Merge pull request #873 from ceph/wip-yuriw-18.2.6-release.notes.io-main

18.2.6 Release notes

Reviewed-by: Anthony D'Atri <anthony.datri@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Adam King adking@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Laura Flores <lflores@redhat.com>

Author: yuriw

src/en/news/blog/2025/v18-2-6-reef-released/index.md

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+---
+title: "v18.2.6 Reef released"
+date: "2025-04-21"
+author: "Yuri Weinstein"
+tags:
+  - "release"
+  - "reef"
+---
+
+This is the sixth backport (hotfix) release in the Reef series. We recommend that all users update to this release.
+
+## Notable Changes
+
+- ceph-volume: A bug related to cryptsetup version handling has been fixed.
+
+  Related tracker: https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/66393
+
+- RADOS: A bug related to IPv6 support is now fixed.
+
+  Related tracker: https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/67517
+
+## Changelog
+
+- ceph-volume: fix regex usage in `set_dmcrypt_no_workqueue` ([pr#62791](https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/62791), Matt1360)
+
+- common/pick_address: Add IPv6 support to `is_addr_in_subnet` ([pr#62814](https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/62814), rzarzynski)