diff --git a/.github/workflows/master.yml b/.github/workflows/master.yml
index c934c2d5e..1819c4850 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/master.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/master.yml
@@ -183,6 +183,7 @@ jobs:
         flink:
           - '1.16'
           - '1.17'
+          - '1.18'
         flink-archive: [ "" ]
         comment: [ "normal" ]
         include:
@@ -190,6 +191,10 @@ jobs:
             flink: '1.17'
             flink-archive: '-Dflink.archive.mirror=https://archive.apache.org/dist/flink/flink-1.16.1 -Dflink.archive.name=flink-1.16.1-bin-scala_2.12.tgz'
             comment: 'verify-on-flink-1.16-binary'
+          - java: 8
+            flink: '1.17'
+            flink-archive: '-Dflink.archive.mirror=https://archive.apache.org/dist/flink/flink-1.18.0 -Dflink.archive.name=flink-1.18.0-bin-scala_2.12.tgz'
+            comment: 'verify-on-flink-1.18-binary'
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
       - name: Tune Runner VM
diff --git a/externals/kyuubi-flink-sql-engine/src/main/scala/org/apache/kyuubi/engine/flink/FlinkEngineUtils.scala b/externals/kyuubi-flink-sql-engine/src/main/scala/org/apache/kyuubi/engine/flink/FlinkEngineUtils.scala
index 7d42aae8c..06165272d 100644
--- a/externals/kyuubi-flink-sql-engine/src/main/scala/org/apache/kyuubi/engine/flink/FlinkEngineUtils.scala
+++ b/externals/kyuubi-flink-sql-engine/src/main/scala/org/apache/kyuubi/engine/flink/FlinkEngineUtils.scala
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ object FlinkEngineUtils extends Logging {
 
   val EMBEDDED_MODE_CLIENT_OPTIONS: Options = getEmbeddedModeClientOptions(new Options)
 
-  private def SUPPORTED_FLINK_VERSIONS = Set("1.16", "1.17").map(SemanticVersion.apply)
+  private def SUPPORTED_FLINK_VERSIONS = Set("1.16", "1.17", "1.18").map(SemanticVersion.apply)
 
   val FLINK_RUNTIME_VERSION: SemanticVersion = SemanticVersion(EnvironmentInformation.getVersion)
 
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ object FlinkEngineUtils extends Logging {
         .build()
         .newInstance(flinkConf, commandLines)
         .asInstanceOf[DefaultContext]
-    } else if (FLINK_RUNTIME_VERSION === "1.17") {
+    } else if (FLINK_RUNTIME_VERSION >= "1.17") {
       invokeAs[DefaultContext](
         classOf[DefaultContext],
         "load",
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 059bc214b..f03770b9d 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -2304,6 +2304,13 @@
             </properties>
         </profile>
 
+        <profile>
+            <id>flink-1.18</id>
+            <properties>
+                <flink.version>1.18.0</flink.version>
+            </properties>
+        </profile>
+
         <profile>
             <id>zookeeper-3.6</id>
             <properties>