diff --git a/.kernel.checksum b/.kernel.checksum
index 54495baf385b08cfc246a8116667929d5c223345..2caee590b6aedb2170456b010055ab1d70c1d105 100644
--- a/.kernel.checksum
+++ b/.kernel.checksum
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Direct Git Import
+1c09fbcc1d976607fa9a39e34cbb69b152f6083300711cc51551204512644d01
diff --git a/.kernel.metadata b/.kernel.metadata
index 13b04c0d92e328c38dcb3b0a153633c602cb5de9..88a3dbf03ab66ee5407fd139aced32f4c931e0da 100644
--- a/.kernel.metadata
+++ b/.kernel.metadata
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-b0a3fcd56e59ff51ff6e88a96d2b851677eed203d4f56023f718637455621979 SOURCES/kernel-abi-stablelists-4.18.0-553.tar.bz2
+245fc888d5862042eab487bf2f251f2c1d72c1295b24db25a2e71ca96815a30a SOURCES/kernel-abi-stablelists-4.18.0-553.tar.bz2
 721aa980c9eedf50f81cd7b3a16a2b8780dc3024c337e92e24ec20deab3d6f13 SOURCES/kernel-kabi-dw-4.18.0-553.tar.bz2
-dff7b1d9cf7e03baa95ad894f4dc8bb19eff68d0661029622202f66f99a00ad3 SOURCES/linux-4.18.0-553.40.1.el8_10.tar.xz
+04e2711ad91eaf99c36c729da972cc0ba91b6f49e17101cd855c033df2031390 SOURCES/linux-4.18.0-553.42.1.el8_10.tar.xz
diff --git a/SPECS/kernel.spec b/SPECS/kernel.spec
index 99219da8290504794327e130923841eec7fe7775..831a71d77228c5ca1fb04ca2ceeec68df80d4b39 100644
--- a/SPECS/kernel.spec
+++ b/SPECS/kernel.spec
@@ -38,10 +38,10 @@
 # define buildid .local
 
 %define specversion 4.18.0
-%define pkgrelease 553.40.1.el8_10
+%define pkgrelease 553.42.1.el8_10
 
 # allow pkg_release to have configurable %%{?dist} tag
-%define specrelease 553.40.1%{?dist}
+%define specrelease 553.42.1%{?dist}
 
 %define pkg_release %{specrelease}%{?buildid}
 
@@ -2682,7 +2682,7 @@ fi
 #
 #
 %changelog
-* Tue Feb 11 2025 Release Engineering <releng@rockylinux.org> - 4.18.0-553.40.1
+* Wed Mar 05 2025 Release Engineering <releng@rockylinux.org> - 4.18.0-553.42.1
 - Adding prod certs and changed cert date to 20210620 (Sherif Nagy)
 - Adding Rocky secure boot certs (Sherif Nagy)
 - Fixing vmlinuz removal (Sherif Nagy)
@@ -2690,6 +2690,18 @@ fi
 - Porting to 8.10, debranding and Rocky branding (Louis Abel)
 - Fixing pesign_key_name values (Sherif Nagy)
 
+* Thu Feb 20 2025 Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> [4.18.0-553.42.1.el8_10]
+- net: skb: exclude the single page frag cache for too small alloc (Paolo Abeni) [RHEL-66261]
+- NFSD: Reset cb_seq_status after NFS4ERR_DELAY (Olga Kornievskaia) [RHEL-79458]
+- mm: vmscan: account for free pages to prevent infinite Loop in throttle_direct_reclaim() (Seiji Nishikawa) [RHEL-64950]
+- scsi: st: Don't set pos_unknown just after device recognition (John Meneghini) [RHEL-78415]
+- ovl: fix use inode directly in rcu-walk mode (Miklos Szeredi) [RHEL-76161]
+- RDMA/cxgb4: Fix RDMA_CM_EVENT_UNREACHABLE error for iWARP (Kamal Heib) [RHEL-75826]
+
+* Fri Feb 14 2025 Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> [4.18.0-553.41.1.el8_10]
+- virtio-net: correctly enable callback during start_xmit (Laurent Vivier) [RHEL-72886]
+- dm snapshot: fix lockup in dm_exception_table_exit (Benjamin Marzinski) [RHEL-76230 RHEL-34599]
+
 * Thu Feb 06 2025 Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> [4.18.0-553.40.1.el8_10]
 - media: uvcvideo: Skip parsing frames of type UVC_VS_UNDEFINED in uvc_parse_format (Desnes Nunes) [RHEL-69571] {CVE-2024-53104}