Prepare v0.18.2 #2000

Job	Run time
Code linting	31s
Test with Python3.11 (tox, ubuntu-latest), upstream=)	4m 50s
Test with Python3.10 (Anaconda, ubuntu-latest)	2m 48s
Test with Python3.12 (tox, ubuntu-latest), upstream=)	5m 51s
Test with Python3.13 (Anaconda, ubuntu-latest)	3m 0s
Test with Python3.13 (tox, ubuntu-latest), upstream=)	5m 59s
Test with Python3.10 (Anaconda, macos-latest)	2m 59s
Test with Python3.13 (Anaconda, macos-latest)	3m 55s
Test with Python3.11 (tox, macos-latest), upstream=)	8m 20s
Test with Python3.12 (tox, macos-latest), upstream=)	9m 56s
Test with Python3.13 (tox, macos-latest), upstream=)	9m 41s
Test with Python3.10 (tox, ubuntu-latest), upstream=)	6m 2s
Finish	8s
	1h 4m 0s

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