Release 0.18.0

Signed-off-by: Michael Vetter <jubalh@iodoru.org>

CHANGELOG

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+0.18.0 (2026-04-10)
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+Special thanks to our sponsor Matthew Fennell!
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+4 people contributed to this release: @GunniBusch, @balejk, @paulfertser and @jubalh.
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+This release can only be build with Meson. Autotools support has been removed.
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+Features:
+- Add spellcheck highlighting support (#2132)
+- Implement asynchronous external editor support (#2145)
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+Bug Fixes:
+- Add missing includes for libomemo-c builds (#2133)
+- Ensure consistent unescaping and space handling (#2139)
+- Fix crash when loading MAM for a contact with empty db (#2144)
+- Fix removal of entries in account file (#2145)
+- Handle X11 connection loss gracefully (#2140)
+- Ignore key contents if there is no payload (#2147)
+- Implement backslash escaping for contact names (#2139)
+- Restore TTY access for eval_password commands (#2145)
+- Standardize PreKey management to prevent decryption failures (#2137)
+- Verify 'by' attribute of stanza-id and MAM result (#2136)
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+Chores:
+- Fix release years in doap file
+- Support building libstrophe as a subproject (#2141)
+
 0.17.0 (2026-03-26)
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