (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41014](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41014),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40253](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40253),
[@&#8203;joestringer](https://redirect.github.com/joestringer))

**Other Changes:**

- Fix bug where LocalRedirectPolicy forwarding would break if you enable
`bpf-lb-algorithm-annotation`
([#&#8203;40246](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40246),
[@&#8203;tarabrind](https://redirect.github.com/tarabrind))
- images: update cilium-{runtime,builder}
([#&#8203;40839](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40839),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- install: Update image digests for v1.17.6
([#&#8203;40546](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40546),
[@&#8203;cilium-release-bot](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-release-bot)\[bot])
- vendor: Bump to StateDB v0.4.5
([#&#8203;40850](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40850),
[@&#8203;joamaki](https://redirect.github.com/joamaki))

#### Docker Manifests

##### cilium


`quay.io/cilium/cilium:v1.17.7@&#8203;sha256:b22440f49c61195171aca585c7a57c6a8867271e43a5abc38f2a2f561436ff86`

##### clustermesh-apiserver


`quay.io/cilium/clustermesh-apiserver:v1.17.7@&#8203;sha256:2852feca0d0d936ed0333cd64859f3c5ece2db582ba5fed848f57aff786be4a6`

##### docker-plugin


`quay.io/cilium/docker-plugin:v1.17.7@&#8203;sha256:1b7c8d64f01b309521f13ab2a15239a688b9f545bb97058d383ad3bb55e42e67`

##### hubble-relay


`quay.io/cilium/hubble-relay:v1.17.7@&#8203;sha256:9394312ce65c3c253a8c26a6c292f58736e75c78d1446ecfcd244f1418bebe77`

##### operator-alibabacloud


`quay.io/cilium/operator-alibabacloud:v1.17.7@&#8203;sha256:271e64d6c91019a1a4815b4c78294962bf51c9f764c680fdfacb2adb6e9d0c4d`

##### operator-aws


`quay.io/cilium/operator-aws:v1.17.7@&#8203;sha256:ce37d2ccf921761a4171a507748a06a204592890e6f8cf7d1c354648e098c830`

##### operator-azure


`quay.io/cilium/operator-azure:v1.17.7@&#8203;sha256:9c1db11de2e0cdcaba522c8f396b9a643738f3d3f958fa9b4d62f57bac5daafb`

##### operator-generic


`quay.io/cilium/operator-generic:v1.17.7@&#8203;sha256:a610be2562d0f5a8945a27df7d5681711263ce92e09947e867fc37fc9ab08788`

##### operator


`quay.io/cilium/operator:v1.17.7@&#8203;sha256:122e49fce82df90693f8981e5d9013b6a9248284db17226259e39364ba9a211d`

###
[`v1.17.6`](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.17.6):
1.17.6

[Compare
Source](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/compare/1.17.5...1.17.6)

## Summary of Changes

**Minor Changes:**

- helm: KPR subflag changes (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40222](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40222),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;39721](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/39721),
[@&#8203;brb](https://redirect.github.com/brb))

**Bugfixes:**

- Deny policies are now synced to Envoy so that they can be enforced for
Ingress policies. (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40187](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40187),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;39736](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/39736),
[@&#8203;jrajahalme](https://redirect.github.com/jrajahalme))
- Do not fail the agent startup in case IPv6 support is enabled and the
node does not have an IPv6 address assigned yet (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40205](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40205),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40143](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40143),
[@&#8203;pippolo84](https://redirect.github.com/pippolo84))
- Fix bug preventing a global service from including remote backends, if
the local service has no selector, and the remote one gets removed and
then added again.
([#&#8203;40361](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40361),
[@&#8203;giorio94](https://redirect.github.com/giorio94))
- Fix data race involving DumpReliablyWithCallback map operation.
(Backport PR
[#&#8203;40094](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40094),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;38590](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/38590),
[@&#8203;aditighag](https://redirect.github.com/aditighag))
- Fix IPAM IP release racing condition when IP reassigned back to ENI
(Backport PR
[#&#8203;40289](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40289),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40019](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40019),
[@&#8203;victorcq](https://redirect.github.com/victorcq))
- hubble automatically pick the `hubble-prefer-ipv6` to `true` if ipv4
not enabled (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40289](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40289),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40210](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40210),
[@&#8203;chengjoey](https://redirect.github.com/chengjoey))
- LBIPAM: Fix deletion of CiliumLoadBalancerIPPool with multiple IP
blocks that led to an operator crash (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40094](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40094),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40013](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40013),
[@&#8203;pippolo84](https://redirect.github.com/pippolo84))
- pkg/egressgateway: ensure gateway IP is IPv4 (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40332](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40332),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40209](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40209),
[@&#8203;rgo3](https://redirect.github.com/rgo3))
- policy: fix error handling for selector policy resolution
([#&#8203;40404](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40404),
[@&#8203;fristonio](https://redirect.github.com/fristonio))

**CI Changes:**

- ci: do not run north-south conn disrupt tests for 5.4 kernels
([#&#8203;39443](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/39443),
[@&#8203;ldelossa](https://redirect.github.com/ldelossa))
- ci: fix north-south conn disrupt for 5.4 kernel
([#&#8203;40434](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40434),
[@&#8203;smagnani96](https://redirect.github.com/smagnani96))

**Misc Changes:**

- .github/workflows: remove reviewers if ciliumbot approved PR (Backport
PR
[#&#8203;40094](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40094),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;39989](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/39989),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- auto-approve: add repository as part command (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40094](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40094),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40050](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40050),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- auto-approve: add repository as part command (Backport PR [#&#82

