diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/kops/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/kops/default.nix
index 282890ada5b5..bff0aacb1263 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/kops/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/kops/default.nix
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 let
   goPackagePath = "k8s.io/kops";
 
-  generic = { version, sha256, ...}@attrs:
-    let attrs' = builtins.removeAttrs attrs ["version" "sha256"] ; in
+  generic = { version, sha256, rev ? version, ...}@attrs:
+    let attrs' = builtins.removeAttrs attrs ["version" "sha256" "rev"] ; in
       buildGoPackage {
         pname = "kops";
         inherit version;
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ let
         inherit goPackagePath;
 
         src = fetchFromGitHub {
-          rev = version;
+          rev = rev;
           owner = "kubernetes";
           repo = "kops";
           inherit sha256;
@@ -65,4 +65,10 @@ in rec {
     version = "1.17.1";
     sha256 = "1km6nwanmhfx8rl1wp445z9ib50jr2f86rd92vilm3q4rs9kig1h";
   };
+
+  kops_1_18 = mkKops rec {
+    version = "1.18.0";
+    sha256 = "16zbjxxv08j31y7lhkqx2bnx0pc3r0vpfrlhdjs26z22p5rc4rrh";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+  };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index c6d406907ac6..179cc712edf3 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -26199,8 +26199,9 @@ in
     kops_1_15
     kops_1_16
     kops_1_17
+    kops_1_18
     ;
-  kops = kops_1_17;
+  kops = kops_1_18;
 
   lguf-brightness = callPackage ../misc/lguf-brightness { };