diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 2c90967162..0be8521645 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ RUN echo ${CACHEBUST}>/dev/null
 RUN CHART_VERSION="v3.13.3"     CHART_FILE=/charts/rke2-canal.yaml             CHART_BOOTSTRAP=true    /charts/build-chart.sh
 RUN CHART_VERSION="1.10.101"    CHART_FILE=/charts/rke2-coredns.yaml           CHART_BOOTSTRAP=true    /charts/build-chart.sh
 RUN CHART_VERSION="1.36.300"    CHART_FILE=/charts/rke2-ingress-nginx.yaml     CHART_BOOTSTRAP=false   /charts/build-chart.sh
-RUN CHART_VERSION="v1.18.9"     CHART_FILE=/charts/rke2-kube-proxy.yaml        CHART_BOOTSTRAP=true    /charts/build-chart.sh
+RUN CHART_VERSION="v1.18.10"     CHART_FILE=/charts/rke2-kube-proxy.yaml        CHART_BOOTSTRAP=true    /charts/build-chart.sh
 RUN CHART_VERSION="2.11.100"    CHART_FILE=/charts/rke2-metrics-server.yaml    CHART_BOOTSTRAP=false   /charts/build-chart.sh
 RUN rm -vf /charts/*.sh /charts/*.md
 
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ RUN rm -vf /charts/*.sh /charts/*.md
 # This image includes any host level programs that we might need. All binaries
 # must be placed in bin/ of the file image and subdirectories of bin/ will be flattened during installation.
 # This means bin/foo/bar will become bin/bar when rke2 installs this to the host
-FROM rancher/k3s:v1.18.9-k3s1 AS k3s
+FROM rancher/k3s:v1.18.10-k3s1 AS k3s
 FROM rancher/hardened-containerd:v1.3.6-k3s2 AS containerd
 FROM rancher/hardened-crictl:v1.18.0 AS crictl
 FROM rancher/hardened-runc:v1.0.0-rc92 AS runc
diff --git a/developer-docs/upgrading_kubernetes.md b/developer-docs/upgrading_kubernetes.md
index 6052e194be..9010f505e3 100644
--- a/developer-docs/upgrading_kubernetes.md
+++ b/developer-docs/upgrading_kubernetes.md
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Create a new release asset for in the [rke2-charts](github.com/rancher/rke2-char
 
 The following files have references that will need to be updated in the respective locations. Replace the found version with the desired version.
 
-* Dockerfile: `RUN CHART_VERSION="v1.18.9"     CHART_FILE=/charts/rke2-kube-proxy.yaml`
-* Dockerfile: `FROM rancher/k3s:v1.18.9-k3s1 AS k3s`
-* images.go:  `KubernetesVersion = "v1.18.9"`
-* version.sh: `KUBERNETES_VERSION=${KUBERNETES_VERSION:-v1.18.9}`
+* Dockerfile: `RUN CHART_VERSION="v1.18.10"     CHART_FILE=/charts/rke2-kube-proxy.yaml`
+* Dockerfile: `FROM rancher/k3s:v1.18.10-k3s1 AS k3s`
+* images.go:  `KubernetesVersion = "v1.18.10"`
+* version.sh: `KUBERNETES_VERSION=${KUBERNETES_VERSION:-v1.18.10}`
diff --git a/pkg/images/images.go b/pkg/images/images.go
index fd3899df97..f4b0c694b6 100644
--- a/pkg/images/images.go
+++ b/pkg/images/images.go
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ var (
 	runtime           = os.Getenv("RKE2_RUNTIME_IMAGE")
 	etcd              = os.Getenv("RKE2_ETCD_IMAGE")
 
-	KubernetesVersion = "v1.18.9"      // make sure this matches what is in the scripts/version.sh script
+	KubernetesVersion = "v1.18.10"     // make sure this matches what is in the scripts/version.sh script
 	PauseVersion      = "3.2"          // make sure this matches what is in the scripts/build-images script
 	EtcdVersion       = "v3.4.13-k3s1" // make sure this matches what is in the scripts/build-images script
 	RuntimeImageName  = "rke2-runtime"
diff --git a/scripts/version.sh b/scripts/version.sh
index ccb24c8bb3..fe77468a99 100755
--- a/scripts/version.sh
+++ b/scripts/version.sh
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ REVISION=$(git rev-parse HEAD)$(if ! git diff --no-ext-diff --quiet --exit-code;
 PLATFORM=${GOOS}-${GOARCH}
 RELEASE=${PROG}.${PLATFORM}
 # hardcode k8s version unless its set specifically
-KUBERNETES_VERSION=${KUBERNETES_VERSION:-v1.18.9}
+KUBERNETES_VERSION=${KUBERNETES_VERSION:-v1.18.10}
 
 if [ -d .git ]; then
     if [ -z "$GIT_TAG" ]; then