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###
[`v1.18.1`](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.18.1):
1.18.1

[Compare
Source](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/compare/1.18.0...1.18.1)

## Summary of Changes

**Minor Changes:**

- Add `kernel_version`, `endpoint_routes_enabled`, `strict_mode_enabled`
and `kubernetes_version` feature metrics. (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41078](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41078),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;41003](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41003),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- eni: improve logging and speed up ipam reconciliation in case of node
scale-downs (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40852](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40852),
[@&#8203;marseel](https://redirect.github.com/marseel))
- kvstore: Cilium Agent no longer fails health-check if operator is
unavailable (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40920](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40920),
[@&#8203;marseel](https://redirect.github.com/marseel))
- operator: CRDs are updated in series instead of in parallel now during
Cilium upgrades. This should lower the pressure on the k8s control plane
(Backport PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40322](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40322),
[@&#8203;marseel](https://redirect.github.com/marseel))

**Bugfixes:**

- Add missing safeguards to topology-aware routing: use all backends
when no suitable one matching the zone hints are found or a backend
exists without a zone hint.
([#&#8203;41116](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41116),
[@&#8203;joamaki](https://redirect.github.com/joamaki))
- aws/eni: Don't use subnet tags to filter ENIs for GC (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40656](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40656),
[@&#8203;HadrienPatte](https://redirect.github.com/HadrienPatte))
- clustermesh: fix regression possibly causing cross-cluster connections
disruption if the clustermesh-apiserver is restarted at the same time as
Cilium agents. (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40786](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40786),
[@&#8203;giorio94](https://redirect.github.com/giorio94))
- clustermesh: fix regression preventing global services with unnamed
ports from including remote backends (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40865](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40865),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40848](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40848),
[@&#8203;giorio94](https://redirect.github.com/giorio94))
- Fix bug where the presence of a label called "ingress" causes
incorrect assignment of identities to workloads, affecting policy
enforcement. (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40791](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40791),
[@&#8203;christarazi](https://redirect.github.com/christarazi))
- Fix skipping of LoadBalancer services when IPMode is not set to VIP
(KEP-1860) (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40915](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40915),
[@&#8203;joamaki](https://redirect.github.com/joamaki))
-
fix([GH-37724](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/37724)):
Sync policies on startup (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40357](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40357),
[@&#8203;anubhabMajumdar](https://redirect.github.com/anubhabMajumdar))
- fix: create policy snapshot only for sdp (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40785](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40785),
[@&#8203;vipul-21](https://redirect.github.com/vipul-21))
- Fixes a bug where the Cilium agent may segfault when starting.
(Backport PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40824](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40824),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed))
- Fixes an error where the Ingress controller, when run in host network,
created an invalid Service. (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41078](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41078),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40232](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40232),
[@&#8203;rtheobald](https://redirect.github.com/rtheobald))
- helm: Create envoy-config ConfigMap for preflight (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41078](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41078),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40875](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40875),
[@&#8203;sayboras](https://redirect.github.com/sayboras))
- install/kubernetes: fix clustermesh-apiserver extraEnv (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41078](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41078),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;41021](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41021),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- loadbalancer: Fix backend state in REST API (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40780](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40780),
[@&#8203;mhofstetter](https://redirect.github.com/mhofstetter))

**CI Changes:**

- .github/actions: only upload files with features-tested prefix
(Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40975](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40975),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- Add TESTOWNERS file
([#&#8203;40864](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40864),
[@&#8203;joestringer](https://redirect.github.com/joestringer))
- ci: Add Cleanup Disk space step into conformance-runtime (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40973](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40973),
[@&#8203;rastislavs](https://redirect.github.com/rastislavs))
- ci: Fix CI-Fuzz Build failures (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40728](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40728),
[@&#8203;lomackie](https://redirect.github.com/lomackie))
- ci: Reuse connectivity test flags in proxy-embedded (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41078](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41078),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;41036](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41036),
[@&#8203;joestringer](https://redirect.github.com/joestringer))
- endpoint: Avoid unnecessarily logging a warning during endpoint
deletion (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40927](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40927),
[@&#8203;christarazi](https://redirect.github.com/christarazi))
- Fix GKE cluster creation failures when branch names exceed 63-byte
label limit by implementing automatic truncation with hash-based
uniqueness preservation. (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40725](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40725),
[@&#8203;pillai-ashwin](https://redirect.github.com/pillai-ashwin))
- Improved test failure attribution on stable branches by using
TESTOWNERS files to route failures to appropriate code quality teams
rather than generic CI infrastructure teams. (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40776](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40776),
[@&#8203;pillai-ashwin](https://redirect.github.com/pillai-ashwin))
- ipsec: fix privileged tests (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41078](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41078),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;41006](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41006),
[@&#8203;smagnani96](https://redirect.github.com/smagnani96))
- tools/testowners: de-duplicate error logs (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40778](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40778),
[@&#8203;tklauser](https://redirect.github.com/tklauser))
- workflows/ipsec: Fix leak detection for IPv6-only in e2e downgrade
(Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40881](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40881),
[@&#8203;smagnani96](https://redirect.github.com/smagnani96))

