diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 69fe96486c..897525c554 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ 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="v1.18.12"    CHART_FILE=/charts/rke2-kube-proxy.yaml        CHART_BOOTSTRAP=true    /charts/build-chart.sh
+RUN CHART_VERSION="v1.18.13"    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
 
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ 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:v1.18.12-k3s1 AS k3s
+FROM rancher/k3s:v1.18.13-k3s1 AS k3s
 FROM rancher/hardened-containerd:v1.3.9-k3s1 AS containerd
 FROM rancher/hardened-crictl:v1.18.0 AS crictl
 FROM rancher/hardened-runc:v1.0.0-rc92 AS runc
diff --git a/channels.yaml b/channels.yaml
index 14c7520c65..631b676a3e 100644
--- a/channels.yaml
+++ b/channels.yaml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 channels:
 - name: stable
-  latest: v1.18.12+rke2r1
+  latest: v1.18.13+rke2r1
 - name: latest
   latestRegexp: .*
   excludeRegexp: ^[^+]+-
diff --git a/contrib/custom-image-kubelet/README.md b/contrib/custom-image-kubelet/README.md
index b04d1a285d..413de45772 100644
--- a/contrib/custom-image-kubelet/README.md
+++ b/contrib/custom-image-kubelet/README.md
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ The remaining RKE2 components include:
 Requirements
 ----
 
-1. RKE2 v1.18.12-beta1+rke2r2 or newer (with image/kubelet override support)
+1. RKE2 v1.18.13+rke2r1 or newer (with image/kubelet override support)
 1. Python 3
 1. Access to AWS ECR (either via AWS CLI IAM keys, or EC2 instance role)
     *This is only necessary if the replacement RKE2 images are stored in ECR*
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Installing
 On an Ubuntu host:
 
 ```bash
-curl -sfL https://get.rke2.io | INSTALL_RKE2_VERSION=v1.18.12-beta1+rke2r2 sh -
+curl -sfL https://get.rke2.io | INSTALL_RKE2_VERSION=v1.18.13+rke2r1 sh -
 
 sudo apt update
 sudo apt install -y python3-venv python3-wheel python3-pip
diff --git a/developer-docs/upgrading_kubernetes.md b/developer-docs/upgrading_kubernetes.md
index 9010f505e3..2e9fbb385e 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="v1.18.10"     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=${KUBERNETES_VERSION:-v1.18.10}`
+* Dockerfile: `RUN CHART_VERSION="v1.18.13"     CHART_FILE=/charts/rke2-kube-proxy.yaml`
+* Dockerfile: `FROM rancher/k3s:v1.18.13-k3s1 AS k3s`
+* images.go:  `KubernetesVersion = "v1.18.13"`
+* version.sh: `KUBERNETES_VERSION=${KUBERNETES_VERSION:-v1.18.13}`
diff --git a/docs/upgrade/automated_upgrade.md b/docs/upgrade/automated_upgrade.md
index d70ecfa096..af23874e94 100644
--- a/docs/upgrade/automated_upgrade.md
+++ b/docs/upgrade/automated_upgrade.md
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ spec:
 #    force: true
   upgrade:
     image: rancher/rke2-upgrade
-  version: v1.18.9+rke2r1
+  version: v1.18.13+rke2r1
 ---
 # Agent plan
 apiVersion: upgrade.cattle.io/v1
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ spec:
     force: true
   upgrade:
     image: rancher/rke2-upgrade
-  version: v1.18.9+rke2r1
+  version: v1.18.13+rke2r1
 
 ```
 
diff --git a/pkg/images/images.go b/pkg/images/images.go
index f9d5e435b5..2f9f99be10 100644
--- a/pkg/images/images.go
+++ b/pkg/images/images.go
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ const (
 )
 
 var (
-	KubernetesVersion = "v1.18.12"     // make sure this matches what is in the scripts/version.sh script
+	KubernetesVersion = "v1.18.13"     // 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 22f6aa20b4..afc8863526 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=${KUBERNETES_VERSION:-v1.18.12}
+KUBERNETES_VERSION=${KUBERNETES_VERSION:-v1.18.13}
 
 if [ -d .git ]; then
     if [ -z "$GIT_TAG" ]; then