v4.8.18

What's Changed

• PE-8049 Add RHEL STIG support by @vipsharm in #549
• PE-8227 rhel9 stig cluster is not coming up with kubeadm provider by @vipsharm in #553
• PE-8229: update to kairos v4.0.1 and kairos-init v0.7.1 by @abhinavnagaraj in #555
• Revert "PE-8229: update to kairos v4.0.1 and kairos-init v0.7.1" by @abhinavnagaraj in #556
• PE-8049 PE-8281 Remove default firewall rules by @vipsharm in #558
• PE-8292 PE-8293 Adding missing packages for RHEL STIG image. by @vipsharm in #561
• Adding STIG compliance controls to spectro fips builds (#564) by @roshanirathi in #565
• fix: harden ubuntu-fips Dockerfile and cleanup non-FIPS kernels by @nianyush in #566
• [rc-4.8] Add new CIS hardening controls (#552) by @github-actions[bot] in #571
• [rc-4.8] PE-8326 Address High issues in STIG compliance report. (#568) by @github-actions[bot] in #572
• [rc-4.8] PE-8352 Fix the rp_filter that causes issue with vxlan or overlay network especially in k8s clusters. (#569) by @github-actions[bot] in #573
• K8s version changes -pxke,k3s - 1.32.13,1.33.9,1.34.5,1.35.2 (#574) by @vishwanaths in #578

Full Changelog: v4.8.10...v4.8.18