**Misc Changes:**

- .github/workflows: bump build-images-base timeout to 60 minutes
(Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40919](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40919),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- .github/workflows: print open file descriptors (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40941](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40941),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- .github: fix removal of all files in /mnt (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40818](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40818),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- .github: remove all contents of /mnt in build images CI (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40814](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40814),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- chore(deps): update actions/download-artifact action to v5 (v1.18)
([#&#8203;41055](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41055),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update all github action dependencies (v1.18)
([#&#8203;40901](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40901),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update all github action dependencies (v1.18)
([#&#8203;41056](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41056),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update all-dependencies (v1.18)
([#&#8203;40900](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40900),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update dependency cilium/cilium-cli to v0.18.6 (v1.18)
([#&#8203;40898](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40898),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update go to v1.24.6 (v1.18)
([#&#8203;40993](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40993),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update stable lvh-images (v1.18) (patch)
([#&#8203;40899](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40899),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update stable lvh-images (v1.18) (patch)
([#&#8203;41054](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41054),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- ci: add/change runner labels (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40972](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40972),
[@&#8203;Artyop](https://redirect.github.com/Artyop))
- daemon/test: explicitly wait for identities synchronization (Backport
PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40811](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40811),
[@&#8203;giorio94](https://redirect.github.com/giorio94))
- docs: Remove references to v1.15 (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41078](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41078),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;41033](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41033),
[@&#8203;joestringer](https://redirect.github.com/joestringer))
- Fix loadbalancer handling of backends with ClusterID set (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41078](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41078),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40968](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40968),
[@&#8203;giorio94](https://redirect.github.com/giorio94))
- Fix race condition issues (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40949](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40949),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- fix(deps): update module github.com/docker/docker to
v28.3.3+incompatible \[security] (v1.18)
([#&#8203;40793](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40793),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- loadbalancer: Raise default retry duration to 1 second (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41078](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41078),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40997](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40997),
[@&#8203;joamaki](https://redirect.github.com/joamaki))
- loadbalancer: Use unique for L3n4Addr (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40633](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40633),
[@&#8203;joamaki](https://redirect.github.com/joamaki))
- Makefile: Fix multi codeowner detection (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40923](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40923),
[@&#8203;joestringer](https://redirect.github.com/joestringer))
- Reduced memory usage by roughly 10% for large EndpointSlices by
sharing identical objects. (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41078](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41078),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40987](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40987),
[@&#8203;joamaki](https://redirect.github.com/joamaki))
- values(.yaml.tmpl): Add Geneve (Class Option) to dsrDispatch paramater
(Backport PR
[#&#8203;40847](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40847),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40625](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40625),
[@&#8203;alagoutte](https://redirect.github.com/alagoutte))
- vendor: Bump to StateDB v0.4.5 (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40979](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40979),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40783](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40783),
[@&#8203;joamaki](https://redirect.github.com/joamaki))

**Other Changes:**

- ci: reduce gke failures
([#&#8203;41070](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41070),
[@&#8203;brlbil](https://redirect.github.com/brlbil))
- install: Update image digests for v1.18.0
([#&#8203;40782](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40782),
[@&#8203;cilium-release-bot](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-release-bot)\[bot])

#### Docker Manifests

##### cilium


`quay.io/cilium/cilium:v1.18.1@&#8203;sha256:65ab17c052d8758b2ad157ce766285e04173722df59bdee1ea6d5fda7149f0e9`

`quay.io/cilium/cilium:stable@sha256:65ab17c052d8758b2ad157ce766285e04173722df59bdee1ea6d5fda7149f0e9`

##### clustermesh-apiserver


`quay.io/cilium/clustermesh-apiserver:v1.18.1@&#8203;sha256:87ab85f33dc7e895ed6257564bf1a255d12399d9e8a075a8fc400910ff94cbeb`

`quay.io/cilium/clustermesh-apiserver:stable@sha256:87ab85f33dc7e895ed6257564bf1a255d12399d9e8a075a8fc400910ff94cbeb`

##### docker-plugin


`quay.io/cilium/docker-plugin:v1.18.1@&#8203;sha256:fb1c6ecb6dc180c97488b8ea45d81275237db14d50e22a1eff3dbfaf9f6f93f3`

`quay.io/cilium/docker-plugin:stable@sha256:fb1c6ecb6dc180c97488b8ea45d81275237db14d50e22a1eff3dbfaf9f6f93f3`

##### hubble-relay


`quay.io/cilium/hubble-relay:v1.18.1@&#8203;sha256:7e2fd4877387c7e112689db7c2b153a4d5c77d125b8d50d472dbe81fc1b139b0`

`quay.io/cilium/hubble-relay:stable@sha256:7e2fd4877387c7e112689db7c2b153a4d5c77d125b8d50d472dbe81fc1b139b0`

##### operator-alibabacloud


`quay.io/cilium/operator-alibabacloud:v1.18.1@&#8203;sha256:e2bdc8236acec0d1ef1552c831a7cd2277624031066fbdfac884a31a4126a32a`

`quay.io/cilium/operator-alibabacloud:stable@sha256:e2bdc8236acec0d1ef1552c831a7cd2277624031066fbdfac884a31a4126a32a`

##### operator-aws


`quay.io/cilium/operator-aws:v1.18.1@&#8203;sha256:de522223ecd73bc06b48042fa59f78f7b3b8f2fff4f8f30a61687516798c5042`

`quay.io/cilium/operator-aws:stable@sha256:de522223ecd73bc06b48042fa59f78f7b3b8f2fff4f8f30a61687516798c5042`

##### operator-azure


`quay.io/cilium/operator-azure:v1.18.1@&#8203;sha256:682058e6734e397e7939e92bb463da3c1b5d8b7a7ce408c3b7a62aadb9ce4f06`

`quay.io/cilium/operator-azure:stable@sha256:682058e6734e397e7939e92bb463da3c1b5d8b7a7ce408c3b7a62aadb9ce4f06`

