From b90339e9c4d47de9cc43a8b8c7fc5c29b063ec3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "release-please[bot]"
 <55107282+release-please[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2026 08:22:06 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] chore(main): release google-cloud-storage 3.18.0

---
 .release-please-individual-manifest.json                 | 2 +-
 librarian.yaml                                           | 2 +-
 packages/google-cloud-storage/CHANGELOG.md               | 9 +++++++++
 .../google/cloud/_storage/gapic_version.py               | 2 +-
 .../google/cloud/_storage_v2/gapic_version.py            | 2 +-
 .../google-cloud-storage/google/cloud/storage/version.py | 2 +-
 .../snippet_metadata_google.storage.v2.json              | 2 +-
 7 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.release-please-individual-manifest.json b/.release-please-individual-manifest.json
index 32f2be1a9e74..8fd6b03cdc1f 100644
--- a/.release-please-individual-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-individual-manifest.json
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
   "packages/google-cloud-pubsub": "2.43.0",
   "packages/google-cloud-spanner": "3.71.0",
   "packages/google-cloud-spanner-dbapi-driver": "0.0.0",
-  "packages/google-cloud-storage": "3.17.1",
+  "packages/google-cloud-storage": "3.18.0",
   "packages/google-crc32c": "1.9.0",
   "packages/pandas-gbq": "0.35.3",
   "packages/sqlalchemy-bigquery": "1.17.3",
diff --git a/librarian.yaml b/librarian.yaml
index 7a63c62551c6..10f9eddd337d 100644
--- a/librarian.yaml
+++ b/librarian.yaml
@@ -2034,7 +2034,7 @@ libraries:
           - resource-name-alias=backupdr.googleapis.com/Backup:BackupDRBackup
       default_version: v1
   - name: google-cloud-storage
-    version: 3.17.1
+    version: 3.18.0
     apis:
       - path: google/storage/v2
     python:
diff --git a/packages/google-cloud-storage/CHANGELOG.md b/packages/google-cloud-storage/CHANGELOG.md
index 5adad4821f49..37b912ae3ff8 100644
--- a/packages/google-cloud-storage/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/packages/google-cloud-storage/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,15 @@
 
 [1]: https://pypi.org/project/google-cloud-storage/#history
 
+## [3.18.0](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/compare/google-cloud-storage-v3.17.1...google-cloud-storage-v3.18.0) (2026-10-28)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* declare support for Python 3.15 ([#18737](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/issues/18737)) ([65c8767](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/commit/65c87678e7a63aa4c8115c9273581aa5db82fbe9))
+* **storage:** integrate OpenTelemetry metrics gating across clients and transfer_manager ([#18577](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/issues/18577)) ([57366ee](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/commit/57366eef901fe2ae9383ca367ba2f9f40a09625f))
+* **storage:** support DirectPath over Interconnect in gRPC client ([#18482](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/issues/18482)) ([6b9d7f7](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/commit/6b9d7f7b949916c2175bca62f073e59b7677f4d7))
+
 ## [3.17.1](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/compare/google-cloud-storage-v3.17.0...google-cloud-storage-v3.17.1) (2026-10-15)
 
 
diff --git a/packages/google-cloud-storage/google/cloud/_storage/gapic_version.py b/packages/google-cloud-storage/google/cloud/_storage/gapic_version.py
index 358e75a1717d..ba81b8cb3beb 100644
--- a/packages/google-cloud-storage/google/cloud/_storage/gapic_version.py
+++ b/packages/google-cloud-storage/google/cloud/_storage/gapic_version.py
@@ -13,4 +13,4 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 #
-__version__ = "3.17.1"  # {x-release-please-version}
+__version__ = "3.18.0"  # {x-release-please-version}
diff --git a/packages/google-cloud-storage/google/cloud/_storage_v2/gapic_version.py b/packages/google-cloud-storage/google/cloud/_storage_v2/gapic_version.py
index 358e75a1717d..ba81b8cb3beb 100644
--- a/packages/google-cloud-storage/google/cloud/_storage_v2/gapic_version.py
+++ b/packages/google-cloud-storage/google/cloud/_storage_v2/gapic_version.py
@@ -13,4 +13,4 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 #
-__version__ = "3.17.1"  # {x-release-please-version}
+__version__ = "3.18.0"  # {x-release-please-version}
diff --git a/packages/google-cloud-storage/google/cloud/storage/version.py b/packages/google-cloud-storage/google/cloud/storage/version.py
index 9b72eddf74fe..89024cc08a0c 100644
--- a/packages/google-cloud-storage/google/cloud/storage/version.py
+++ b/packages/google-cloud-storage/google/cloud/storage/version.py
@@ -12,4 +12,4 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-__version__ = "3.17.1"
+__version__ = "3.18.0"
diff --git a/packages/google-cloud-storage/samples/generated_samples/snippet_metadata_google.storage.v2.json b/packages/google-cloud-storage/samples/generated_samples/snippet_metadata_google.storage.v2.json
index d95d2a2ec3cf..34083016c9ad 100644
--- a/packages/google-cloud-storage/samples/generated_samples/snippet_metadata_google.storage.v2.json
+++ b/packages/google-cloud-storage/samples/generated_samples/snippet_metadata_google.storage.v2.json
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
     ],
     "language": "PYTHON",
     "name": "google-cloud-storage",
-    "version": "3.17.1"
+    "version": "3.18.0"
   },
   "snippets": [
     {