diff --git a/Makefile.rhelver b/Makefile.rhelver
index 8caa0cfb8..25d3b334f 100644
--- a/Makefile.rhelver
+++ b/Makefile.rhelver
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ RHEL_MINOR = 9
 #
 # Use this spot to avoid future merge conflicts.
 # Do not trim this comment.
-RHEL_RELEASE = 717
+RHEL_RELEASE = 718
 
 #
 # ZSTREAM
diff --git a/kernel.changelog b/kernel.changelog
index f0910ff89..f179eec75 100644
--- a/kernel.changelog
+++ b/kernel.changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,17 @@
+* Wed Jun 24 2026 CKI KWF Bot <cki-ci-bot+kwf-gitlab-com@redhat.com> [5.14.0-718.el9]
+- udf: fix partition descriptor append bookkeeping (Ravi Singh) [RHEL-179583] {CVE-2026-45991}
+- KVM: s390: Increase permitted SE header size to 1 MiB (Ramesh Chhetri) [RHEL-185660]
+- ice: fix PTP timestamping broken by SyncE code on E825C (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-152500]
+- ice: fix ice_ptp_read_tx_hwtstamp_status_eth56g (Petr Oros) [RHEL-170635]
+- ice: fix ready bitmap check for non-E822 devices (Petr Oros) [RHEL-170635]
+- ice: perform PHY soft reset for E825C ports at initialization (Petr Oros) [RHEL-170635]
+- ice: fix timestamp interrupt configuration for E825C (Petr Oros) [RHEL-170635]
+- tcp: secure_seq: add back ports to TS offset (Paolo Abeni) [RHEL-152683]
+- net/tcp-md5: Fix MAC comparison to be constant-time (Paolo Abeni) [RHEL-152683]
+- tcp: tcp_tx_timestamp() must look at the rtx queue (Paolo Abeni) [RHEL-152683]
+- ice: fix missing TX timestamps interrupts on E825 devices (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-161661]
+Resolves: RHEL-152500, RHEL-152683, RHEL-161661, RHEL-170635, RHEL-179583, RHEL-185660
+
 * Tue Jun 23 2026 CKI KWF Bot <cki-ci-bot+kwf-gitlab-com@redhat.com> [5.14.0-717.el9]
 - s390/entry: Scrub r12 register on kernel entry (Jan Polensky) [RHEL-174818]
 - selinux: RHEL-only hotfix for execmem regression (Ondrej Mosnacek) [RHEL-185118]
diff --git a/kernel.spec b/kernel.spec
index ae7a28e55..1202d3650 100644
--- a/kernel.spec
+++ b/kernel.spec
@@ -176,15 +176,15 @@ Summary: The Linux kernel
 # define buildid .local
 %define specversion 5.14.0
 %define patchversion 5.14
-%define pkgrelease 717
+%define pkgrelease 718
 %define kversion 5
-%define tarfile_release 5.14.0-717.el9
+%define tarfile_release 5.14.0-718.el9
 # This is needed to do merge window version magic
 %define patchlevel 14
 # This allows pkg_release to have configurable %%{?dist} tag
-%define specrelease 717%{?buildid}%{?dist}
+%define specrelease 718%{?buildid}%{?dist}
 # This defines the kabi tarball version
-%define kabiversion 5.14.0-717.el9
+%define kabiversion 5.14.0-718.el9
 
 #
 # End of genspec.sh variables
@@ -3753,6 +3753,19 @@ fi
 #
 #
 %changelog
+* Wed Jun 24 2026 CKI KWF Bot <cki-ci-bot+kwf-gitlab-com@redhat.com> [5.14.0-718.el9]
+- udf: fix partition descriptor append bookkeeping (Ravi Singh) [RHEL-179583] {CVE-2026-45991}
+- KVM: s390: Increase permitted SE header size to 1 MiB (Ramesh Chhetri) [RHEL-185660]
+- ice: fix PTP timestamping broken by SyncE code on E825C (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-152500]
+- ice: fix ice_ptp_read_tx_hwtstamp_status_eth56g (Petr Oros) [RHEL-170635]
+- ice: fix ready bitmap check for non-E822 devices (Petr Oros) [RHEL-170635]
+- ice: perform PHY soft reset for E825C ports at initialization (Petr Oros) [RHEL-170635]
+- ice: fix timestamp interrupt configuration for E825C (Petr Oros) [RHEL-170635]
+- tcp: secure_seq: add back ports to TS offset (Paolo Abeni) [RHEL-152683]
+- net/tcp-md5: Fix MAC comparison to be constant-time (Paolo Abeni) [RHEL-152683]
+- tcp: tcp_tx_timestamp() must look at the rtx queue (Paolo Abeni) [RHEL-152683]
+- ice: fix missing TX timestamps interrupts on E825 devices (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-161661]
+
 * Tue Jun 23 2026 CKI KWF Bot <cki-ci-bot+kwf-gitlab-com@redhat.com> [5.14.0-717.el9]
 - s390/entry: Scrub r12 register on kernel entry (Jan Polensky) [RHEL-174818]
 - selinux: RHEL-only hotfix for execmem regression (Ondrej Mosnacek) [RHEL-185118]
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 5352449b9..bc081dabc 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-SHA512 (linux-5.14.0-717.el9.tar.xz) = 348b8bfe3c82f7ae4e0d850a7af1a2a4eedabc053c19d17f03110d84641b72d63792618d1f1cdaee02400fedc3c2cba6ca08b73cff84c6d48df922a7228909de
-SHA512 (kernel-abi-stablelists-5.14.0-717.el9.tar.bz2) = 11645ea7e185a7c31c4b0b0c572d6a9e3ad3d8c5b84c807de05cced0064f80c6a6a94cb47ac3ebe398120a34c91be13e2c1295dec2509b6eaf73ad3c363e9632
-SHA512 (kernel-kabi-dw-5.14.0-717.el9.tar.bz2) = 5c1aae31d0e564099e6f36e318819782108c1582f3312aa94616d206abea2b0c776040610d3bec07189bc66a89eac16c98cea0cc8d1e9628bb6e727a8cbef751
+SHA512 (linux-5.14.0-718.el9.tar.xz) = 330d1fdb1a83e25b8bc4178c70cb8f8a9bd75b68db6bb4b96ed07f3860e6c239ea24de5c50bc5382ede38e5d86b20b37bcb935199ddb0fd5b1394129d8a4169d
+SHA512 (kernel-abi-stablelists-5.14.0-718.el9.tar.bz2) = 2050a6f0abe61379b6e09841ef0d3591bb28fb4edc545cc043be317097bf71d90e06cea4bedb3fe589444b7630159763a8013c409b11744f1a204ee6b4864a14
+SHA512 (kernel-kabi-dw-5.14.0-718.el9.tar.bz2) = 5bca821744a2565aff42f8b5d75d9e00f6137d5578e8b703d1fb78f7aee4d976a94f209b43663a197464e6d925d8ce496b0c5f570532130a2b30e9fe73e2e4c6