##### operator-generic


`quay.io/cilium/operator-generic:v1.18.1@&#8203;sha256:97f4553afa443465bdfbc1cc4927c93f16ac5d78e4dd2706736e7395382201bc`

`quay.io/cilium/operator-generic:stable@sha256:97f4553afa443465bdfbc1cc4927c93f16ac5d78e4dd2706736e7395382201bc`

##### operator


`quay.io/cilium/operator:v1.18.1@&#8203;sha256:f3b8d90f945167c1ac4324a0f02a9d381f83076d5ce828fab452014f9335a47e`

`quay.io/cilium/operator:stable@sha256:f3b8d90f945167c1ac4324a0f02a9d381f83076d5ce828fab452014f9335a47e`

###
[`v1.18.0`](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.18.0):
1.18.0

[Compare
Source](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/compare/1.17.7...1.18.0)

We are excited to announce the **[Cilium
1.18.0](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.18.0)**
release!

A total of **3298 new commits** have been contributed to this release by
a growing community of over **955 developers** and over **22,000 GitHub
stars**! ⭐

To keep up to date with all the latest Cilium releases, see
[Announcements](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/discussions/categories/announcements)

Here's what's new in
[v1.18.0](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.18.0):

#### 🚠 Networking

- **⚖️ Load Balancing Redesign**: The service load-balancing
control-plane in the Cilium agent has been redesigned to reduce memory
usage and improve future extensibility of load-balancing features
([cilium/cilium#38469](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38469),
[@&#8203;joamaki](https://redirect.github.com/joamaki))
- **🔌 Virtual Network Devices**: Added support for new virtual network
device configurations such as VXLAN in IPsec (VinE) and IPIP tunnels
([cilium/cilium#37723](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37723),
[@&#8203;ldelossa](https://redirect.github.com/ldelossa);
[cilium/cilium#37346](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37346),
[@&#8203;gyutaeb](https://redirect.github.com/gyutaeb))
- **Ⓜ️ Multiple Egress Gateways**: Egress Gateways policies can now
direct traffic towards multiple gateway nodes
([cilium/cilium#39304](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39304),
[@&#8203;carlos-abad](https://redirect.github.com/carlos-abad))
- **🚦 Ingress Rate Limiting**: The bandwidth manager now supports
ingress rate limiting
([cilium/cilium#36351](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36351),
[@&#8203;l1b0k](https://redirect.github.com/l1b0k))
- **📢 Multi-Device L2 Announcements**: The L2 pod announcement feature
now supports multiple devices
([cilium/cilium#38198](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38198),
[@&#8203;dylandreimerink](https://redirect.github.com/dylandreimerink))
- **🏢 Neighbor Subsystem Rework**: The neighbor subsystem was made more
resilient through a new system that reconciles desired neighbor entries
with the kernel state
([cilium/cilium#39987](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39987),
[@&#8203;dylandreimerink](https://redirect.github.com/dylandreimerink))

#### 🌐 IPv6

- **🚇 Tunneling Underlay**: The tunneling datapath mode now supports
using an IPv6 network underlay, including when configured with IPsec
transparent encryption
([cilium/cilium#38296](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38296),
[cilium/cilium#39497](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39497),
[@&#8203;pchaigno](https://redirect.github.com/pchaigno))
- **💬 Kube Proxy Replacement**: Cilium now implements service
translation when running on an IPv6 underlay
([cilium/cilium#39074](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39074),
[@&#8203;pchaigno](https://redirect.github.com/pchaigno))
- **📋 Delegated IPAM**: When delegating IP address management to a third
party plugin, Cilium now configures IPv6 routes for connectivity if the
plugin supports IPv6
([cilium/cilium#38249](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38249),
[@&#8203;caorui-io](https://redirect.github.com/caorui-io),
[@&#8203;kadevu](https://redirect.github.com/kadevu))
- **📦 IP Fragment Support**: Cilium now processes ordered IPv6 fragments
to apply policy and routing functionality
([cilium/cilium#38110](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38110),
[@&#8203;gentoo-root](https://redirect.github.com/gentoo-root))
- **🚪 Egress gateway policies** can now match IPv6 address ranges
([cilium/cilium#38452](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38452),
[@&#8203;rgo3](https://redirect.github.com/rgo3))

#### 🛡️ Policy & Observability

- **🏷️ Policy Names in Hubble-CLI**: Show the names of (C)CNPs that
allowed or denied traffic when monitoring flows in Hubble
([cilium/cilium#39453](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39453),
[@&#8203;antonipp](https://redirect.github.com/antonipp))
- **📝 Policy Log Fields**: A new free-text log field is added to
policies, which is exposed in Hubble flows for easy correlation and
searching
([cilium/cilium#39902](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39902),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed))
- **🛰️ Encapsulated Traffic Decoding**: Hubble decodes encapsulated
traffic for deeper introspection into traffic flows
([cilium/cilium#37634](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37634),
[@&#8203;kaworu](https://redirect.github.com/kaworu))
- **🏰 ClusterMesh Policy Restriction**: A new option allows the
**cluster** entity to apply only to the local cluster in ClusterMesh
environment
([cilium/cilium#39338](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39338),
[@&#8203;MrFreezeex](https://redirect.github.com/MrFreezeex))
- **✨ Enhanced Policy Dashboard**: The Policy section of the Cilium
Grafana dashboard has been improved to show more relevant graphs,
including policy drops in both directions
([cilium/cilium#36492](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36492),
[cilium/cilium#37445](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37445),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed))

