chore(main): release google-cloud-storage 3.18.0

Author: release-please[bot]

.release-please-individual-manifest.json

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
   "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",

librarian.yaml

@@ -2048,7 +2048,7 @@ 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:

packages/google-cloud-storage/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -4,6 +4,23 @@
 
 [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) (2026-11-03)
+
+
+### 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:** add OpenTelemetry tracing support for gRPC bidi APIs ([#18397](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/issues/18397)) ([a24d0b5](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/commit/a24d0b5cf3b8c49930037cc2b0620fb89cb66ed8))
+* **storage:** add Preconditions to AsyncAppendableObjectWriter ([#18641](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/issues/18641)) ([f31d982](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/commit/f31d982fc812f1a5eea9c7aaf711100bc1b6457b))
+* **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:** opt-in zero-copy BidiReadObjectResponse parsing for async reads ([#18627](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/issues/18627)) ([708f98b](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/commit/708f98b4202268ef5bbd49fe7859d8b6605ba933))
+* **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))
+
+
+### Performance Improvements
+
+* **storage:** verify CRC32C of large read chunks off the event-loop thread ([#18628](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/issues/18628)) ([3466e70](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/commit/3466e700470fc86e437361e6b46099a185bc4f1b))
+
 ## [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)
 
 

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}

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}

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"

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": [
     {