diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 51533139914..a105838141a 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
         <!-- keep in alphabetic order -->
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
-        <project.systemvm.template.version>4.17.2.0</project.systemvm.template.version>
+        <project.systemvm.template.version>4.18.0.0</project.systemvm.template.version>
         <sonar.organization>apache</sonar.organization>
         <sonar.host.url>https://sonarcloud.io</sonar.host.url>
 
diff --git a/tools/appliance/systemvmtemplate/scripts/configure_systemvm_services.sh b/tools/appliance/systemvmtemplate/scripts/configure_systemvm_services.sh
index d40cbb89537..d1cfb4661fc 100644
--- a/tools/appliance/systemvmtemplate/scripts/configure_systemvm_services.sh
+++ b/tools/appliance/systemvmtemplate/scripts/configure_systemvm_services.sh
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 set -e
 set -x
 
-CLOUDSTACK_RELEASE=4.17.2
+CLOUDSTACK_RELEASE=4.18.0
 
 function configure_apache2() {
    # Enable ssl, rewrite and auth
diff --git a/tools/appliance/systemvmtemplate/template.json b/tools/appliance/systemvmtemplate/template.json
index 4ce996b416d..165caed7525 100644
--- a/tools/appliance/systemvmtemplate/template.json
+++ b/tools/appliance/systemvmtemplate/template.json
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@
       "format": "qcow2",
       "headless": true,
       "http_directory": "http",
-      "iso_checksum": "sha512:6a6607a05d57b7c62558e9c462fe5c6c04b9cfad2ce160c3e9140aa4617ab73aff7f5f745dfe51bbbe7b33c9b0e219a022ad682d6c327de0e53e40f079abf66a",
-      "iso_url": "https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/11.5.0/amd64/iso-cd/debian-11.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso",
+      "iso_checksum": "sha512:224cd98011b9184e49f858a46096c6ff4894adff8945ce89b194541afdfd93b73b4666b0705234bd4dff42c0a914fdb6037dd0982efb5813e8a553d8e92e6f51",
+      "iso_url": "https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/11.6.0/amd64/iso-cd/debian-11.6.0-amd64-netinst.iso",
       "net_device": "virtio-net",
       "output_directory": "../dist",
       "qemuargs": [