#### 🌅 Performance

- **📊 Scale Test Results**: Cilium implements policies and services up
to 45% faster in higher scale environments (Various;
[@&#8203;marseel](https://redirect.github.com/marseel),
[cilium/cilium#40227](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40227))
- **📦 Image Size Reduction**: Docker image sizes are reduced by 32% on
arm64 architecture images
([cilium/cilium#40005](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40005),
[@&#8203;marseel](https://redirect.github.com/marseel))
- **⚡ Improved Policy Performance**: The DNS proxy can process large
numbers of IPs faster, and the EndpointSelector match implementation has
been optimized
([cilium/cilium#39340](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39340),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed);
[cilium/cilium#40414](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40414),
[@&#8203;marseel](https://redirect.github.com/marseel))
- **🪞 EndpointSlice Mirroring for Multi-Cluster Services**: Clustermesh
mirrors EndpointSlice from the local cluster instead of copying the
Service selectors when using the MCS-API controller
([cilium/cilium#38596](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38596),
[@&#8203;MrFreezeex](https://redirect.github.com/MrFreezeex))
- **🌐 KVStoreMesh Optimization**: Cross-cluster state distribution is
optimized by only synchronizing identities keyed by ID, not by value
([cilium/cilium#36471](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36471),
[@&#8203;HadrienPatte](https://redirect.github.com/HadrienPatte))
- **🧠 Egress Gateway Processing**: Egress gateway policy processing is
significantly improved when matching a large number of pods
([cilium/cilium#37714](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37714),
[@&#8203;giorio94](https://redirect.github.com/giorio94))
- **🗑️ Optimized Garbage Collection for Connection Tracking**: Cilium
leverages batched iterators for CTMap GC
([cilium/cilium#36288](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36288),
[@&#8203;tommyp1ckles](https://redirect.github.com/tommyp1ckles))

#### ⚙️ Operations

- **📈 API Server Connections at Scale**: Improve kube-apiserver
connections behavior at scale through failover and setting better jitter
and backoff configurations
([cilium/cilium#37601](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37601),
[@&#8203;aditighag](https://redirect.github.com/aditighag);
[cilium/cilium#38031](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38031),
[@&#8203;orange30](https://redirect.github.com/orange30);
[cilium/cilium#36648](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36648),
[@&#8203;wedaly](https://redirect.github.com/wedaly))
- **🔄 ConfigMap Synchronization**: New option to automatically
synchronize ConfigMap changes into the agent and report metrics for when
the effective configuration is different from the desired configuration
([cilium/cilium#36510](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36510),
[@&#8203;ovidiutirla](https://redirect.github.com/ovidiutirla))
- **🎓 CRD Promotion to Stable**: Promote **CiliumCIDRGroup**,
**CiliumLoadBalancerIPPool** and all **BGP** CRDs to stable API
([cilium/cilium#38940](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38940),
[@&#8203;christarazi](https://redirect.github.com/christarazi);
[cilium/cilium#39090](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39090),
[@&#8203;pippolo84](https://redirect.github.com/pippolo84);
[cilium/cilium#37765](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37765),
[@&#8203;rastislavs](https://redirect.github.com/rastislavs))
- **⛔ Node Taints Handling**: The cilium-operator Deployment uses a new
default set of taints which avoids deploying to a drained node
([cilium/cilium#40137](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40137),
[@&#8203;Murat](https://redirect.github.com/Murat) Parlakisik)
- **:wood: Migrate to Slog**: Cilium now uses slog as log library for
all components
([cilium/cilium#39664](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39664),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- **🔧 Cilium dependencies** were updated to Kubernetes v1.33, Envoy
v1.34, LLVM 19.1, and CNI v1.1
([cilium/cilium#39124](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39124),
[cilium/cilium#40175](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40175),
[cilium/cilium#39632](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39632),
[@&#8203;sayboras](https://redirect.github.com/sayboras);
[cilium/cilium#38868](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38868),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed))
- **🐧 Minimum Linux Requirements**: The minimum kernel version for this
release series is Linux v5.10 or similar, such as RHEL 8.6
([cilium/cilium#38308](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38308),
[@&#8203;julianwiedmann](https://redirect.github.com/julianwiedmann))

#### 🕸️ Service Mesh & Gateway API

- **⛩️ Gateway API v1.3.0**: Gateway API support is bumped to v1.3.0
([cilium/cilium#39590](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39590),
[@&#8203;sayboras](https://redirect.github.com/sayboras))
- **🔗 Improved GatewayClass Configuration**: The new
CiliumGatewayClassConfig object adds service type validation allows the
configuration of extra settings on a per-GatewayClass level:
LoadBalancerSourceRangesPolicy, ParametersRef fields. This allows Cilium
to reconcile multiple GatewayClasses with different configurations
([cilium/cilium#37792](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37792),
[cilium/cilium#37402](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37402),
[cilium/cilium#40138](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40138),
[@&#8203;sayboras](https://redirect.github.com/sayboras))
- **🚏 Multiple HTTPRoutes**: GAMMA reconciler now supports attaching
multiple HTTPRoutes to the same Service
([cilium/cilium#39922](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39922),
[@&#8203;youngnick](https://redirect.github.com/youngnick))
- **🪄 Route Changes Reconciliation**: Reconcile Gateway API based on all
changes to routes. This allows label updates to trigger reconciliation
correctly, amongst other things
([cilium/cilium#37798](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37798),
[@&#8203;sayboras](https://redirect.github.com/sayboras))

