What's Changed

Minor Changes:

• cilium-cli/sysdump: relax extra-label-selectors to target all namespaces (cilium/cilium#37715, @giorio94)
• Extend cilium-cli connectivity perf to allow testing egress gateway performance (cilium/cilium#37748, @giorio94)

CI Changes:

• Add explicit IPv6 testing to PodToService cilium-cli connectivity test (cilium/cilium#37544, @saiaunghlyanhtet)
• cilium-cli/connectivity: Fix output for LRP tests (cilium/cilium#37893, @pchaigno)
• cilium-cli/connectivity: only check container restarts on v1.17+ (cilium/cilium#37823, @giorio94)
• cli: Attribute test failures outside of action failures (cilium/cilium#37757, @joestringer)
• cli: Clean up Makefile (cilium/cilium#37911, @michi-covalent)
• cli: connectivity: Log tcpdump cmd on error (cilium/cilium#37822, @jschwinger233)
• connectivity tests: keep tcpdump alive by printing to stdout (cilium/cilium#37984, @asauber)
• Egress Gateway performance testing (cilium/cilium#37753, @giorio94)
• Fix egress device computation in cli connectivity pod-to-pod-encryption-v2 tests for AWS chaining mode. (cilium/cilium#37680, @smagnani96)
• Miscellaneous improvements to the Egress Gateway scale test (cilium/cilium#37611, @giorio94)

Misc Changes:

• Add sloglint and fix issues (cilium/cilium#37851, @aanm)
• bpf: tolerate dropped ICMPv6 messages with ICMPv6 payload (cilium/cilium#38068, @julianwiedmann)
• chore(deps): update docker.io/library/golang:1.24.0 docker digest to 3f74443 (main) (cilium/cilium#37938, @cilium-renovate[bot])
• cilium-cli: Ignore k8s client network error warning (cilium/cilium#37773, @jrajahalme)
• cilium-cli: Only use --curl-parallel when expecting success (cilium/cilium#37803, @jrajahalme)
• cli: Added parameter to print used images (cilium/cilium#37390, @PhilipSchmid)
• cli: Support filtering --log-code-owners (cilium/cilium#37905, @joestringer)
• k8s: move portforward functionality to separate sub-package (cilium/cilium#38060, @tklauser)
• Update connectivity tests to correctly detect TLS Interception (cilium/cilium#37796, @youngnick)
• chore(deps): update dependency go to v1.24.1 by @renovate in #2969
• Update stable release to v0.18.1 by @michi-covalent in #2968
• Prepare for v0.18.2 release by @michi-covalent in #2964