Release notes for 8.18.7 (#18156)

Author: github-actions[bot]

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 This section summarizes the changes in the following releases:
 
+* <<logstash-8-18-7,Logstash 8.18.7>>
 * <<logstash-8-18-6,Logstash 8.18.6>>
 * <<logstash-8-18-5,Logstash 8.18.5>>
 * <<logstash-8-18-4,Logstash 8.18.4>>
@@ -93,6 +94,36 @@ This section summarizes the changes in the following releases:
 * <<logstash-8-0-0-alpha2,Logstash 8.0.0-alpha2>>
 * <<logstash-8-0-0-alpha1,Logstash 8.0.0-alpha1>>
 
+[[logstash-8-18-7]]
+=== Logstash 8.18.7 Release Notes
+
+[[notable-8-18-7]]
+==== Notable issues fixed
+
+* Improve logstash release artifacts file metadata: mtime is preserved when buiilding tar archives https://github.com/elastic/logstash/pull/18109[#18109]
+
+* Gauge type metrics, such as current and peak connection counts of Elastic Agent, are now available in the `_node/stats` API response when the `vertices=true` parameter is included. These metrics are particularly useful for monitoring {ls} plugin activity on the {ls} Integration dashboards. https://github.com/elastic/logstash/pull/18087[#18087]
+
+[[plugins-8-18-7]]
+==== Plugins
+
+*Beats Input - 6.9.4*
+
+* Upgrade netty to 4.1.126 https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-input-beats/pull/518[#518]
+
+*Http Input - 3.10.3*
+
+* Upgrade netty to 4.1.126 https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-input-http/pull/199[#199]
+
+*Tcp Input - 6.4.7*
+
+* Upgrade netty to 4.1.126 https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-input-tcp/pull/236[#236]
+
+*Kafka Integration - 11.6.4*
+
+* Display exception chain comes from kafka client https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-integration-kafka/pull/200[#200]
+
+
 [[logstash-8-18-6]]
 === Logstash 8.18.6 Release Notes