# Cilium v1.18.15

> Networking & Messaging · 2026-10-15

A maintenance release with correctness fixes and dependency and image updates. It also includes security-related dependency updates, with no newly announced operator configuration changes.

## Action needed
- **[security]** The `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace/otlptracehttp` module version
  - The `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace/otlptracehttp` module is updated to `v1.45.0` in this release.
- **[security]** The `golang.org/x/net` module version
  - The `golang.org/x/net` module is updated to `v0.60.0` in this release.
- **[security]** Dependency security updates
  - Dependency security updates are included in this release.

## Other recorded changes
- 21 (value_changed 17, defect_corrected 4)

[Full analysis](https://ratatosk.io/en/releases/cilium/v1.18.15)

[Original release notes](https://github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.18.15)