diff --git a/settings b/settings
index ce7fea4fff..1efec6dcad 100644
--- a/settings
+++ b/settings
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 # Kubernetes branch to get the OpenAPI spec from.
-export KUBERNETES_BRANCH="release-1.17"
+export KUBERNETES_BRANCH="release-1.18"
 
 # client version for packaging and releasing. It can
 # be different than SPEC_VERSION.