1.18.6 (February 22, 2022)
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Incompatible Behavior Changes
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Minor Behavior Changes
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Bug Fixes
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*Changes expected to improve the state of the world and are unlikely to have negative effects*

* data plane: fix crash when internal redirect selects a route configured with direct response or redirect actions.
* jwt_authn: fixed the crash when a CONNECT request is sent to JWT filter configured with regex match on the Host header.
* tcp_proxy: fix a crash that occurs when configured for :ref:`upstream tunneling <envoy_v3_api_field_extensions.filters.network.tcp_proxy.v3.TcpProxy.tunneling_config>` and the downstream connection disconnects while the the upstream connection or http/2 stream is still being established.

Removed Config or Runtime
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New Features
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Deprecated
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