# Release Notes - v2.8.18

**Date**: 2026-01-18

## 📝 Executive Summary

```text
2.8.18 2026-01-18

- feat: add --max-password-checks option to limit dictionary checks (default: 100)
- fix: ensure Machine type is reported as 'Container' when --container option is used
- chore: bump version to 2.8.18
```

## 🛠️ Internal Commit History

Initial release or no previous tag found.

## ⚙️ Technical Evolutions

## ✅ Laboratory Verification Results

- [x] Automated TDD suite passed.
- [x] Multi-DB version laboratory execution validated.
- [x] Performance indicator delta analysis completed.
