Release v0.18.3

Summary of Changes

Announcement

Cilium CLI releases are now available as Docker images here: https://quay.io/repository/cilium/cilium-cli?tab=tags&tag=latest

Minor Changes:

• Add support to capture kernel profiles during performance testing (cilium/cilium#38402, @giorio94)
• Make Cilium CLI performance tests not depend on Cilium (cilium/cilium#38245, @giorio94)
• Reject IPSec key rotation with mismatching key lengths to prevent IPv6 disruptions. (cilium/cilium#37936, @smagnani96)

Bugfixes:

• cilium-cli: Fix logger busy loop (cilium/cilium#38199, @jrajahalme)

CI Changes:

• Add parallel streams throughput tests, and enable them in the EGW workflow (cilium/cilium#38027, @giorio94)
• ci: use custom kubeconfig for cilium-cli cloud provider tests (cilium/cilium#37970, @marseel)
• cilium-cli: Add strict-mode-test v2 (cilium/cilium#38566, @pippolo84)
• cilium-cli: connectivity: clean up any leftover egw routes. (cilium/cilium#36651, @tommyp1ckles)
• cilium-cli: extend no-interrupted-connections to test Egress Gateway (cilium/cilium#38193, @ysksuzuki)
• cilium-cli: run IPv6 test with skipRedirectFromBackend=true on >=v1.17.3 (cilium/cilium#38630, @ysksuzuki)
• cilium-cli: Use distroless (cilium/cilium#38189, @michi-covalent)
• cli: Reduce the flood of the terminal with logs on failure during tests (cilium/cilium#38240, @roman-kiselenko)
• cli: reverse finalizers of connectivity test (cilium/cilium#38232, @marseel)
• connectivity: Add test for source egress in Ingress (cilium/cilium#38053, @sayboras)
• test: Add negative test case for TLS SNI + Inception (cilium/cilium#38194, @sayboras)
• workflows/e2e: Cover IPv6-only (cilium/cilium#38235, @pchaigno)

Misc Changes:

• chore(deps): update all-dependencies (main) (cilium/cilium#38603, @cilium-renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update docker.io/library/golang:1.24.1 docker digest to 52ff1b3 (main) (cilium/cilium#38421, @cilium-renovate[bot])
• chore(deps): update go to v1.24.1 (main) (cilium/cilium#38092, @cilium-renovate[bot])
• cilium-cli: add IPv6 connectivity test for LocalRedirectPolicy (cilium/cilium#37192, @saiaunghlyanhtet)
• cilium-cli: add test owners as part of junit files (cilium/cilium#38269, @aanm)
• cilium-cli: Allow running outside the Cilium tree (cilium/cilium#38133, @joestringer)
• cli: Load code owners dynamically via --code-owners (cilium/cilium#38044, @joestringer)
• Enable new testifylint checks, and mechanically fix reported issues (cilium/cilium#38485, @giorio94)
• Fix cli disconnect error message (cilium/cilium#38545, @samsonkolge)
• Modernize Go map and slice operations (cilium/cilium#38126, @tklauser)
• Standardize hubble and cilium CLIs makefile (cilium/cilium#37716, @HadrienPatte)
• Test IPv4 and IPv6 explicitly in PodToWorld and PodToWorld2 connectivity tests (cilium/cilium#37435, @gentoo-root)
• Use slices.Sorted(maps.Keys(...)) to get sorted list of map keys (cilium/cilium#38519, @tklauser)
• Use more efficient SplitSeq instead of Split (cilium/cilium#38157, @tklauser)
• Update stable release to v0.18.2 by @michi-covalent in #2972
• chore(deps): update golang docker tag to v1.24.1 by @renovate in #2971
• chore(deps): update docker.io/library/golang docker tag to v1.24.1 by @renovate in #2970
• chore(deps): update golangci/golangci-lint docker tag to v1.64.7 by @renovate in #2974
• action: Only install a single version by @joestringer in #2973
• chore(deps): update golangci/golangci-lint-action action to v6.5.1 by @renovate in #2975
• chore(deps): update golangci/golangci-lint-action action to v6.5.2 by @renovate in #2979
• chore(deps): update golangci/golangci-lint docker tag to v1.64.8 by @renovate in #2978
• chore(deps): update dependency cilium/cilium to v1.16.8 by @renovate in #2977
• chore(deps): update docker/login-action action to v3.4.0 by @renovate in #2976
• github: Remove multicluster.yaml by @michi-covalent in #2983
• chore(deps): update actions/upload-artifact action to v4.6.2 by @renovate in #2981
• Simplify Dockerfile and clean up docker image workflow by @michi-covalent in #2980
• chore(deps): update docker/login-action action to v3.4.0 by @renovate in #2982
• chore(deps): update golangci/golangci-lint{-action} by @michi-covalent in #2988
• Optimize image layers by @marcofranssen in #2782
• chore(deps): update golangci/golangci-lint docker tag to v2.0.2 by @renovate in #2989
• chore(deps): update docker.io/library/golang:1.24.1 docker digest to 52ff1b3 by @renovate in #2990
• chore(deps): update gcr.io/distroless/static:latest docker digest to 3d0f463 by @renovate in #2991
• chore(deps): update golang docker tag to v1.24.2 by @renovate in #2995
• chore(deps): update cilium (minor) by @renovate in #2924
• chore(deps): update azure/login action to v2.3.0 by @renovate in #2998
• chore(deps): update cilium/cilium digest to 67fbabc by @renovate in #3000
• chore(deps): update cilium/cilium digest to 20f0e00 by @renovate in #3002
• Prepare for v0.18.3 release by @michi-covalent in #2993

Full Changelog: v0.18.2...v0.18.3