#### 🏷️ IP Address Management

- **☁️ AWS Prefix Delegation**: Prefix delegation on AWS bare metal
instances is now supported natively in Cilium's AWS ENI IPAM mode
([cilium/cilium#39678](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39678),
[@&#8203;41ks](https://redirect.github.com/41ks))
- **🏬 Multi-Pool IPAM with KVStore**: Add support for Multi-Pool IPAM in
external KVstore mode
([cilium/cilium#39638](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39638),
[@&#8203;pippolo84](https://redirect.github.com/pippolo84))
- **🔐 Multi-Pool IPAM with IPSec**: Add support for Multi-Pool IPAM mode
with IPSec transparent encryption in tunnel routing mode
([cilium/cilium#39442](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39442),
[@&#8203;pippolo84](https://redirect.github.com/pippolo84))
- **↪️ Multi-Pool Tunnel Routing**: Add support for tunnel routing in
multi-pool IPAM mode
([cilium/cilium#38483](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38483),
[@&#8203;pippolo84](https://redirect.github.com/pippolo84))

#### 🛣️ BGP

- **📇 Route Aggregation**: Add support for BGP route aggregation in the
control plane
([cilium/cilium#37275](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37275),
[@&#8203;romanspb80](https://redirect.github.com/romanspb80))
- **🎯 Overlapping Selector Matches**: Support overlapping selector
matches in **CiliumBGPAdvertisement** resources
([cilium/cilium#36414](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36414),
[@&#8203;dswaffordcw](https://redirect.github.com/dswaffordcw))
- **🆔 New Router ID generation modes**: Generate router-id based on MAC
addresses, or from an IP address pool
([cilium/cilium#36451](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36451),
[@&#8203;yushoyamaguchi](https://redirect.github.com/yushoyamaguchi);
[cilium/cilium#38300](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38300),
[@&#8203;liyihuang](https://redirect.github.com/liyihuang))

#### 🧑‍💻 Development Experience

- **🧪 Test attribution**: Identify owners of test in GitHub workflow
results to make it easier to connect with other developers on tricky
problems
([cilium/cilium#37027](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37027),
[@&#8203;Joe](https://redirect.github.com/Joe) Stringer)
- **🛏️ Policy REST API**: The Cilium policy API exposed over a local
unix socket is deprecated. The other mechanisms to configure policy via
Kubernetes resources or the local filesystem are preferred
([cilium/cilium#40212](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/40212),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed))
- **🏗️ Feature Deprecation**: Deprecate underused features like Custom
Calls, Recorder API and External Workloads
([cilium/cilium#38480](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38480),
[cilium/cilium#39642](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/39642),
[cilium/cilium#37418](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37418),
[@&#8203;brb](https://redirect.github.com/brb))

#### 🏢 Community

- **❤️ Production Case Studies**: Many end-users have stepped forward to
tell their stories running Cilium in production. If your company wants
to submit their case studies let us know. We would love to hear your
feedback!
- [ByteDance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKPW67D7X10), [Canopus
Networks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXl9xuIxylY), [Corner
Banca](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVPKSefazl4), [DB
Schenker](https://www.cncf.io/case-studies/db-schenker/),
[eBay](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEa4KFf5FzY),
[ECCO](https://www.cncf.io/case-studies/ecco/),
[G-Research](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjSFN34dROQ), [Social
Network
Company](https://cilium.io/blog/2025/04/15/tetragon-social-networking-user-story/),
and [Preferred Networks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7_I4zu6f_M)
- **🇬🇧 London Events**: The community gathered at
[CiliumCon](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/co-located-events/ciliumcon/)
and the [Cilium Developer
Summit](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/dev-summits/tree/main/2025-EU)
in London
- **🇺🇸 Atlanta Events**: Meet us at the upcoming
[CiliumCon](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/co-located-events/ciliumcon/)
and Cilium Developers Summit in Atlanta, Georgia
- **👥 SIG Community Meetings**: [SIG
Community](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/community/tree/main/sig-community)
now meets every first and third Thursday to foster, grow, and sustain
the Cilium open source community

#### 📔 Full CHANGELOG

- Full CHANGELOG.md can be found
[here](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/blob/v1.18.0/CHANGELOG.md).

And finally, we would like to thank you to all contributors of Cilium
that helped directly and indirectly with the project. The success of
Cilium could not happen without all of you. ❤️ :people\_holding\_hands:
❤️

###
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## Summary of Changes

**Minor Changes:**

- Add `kernel_version`, `endpoint_routes_enabled`, `strict_mode_enabled`
and `kubernetes_version` feature metrics. (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41074](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41074),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;41003](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41003),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))

