ACM Operator has version higher than the catalog contents

Solution Verified - Updated

Environment

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP)
    • < 4.18
  • Red Hat OpenShift on AWS (ROSA)
    • < 4.18
  • OpenShift Dedicated (OSD)
    • < 4.18
  • Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO)
    • < 4.18

Issue

For several hours on February 3, 2026, Red Hat released 4.18 Red Hat Operators catalog content into 4.12-4.17 clusters. More details on impacts to Red Hat Operators can be found in the Red Hat Operator has version higher than the cluster version solution.

The Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes (ACM) operators uses a different channel strategy than many OpenShift operators, so verify in the Diagnostic Steps below to determine if you have been impacted. The multicluster engine (MCE) operator uses the same channel strategy as ACM and has also been included in the Diagnostic Steps below.

Note: Automatic updates to operators will not happen between channels. To be impacted you must have noticed the catalog updates caused new channels to appear and have switched to a newer channel for the operator that is compatible with the upgrade graph.

Resolution

Use the Diagnostic Steps below to confirm if you are impacted. If you used the script from the Red hat Operator solution, it may incorrectly indicate you are impacted in some cases.

If you are impacted or have any other questions about the incident, please reach out to This content is not included.Red Hat Support and reference this Knowledgebase article.

Root Cause

More details on the root cause to Red Hat Operators can be found in the Red Hat Operator has version higher than the cluster version solution.

Diagnostic Steps

Find the section that matches your OpenShift version. The operators impacted for your OpenShift version are found in the Impacted Versions entry. The Not Impacted entry contains the operator versions that were already available in the catalog, but are not listed in the official support matrix.

  • OpenShift 4.17
    • Supported ACM Versions: ACM 2.11 - ACM 2.14; MCE 2.6 - MCE 2.9
    • Impacted Versions: None
    • Not Impacted Versions: ACM 2.15; MCE 2.10
  • OpenShift 4.16
    • Supported ACM Versions: ACM 2.11 - ACM 2.13; MCE 2.6 - MCE 2.8
    • Impacted Versions: ACM 2.15; MCE 2.10
    • Not Impacted Versions: ACM 2.14; MCE 2.9
  • OpenShift 4.14
    • Supported ACM Versions: ACM 2.11; MCE 2.6
    • Impacted Versions: ACM 2.13 - ACM 2.15; MCE 2.8 - MCE 2.10
    • Not Impacted Versions: ACM 2.12; MCE 2.7

Submariner operator: If you have the Submariner addon enabled in an impacted ACM version, the corresponding Submariner operator will be impacted as well.

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