From a451de865ec8e1595a3a0dae31241a6f874e63dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "mergify[bot]" <37929162+mergify[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 14:25:29 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [Release] add-backport-next (#4380) (#4382)

Co-authored-by: elasticmachine <infra-root+elasticmachine@elastic.co>
(cherry picked from commit 5e1f441082e9ef28dd513f1baafa96fe72f064b3)

Co-authored-by: elastic-vault-github-plugin-prod[bot] <150874479+elastic-vault-github-plugin-prod[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 .mergify.yml | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.mergify.yml b/.mergify.yml
index 085a542ef..7a9d4941d 100644
--- a/.mergify.yml
+++ b/.mergify.yml
@@ -311,3 +311,16 @@ pull_request_rules:
         labels:
           - "backport"
         title: "[{{ destination_branch }}](backport #{{ number }}) {{ title }}"
+  - name: backport patches to 8.18 branch
+    conditions:
+      - merged
+      - label=backport-8.18
+    actions:
+      backport:
+        assignees:
+          - "{{ author }}"
+        branches:
+          - "8.18"
+        labels:
+          - "backport"
+        title: "[{{ destination_branch }}](backport #{{ number }}) {{ title }}"