chore(main): release 0.18.0

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0.18.0 (2026-06-30)

Added

• mobile binding improvements (8de8117)
• packaging: mature systemd service install + local validation (aea9b64)

Fixed

• address PR review comments (19bbd70)
• audit: remove no-op storage and metadata paths found in audit, use file-type detection for buffer handlers without, breaking generic multimedia fallback, and sync plugin and operator docs with shipped behavior (8889ca1)
• build: always compile video handler into content lib (5b82cae)
• ci: update ASAN/UBSAN compile target to catch2_daemon_metrics_status (9ab859b)
• cli: remove read-path metadata writes (961a128)
• docs: Replace (c1e5ec0)
• revert defaulted dtors for pimpl classes, add back in .cpp (300ff07)
• test fixes for ci (a21dc6a)
• test fixes for ci (aaae1e8)
• test: harden sanitizer merge blockers (8e8b0ec)
• testing: stabilize TSAN coverage, harden daemon shutdown, and speed up KG/storage paths (#53) (090a5ca)
• test: prevent stack-use-after-scope in work-coordinator coroutine (921f8a8)
• windows build and test fixes (ca604bb)
• windows test fixes for servicemanager (d5e9b65)
• windows test fixes for servicemanager (bf6fbad)
• windows: use portable video byteswap (48e83d3)

Performance

• additional optimizations and benchmark docs update (6a7adac)
• cli: profile user-facing command paths (12983fe)
• fix tests and profiling infrastructure (e070e49)
• improve ingestion optimization and profiling infrastructure (#52) (f90c281)
• improving measurements of subsystems (9f2a45c)
• improving profile and assertions in ingestion and retrieval paths (886c600)
• improving profiling implementation and optimizations in ingestion path (5f916c8)
• ingest: cache dispatch policy resolution (87ceb58)
• ingestion optimizations and profiling improvements (9f959ec)
• ingest: route metadata writes through dedicated writers (8d98479)
• storage: batch ref-count commits (ce80b96)

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