chore(deps): update gitlab/gitlab-runner docker tag to v18

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Type	Update	Change
gitlab/gitlab-runner (changelog)	final	major	v17.11.1 -> v18.2.0
gitlab/gitlab-runner (changelog)	final	major	v17.6.0 -> v18.2.0

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Release Notes

gitlab-org/gitlab-runner (gitlab/gitlab-runner)

v18.2.0

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New features

• Add reference to z/OS on the main runner install page !5647
• Thread job request correlation ID to git operations !5653
• Add functionality to retrieve secrets from AWS SecretsManager !5587 (Markus Siebert @​m-s-db)
• Update docs on how to use env variables for S3 cache access !5648
• Improve runner_name metric label coverage !5609 (Josh Smith @​jsmith25)
• Log usage of deault image for Docker and K8S executors !5688

Bug fixes

• Tighten cache key sanitation !5719
• Add troubleshooting guide for GCS workload identity !5651
• Skip pre and post checkout hooks for empty !5677
• Docs: Fix protocol_port default for SSH !5701
• Revert MRs 5531 and 5676 !5715
• Reimplement ShortenToken !5681
• Put the fips binary in the fips runner image !5669
• Set helper_image_flavor to ubi-fips when fips mode is enabled !5698
• Ensure BuildErrors have FailureReason !5676
• Fix kubernetes executor helper image override log !5655 (Ricard Bejarano @​ricardbejarano)
• Add -depth option to find -exec rm invocations !5692

Maintenance

• Add known SELinux issue regarding tmp and pip to the Podman docs !5661
• Switch jobs to Kubernetes !5631
• Updated the documents !5596 (Jithin Vijayan @​jithin.vijayan)
• Update docker machine versions !5672
• Add autoscaler IP address logging options !5519 (Brayden White @​bwhite117)
• Docs: Improve prometheus scraping metrics docs including Operator !5657
• Update default ruby version in examples !5693
• Add aardvark-dns bug notice to podman guide !5689 (Felix @​f.preuschoff)
• Update region from us-central-1 to eu-central-1 !5713
• Run fewer vale lint rules on i18n (translation) docs MRs !5699
• Add additonal info about SHA-pinned images !5700
• Bump golang to 1.24.4 !5668
• chore: refactor TestAttachPodNotRunning !5650 (Muhammad Daffa Dinaya @​mdaffad)
• Update access a private registry from kubernetes executor !5622
• Add configure runner on OCI to the index page !5649
• Clean up runner docs !5697
• Fix OS version package support docs !5703
• Add .markdownlint-cli2.yaml for doc-locale !5690
• Fix this test !5682
• Update mockery to latest version 3.3.4 and generate mocks !5646
• Remove outdated information !5691
• Update file _index.md !5665
• Update SLSA build type documentation !5639
• Document tarzstd as an argument for CACHE_COMPRESSION_FORMAT !5673
• Clarify documentation on reading S3 credentials from the environment !5671
• Add Kubernetes executors docs for helper container memory sizing !5659
• Runner doc restructuring: Revamp the admin section index page !5678
• Add formatting target for easy fixes with golangci-lint !5658
• Add overprovisioning note, fix typos !5656
• Refactor gitlab client request job tests to table tests !5666
• Fix indent in config.toml example. !5667 (Mathieu Gouin @​mathieugouin)
• Update PowerShell UTF8 integration test !5493 (Guillaume Chauvel @​guillaume.chauvel)
• Update step-runner version to 0.13.0 !5705
• Fix docs pipelines for forks !5664
• Small typo fixes !5652

v18.1.2

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GitLab Runner documentation can be found at https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/.

v18.1.1

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GitLab Runner documentation can be found at https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/.

v18.1.0

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New features

• Added safety checks for nil sessions and empty endpoints !5515 (Zubeen @​syedzubeen)
• Log a different message for policy jobs with highest precedence !5628
• Add adaptive request concurrency !5546
• Allow to install/manipulate the gitlab-runner service as a user service (systemd) !5534 (Tiago Teixeira @​tiago.teixeira.erx)
• Bump base images to allow native clone to work !5561
• Support user as integer for Docker/Kubernetes executor_opts !5552
• Thread job request correlation ID to git operations !5653
• make preemptive mode configurable !5565 (Pascal Sochacki @​pascal.sochacki)
• Add queue_size and queue_depth metrics !5592
• Log policy job information !5591
• Add more request_concurrency related metrics !5558
• Enable powershell native clone !5577 (Guillaume Chauvel @​guillaume.chauvel)
• Add support for Overlay Volume Mounts when Podman is used with Docker Executor !5522 (Napuu @​napuu)

Bug fixes

• Stop following symlinks when archiving documents !5543
• Docker+autoscaler: Properly clean up when a job times out or is cancelled !5593
• Fix AWS GovCloud with AWS S3 cache !5613
• Fix final job duration handling !5583
• Document DinD DNS behavior with network-per-build feature !5611
• Run git config cleanup before creating the template dir !5598
• Fix authentication towards HTTP docker registries !5329 (François HORTA @​fhorta1)
• Switch the default for FF_GIT_URLS_WITHOUT_TOKENS back to false !5572
• Handle the new glrtr- prefix !5580