**Bugfixes:**

- Added cleanup of deprecated cilium\_policy\_v1 maps (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40578](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40578),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;39400](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/39400),
[@&#8203;pasteley](https://redirect.github.com/pasteley))
- bgp: Use private fork of the GoBGP to fix BGP MD5 auth (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40578](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40578),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40566](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40566),
[@&#8203;YutaroHayakawa](https://redirect.github.com/YutaroHayakawa))
- bpf/nat: fix header offset while reverse nat-ing icmp6 pkt too big.
(Backport PR
[#&#8203;40387](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40387),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40002](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40002),
[@&#8203;tommyp1ckles](https://redirect.github.com/tommyp1ckles))
- Enable protocol differentiation by default on the operator, matching
the agent
([#&#8203;40643](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40643),
[@&#8203;dylandreimerink](https://redirect.github.com/dylandreimerink))
- Fix a bug where Cilium leaks stale routes when IPsec is enabled.
(Backport PR
[#&#8203;40664](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40664),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40653](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40653),
[@&#8203;pippolo84](https://redirect.github.com/pippolo84))
- fix(helm): fix values.schema.json types for
bpf.events.default.{rateLimit,burstLimit} (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40578](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40578),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40543](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40543),
[@&#8203;vchirikov](https://redirect.github.com/vchirikov))
- fix: kube-proxy healthz panic on port 10256
([#&#8203;40590](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40590),
[@&#8203;tamilmani1989](https://redirect.github.com/tamilmani1989))
- Helm: Correct seccompProfile for cilium-agent pods (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40578](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40578),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40476](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40476),
[@&#8203;jcpunk](https://redirect.github.com/jcpunk))
- install/kubernetes: fix clustermesh-apiserver extraEnv (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41074](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41074),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;41021](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41021),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- pkg/ipam: fix multi-pool allocator not releasing un-used /32 and /128
CIDRs (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40578](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40578),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40393](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40393),
[@&#8203;alimehrabikoshki](https://redirect.github.com/alimehrabikoshki))
- service: Only set algorithm annotation when requested
([#&#8203;40845](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40845),
[@&#8203;tsotne95](https://redirect.github.com/tsotne95))

**CI Changes:**

- .github/actions: only upload files with features-tested prefix
(Backport PR
[#&#8203;40988](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40988),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40975](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40975),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- .github: Don't overwrite junit results (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41014](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41014),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;39159](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/39159),
[@&#8203;joestringer](https://redirect.github.com/joestringer))
- .github: Run final steps when tests aren't skipped (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41014](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41014),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40180](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40180),
[@&#8203;joestringer](https://redirect.github.com/joestringer))
- \[v1.17] .github: Remove use of cosign attest --recursive
([#&#8203;40699](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40699),
[@&#8203;YutaroHayakawa](https://redirect.github.com/YutaroHayakawa))
- \[v1.17] ci: Revert build\_commits runner to ubuntu-22.04
([#&#8203;40837](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40837),
[@&#8203;rastislavs](https://redirect.github.com/rastislavs))
- builder: Add tparse,junit tooling (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41014](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41014),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;39092](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/39092),
[@&#8203;joestringer](https://redirect.github.com/joestringer))
- Centralize dynamic test ownership configuration (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41014](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41014),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;38045](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/38045),
[@&#8203;joestringer](https://redirect.github.com/joestringer))
- ci: conformance-eks token extended to 8h (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40578](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40578),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40474](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40474),
[@&#8203;mathpl](https://redirect.github.com/mathpl))
- ci: more powerful runners for go linting (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40765](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40765),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40582](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40582),
[@&#8203;mathpl](https://redirect.github.com/mathpl))
- CLI: Attribute tests to codeowners (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41014](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41014),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;37027](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/37027),
[@&#8203;joestringer](https://redirect.github.com/joestringer))
- Emit junit output from BPF unit tests (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41014](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41014),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;39099](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/39099),
[@&#8203;joestringer](https://redirect.github.com/joestringer))
- Fix GKE cluster creation failures when branch names exceed 63-byte
label limit by implementing automatic truncation with hash-based
uniqueness preservation. (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40849](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40849),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40725](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40725),
[@&#8203;pillai-ashwin](https://redirect.github.com/pillai-ashwin))
- Improved test failure attribution on stable branches by using
TESTOWNERS files to route failures to appropriate code quality teams
rather than generic CI infrastructure teams. (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41014](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41014),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40776](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40776),
[@&#8203;pillai-ashwin](https://redirect.github.com/pillai-ashwin))
- pkg/egw: Add missing waitForReconciliationRun (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40578](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40578),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40355](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40355),
[@&#8203;aditighag](https://redirect.github.com/aditighag))
- spire: Fix unreliable test (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40664](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40664),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40561](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40561),
[@&#8203;joestringer](https://redirect.github.com/joestringer))
- tools/testowners: de-duplicate error logs (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41074](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41074),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40778](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40778),
[@&#8203;tklauser](https://redirect.github.com/tklauser))
- Upload junit results for Go unit test runs (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41014](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41014),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;39015](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/39015),
[@&#8203;joestringer](https://redirect.github.com/joestringer))

