Upstream released a new bug fixes only release targeting stable.

It contains multiple bug fixes, detailed in the NEWS file, which solve
actual reliability issues.
Future upstream releases with security updates will be based on this
release.

git diff debian/3.1.7-0+deb13u1..debian/bird3/trixie ':(exclude).gitlab-ci.yml' ':(exclude)gitlab/'

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 9564233bf..bc34ca601 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+Version 3.1.8 (2026-07-30)
+  o BGP: Fix stack buffer overflow in Flowspec NLRI decoder
+  o BGP: Minor improvements in Flowspec parsing
+  o BGP: Fix minor issues with send hold timer
+  o Fix null byte handling in authentication keys
+  o Pipe, L3VPN: Fix hostentry stripping
+  o Filter: Fix zero arg handling
+  o Logging: Fix use-after-free on failed rotation
+  o CLI: Fix crashes in show route
+  o Allocator: Pre-fill hot pages when entering RCU critical section
+  o Fix obstacle cleanup
+  o Update bird-users mailing list links
+
 Version 3.1.7 (2026-06-09)
   o BGP: Fix parsing labelled NLRIs with no next hop
   o BGP: Fix cork behavior in collision with graceful restart
diff --git a/README b/README
index 75a4281f1..9edadb033 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -71,8 +71,8 @@ around to see what's going to develop, feel free to subscribe to the BIRD
 users mailing list bird-users@network.cz, just send `subscribe' to
 bird-request@network.cz.