Managed Anthos Service Mesh 1.18 is rolling out in the rapid channel

## Announcement Managed Anthos Service Mesh 1.18 **is rolling out** in the rapid channel. See [Managed Anthos Service Mesh release channels](https://cloud.google.com/service-mesh/docs/managed/select-a-release-channel) for more information. ## Breaking **If you use Gateway API Automated Deployment**, note the following breaking change. With Anthos Service Mesh v1.18 rolled out to the rapid channel, upgrading gateways no longer requires restarting the Pods to trigger a re-injection. Instead, gateways are updated, via a rolling restart, when their revision changes. For more information, see [Istio's release note](https://istio.io/latest/news/releases/1.18.x/announcing-1.18/upgrade-notes/#gateway-api-automated-deployment-changes).