th Ambient mode! We would like to thank the entire Istio community for helping get the 1.18.0 release published. We would like to thank the Release Managers for this release, <code>Paul Merrison</code> from Tetrate, <code>Kalya Subramanian</code> from Microsoft and <code>Xiaopeng Han</code> from DaoCloud. The release managers would specially like to thank the Test & Release WG lead Eric Van Norman (IBM) for his help and guidance throughout the release cycle. We would also like to thank the maintainers of th