**Misc Changes:**

- .github/workflows: bump build-images-base timeout to 60 minutes
(Backport PR
[#&#8203;40988](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40988),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40919](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40919),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- .github: fix removal of all files in /mnt (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40849](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40849),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40818](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40818),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- .github: fix upload artifacts for features.json
([#&#8203;41091](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41091),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- .github: remove all contents of /mnt in build images CI (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40849](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40849),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40814](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40814),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- .github: remove stable tag from v1.17 branches
([#&#8203;40772](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40772),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- certloader: Add client variants of watched TLS configs (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40624](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40624),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40399](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40399),
[@&#8203;devodev](https://redirect.github.com/devodev))
- chore(deps): update actions/download-artifact action to v5 (v1.17)
([#&#8203;41058](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41058),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update all github action dependencies (v1.17)
([#&#8203;40746](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40746),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update all github action dependencies (v1.17)
([#&#8203;40905](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40905),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update all github action dependencies (v1.17)
([#&#8203;41059](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41059),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update all-dependencies (v1.17)
([#&#8203;40744](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40744),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update all-dependencies (v1.17)
([#&#8203;40984](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40984),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update dependency cilium/cilium-cli to v0.18.6 (v1.17)
([#&#8203;40902](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40902),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update dependency cilium/little-vm-helper to v0.0.26
(v1.17)
([#&#8203;40646](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40646),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update docker.io/library/golang:1.24.5 docker digest to
[`ef5b4be`](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/commit/ef5b4be)
(v1.17)
([#&#8203;40745](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40745),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update go to v1.24.6 (v1.17)
([#&#8203;40994](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40994),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update quay.io/cilium/cilium-envoy docker tag to
v1.33.6-1753919866-df8077dbd3932edccb59f1c5c70e01f2c1f63741 (v1.17)
([#&#8203;40903](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40903),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update stable lvh-images (v1.17) (patch)
([#&#8203;40673](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40673),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update stable lvh-images (v1.17) (patch)
([#&#8203;40904](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40904),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- chore(deps): update stable lvh-images (v1.17) (patch)
([#&#8203;41057](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41057),
[@&#8203;cilium-renovate](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-renovate)\[bot])
- ci: add/change runner labels (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40988](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40988),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40972](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40972),
[@&#8203;Artyop](https://redirect.github.com/Artyop))
- cli: Load code owners dynamically via --code-owners (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41014](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41014),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;38044](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/38044),
[@&#8203;joestringer](https://redirect.github.com/joestringer))
- daemon/test: explicitly wait for identities synchronization (Backport
PR
[#&#8203;40849](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40849),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40811](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40811),
[@&#8203;giorio94](https://redirect.github.com/giorio94))
- doc:monitor: clarify direction traced with default aggregation level
(Backport PR
[#&#8203;40578](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40578),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40398](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40398),
[@&#8203;smagnani96](https://redirect.github.com/smagnani96))
- docs: Add missing IPAM modes to configuration page (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40664](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40664),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40540](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40540),
[@&#8203;RayyanSeliya](https://redirect.github.com/RayyanSeliya))
- docs: Add warning about changing an IP pool (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40664](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40664),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40567](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40567),
[@&#8203;sorrison](https://redirect.github.com/sorrison))
- docs: remove l7 EnableDefaultDeny callout (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40578](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40578),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40441](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40441),
[@&#8203;squeed](https://redirect.github.com/squeed))
- Fix race condition issues (Backport PR
[#&#8203;40988](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40988),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40949](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40949),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- Makefile: Fix multi codeowner detection (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41014](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41014),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40923](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40923),
[@&#8203;joestringer](https://redirect.github.com/joestringer))
- Makefile: Improve tparse,junit output handling (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41014](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41014),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;39098](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/39098),
[@&#8203;joestringer](https://redirect.github.com/joestringer))
- Support extending cilium-agent volumes as a downstream packager
(Backport PR
[#&#8203;40578](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40578),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40401](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40401),
[@&#8203;devodev](https://redirect.github.com/devodev))
- tools: Move codeowners library from cilium-cli dir (Backport PR
[#&#8203;41014](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/41014),
Upstream PR
[#&#8203;40253](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40253),
[@&#8203;joestringer](https://redirect.github.com/joestringer))

**Other Changes:**

- Fix bug where LocalRedirectPolicy forwarding would break if you enable
`bpf-lb-algorithm-annotation`
([#&#8203;40246](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40246),
[@&#8203;tarabrind](https://redirect.github.com/tarabrind))
- images: update cilium-{runtime,builder}
([#&#8203;40839](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40839),
[@&#8203;aanm](https://redirect.github.com/aanm))
- install: Update image digests for v1.17.6
([#&#8203;40546](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40546),
[@&#8203;cilium-release-bot](https://redirect.github.com/cilium-release-bot)\[bot])
- vendor: Bump to StateDB v0.4.5
([#&#8203;40850](https://redirect.github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/40850),
[@&#8203;joamaki](https://redirect.github.com/joamaki))

#### Docker Manifests

##### cilium


`quay.io/cilium/cilium:v1.17.7@&#8203;sha256:b22440f49c61195171aca585c7a57c6a8867271e43a5abc38f2a2f561436ff86`

##### clustermesh-apiserver


`quay.io/cilium/clustermesh-apiserver:v1.17.7@&#8203;sha256:2852feca0d0d936ed0333cd64859f3c5ece2db582ba5fed848f57aff786be4a6`

##### docker-plugin


`quay.io/cilium/docker-plugin:v1.17.7@&#8203;sha256:1b7c8d64f01b309521f13ab2a15239a688b9f545bb97058d383ad3bb55e42e67`

##### hubble-relay


`quay.io/cilium/hubble-relay:v1.17.7@&#8203;sha256:9394312ce65c3c253a8c26a6c292f58736e75c78d1446ecfcd244f1418bebe77`

##### operator-alibabacloud


`quay.io/cilium/operator-alibabacloud:v1.17.7@&#8203;sha256:271e64d6c91019a1a4815b4c78294962bf51c9f764c680fdfacb2adb6e9d0c4d`

##### operator-aws


`quay.io/cilium/operator-aws:v1.17.7@&#8203;sha256:ce37d2ccf921761a4171a507748a06a204592890e6f8cf7d1c354648e098c830`

##### operator-azure


`quay.io/cilium/operator-azure:v1.17.7@&#8203;sha256:9c1db11de2e0cdcaba522c8f396b9a643738f3d3f958fa9b4d62f57bac5daafb`

##### operator-generic


`quay.io/cilium/operator-generic:v1.17.7@&#8203;sha256:a610be2562d0f5a8945a27df7d5681711263ce92e09947e867fc37fc9ab08788`

##### operator


`quay.io/cilium/operator:v1.17.7@&#8203;sha256:122e49fce82df90693f8981e5d9013b6a9248284db17226259e39364ba9a211d`

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