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Summary

• Backport of the 18-stable bump to the 18.0-fr7 branch (clean cherry-pick)
• Bump OPERATOR_BASE_IMAGE in the Dockerfile from registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/ubi-minimal:9.6 to registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/ubi-minimal:9.8

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