Maintenance

• Update golang.org/x/net to fix CVE-2025-22872 !5594
• Added missing commas !5579
• Docker executor image clarification and macOS virtualization info !5571 (Charles Uneze @​network-charles)
• Fix rules for the unit test job !5618
• Tidy runner_wrapper/api !5604
• Limit Unit test job to only MR pipelines for forks !5608
• Making timeout to acquire a new instance configurable within gitlab-runner !5563 (Moritz Scheve @​schevmo)
• Remove outdated information !5620
• Add correlation_id to request logs !5615
• Bump base-images to 0.0.18 !5633
• Fix pipelines for forks !5607
• Update redirected links !5605
• Improve pipelines for community, fork, docs MRs !5576
• Fix protoc binary download for macos !5570
• Document how to install GitLab Runner on z/OS manually !5641
• Upgrade Go to v1.24.3 !5562
• Clean up stray whitespace !5585
• Remove kaniko references in GitLab Runner docs !5560
• Update step-runner dependency version to 0.11.0 !5645
• Update dates in examples !5621
• Clean up tables in misc runner docs !5589
• Docs: more bold cleanup !5586
• Document how to set environment variables in GitLab Runner Helm chart !5559
• Restrict danger-review to canonical GitLab forks !5640
• Push GitLab Documentation Translations Upstream [2025-06-09] !5630
• docs: Add custom executor "shell" property !5578 (Guillaume Chauvel @​guillaume.chauvel)
• Remove randomness of TestProcessRunner_BuildLimit failures !5588
• Run Hugo build test on the correct Docs branch !5545
• Install local dev tools and dependency binaries in on go !5632
• chore: install tool binaries in tmp bin !5629
• docs: Remove a line that is not accurate to the current usages of GRIT !5601
• Config options refactor !5373
• Move internal docs into development directory !5595
• Update CHANGELOG to take in account 17.10.x to 18.0.x releases !5643
• Update docker machine in docs !5603
• Remove outdated mention !5582
• Added Experimental Status !5602
• Remove outdated content !5597
• Use mockery constructors in tests !5581
• Auto-format all remaining runner tables !5584
• Update the cntlm link to the new fork !5556 (Dan Fredell @​DFredell)
• Update docker-machine version in docs !5617

v18.0.4

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GitLab Runner documentation can be found at https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/.

v18.0.3

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Bug fixes

• Fix AWS GovCloud with AWS S3 cache !5613
• Run Git config cleanup before creating the template dir !5598

Maintenance

• Remove randomness of TestProcessRunner_BuildLimit failures !5588

v18.0.2

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Bug fixes

• Handle the new glrtr- prefix !5580
• Fix final job duration handling !5583

v18.0.1

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Bug fixes

• Switch the default for FF_Git_URLS_WITHOUT_TOKENS back to false !5572

v18.0.0

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New features

• Add exponential backoff to execute stage retries !4517
• Add support for uid:gid format for Kubernetes executor options !5540
• Add adaptive request concurrency !5546
• Add more request_concurrency related metrics !5558
• Suppress unnecessary warnings when Kubernetes user values are empty !5551
• Shells: Implement the use of Git-clone(1) again !5010
• Adding How To Configure PVC Cache !5536
• Improve runner build failure reasons !5531

Bug fixes

• Add support for submodules in the exec command !75 (Lucas @​fresskoma)
• Reimplement pull-policy validation !5514
• Update fleeting dependency !5535
• Add Cloud provider error message details for cache upload failures to cloud storage targets !5527

Maintenance

• FF_Git_URLS_WITHOUT_TOKENS defaults to true !5525
• Wait for MR image before starting runner incept !5528
• Remove outdated mentions !5510
• Update markdownlint for JP Docs & Push Translations !5547
• Remove GitHub.com/Docker/machine library dependency !5554
• Promote FF_RETRIEVE_POD_WARNING_EVENTS to a config print_pod_warning_events !5377
• Deprecate ServiceAccountName !5523
• Create Japanese documentation directory !5513
• Bump base images to address CVE-2024-8176 !5518
• Retry packagecloud 504 errors !5520
• Remove outdated registration in test script !5511
• Use Hugo 0.145.0 for docs builds !5521
• Sync vale rules from main repo !5549
• Remove section referring to unapplied breaking change !5529
• Add recommendation to read Readme for plugin before installing !5530
• Add troubleshooting section for AZRebalance issue !5494
• Upgrade taskscaler dependency with updated heartbeat functionality !5553
• Update GPG key expiry date !5539
• Add instructions for installing prebuilt images while using binaries !5508
• Add note regarding support for only Azure VMSS Uniform Orchestration mode !5526
• Remove "Autoscaler algorithm and parameters" from the GitLab Runner instance group autoscaler page !5517
• Add argo_translation.yml for continuous translation process !5541
• Clean up tables in runner docs !5548
• Make dependant Docker images optional for runner incept !5538

v17.11.3

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Bug fixes

• Fix AWS GovCloud with AWS S3 cache !5613

v17.11.2

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Bug fixes

• Handle the new glrtr- prefix !5580
• Fix final job duration handling !5583

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