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From: Johan Wikman <johan.wikman@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2021 08:15:44 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] 2.4.18 Add release notes and update change log

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 For more details, please refer to:
 
+* [MariaDB MaxScale 2.4.18 Release Notes](Release-Notes/MaxScale-2.4.18-Release-Notes.md)
 * [MariaDB MaxScale 2.4.17 Release Notes](Release-Notes/MaxScale-2.4.17-Release-Notes.md)
 * [MariaDB MaxScale 2.4.16 Release Notes](Release-Notes/MaxScale-2.4.16-Release-Notes.md)
 * [MariaDB MaxScale 2.4.15 Release Notes](Release-Notes/MaxScale-2.4.15-Release-Notes.md)
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+# MariaDB MaxScale 2.4.18 Release Notes
+
+Release 2.4.18 is a GA release.
+
+This document describes the changes in release 2.4.18, when compared to the
+previous release in the same series.
+
+If you are upgrading from an older major version of MaxScale, please read the
+[upgrading document](../Upgrading/Upgrading-To-MaxScale-2.4.md) for
+this MaxScale version.
+
+For any problems you encounter, please consider submitting a bug
+report on [our Jira](https://jira.mariadb.org/projects/MXS).
+
+## Bug fixes
+
+* [MXS-3800](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-3800) Not enough information in server state change messages
+* [MXS-3609](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-3609) Some statistics use 32-bit integers
+* [MXS-3582](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-3582) [readwritesplit] Failed to execute session command
+* [MXS-3538](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-3538) Removal of authenticator_options is not documented in upgrade documents
+* [MXS-3535](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-3535) user variable is not collected if it's in join clause
+* [MXS-3533](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-3533) MaxScale doesn't advertise the SESSION_TRACK capability
+* [MXS-3529](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-3529) Maxscale is not compatible with the latest cmake 3.20
+* [MXS-3487](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-3487) Old master connection is left open after transaction migration
+* [MXS-3415](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-3415) --export-config uses default file permissions
+* [MXS-3114](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-3114) Listener creation via REST API with sockets doesn't work
+
+## Known Issues and Limitations
+
+There are some limitations and known issues within this version of MaxScale.
+For more information, please refer to the [Limitations](../About/Limitations.md) document.
+
+## Packaging
+
+RPM and Debian packages are provided for supported the Linux distributions.
+
+Packages can be downloaded [here](https://mariadb.com/downloads/#mariadb_platform-mariadb_maxscale).
+
+## Source Code
+
+The source code of MaxScale is tagged at GitHub with a tag, which is identical
+with the version of MaxScale. For instance, the tag of version X.Y.Z of MaxScale
+is `maxscale-X.Y.Z`. Further, the default branch is always the latest GA version
+of MaxScale.
+
+The source code is available [here](https://github.com/mariadb-corporation/MaxScale).