0.18.0 release planning

[agriyakhetarpal]

Hi all, I'd like to request a new 0.18.0 release, with these changes:

• Relax jupyterlite-core and jupyterlite-xeus dependencies #238, since it is not possible to install jupyterlite-pyodide-kernel v0.5.0 released yesterday on 09/01/2025, with jupyterlite-sphinx 0.17.1 right now (Provide jupyterlite-sphinx[xeus] and jupyterlite-sphinx[pyodide] extras? #243 (comment))
• this PR, when it gets reviewed and merged: Allow enabling/disabling REPL code execution in the Replite directive #245
• and similarly, these PRs for some JavaScript enhancements: Add ConfigLoader with throttled logging and try_examples config caching #249 and Better mobile device detection for interactive examples buttons #250
• this bug fix PR: Add the "See Also" section to the TryExamples directive's trailing section ignore patterns #251

The rationale behind the request is to use a new release for projects downstream:

• to use the relaxed constraints for PRs: ENH, DOC: Add support for interactive examples for NumPy with jupyterlite-sphinx numpy/numpy#26745, Add JupyterLite-powered interactivity to the scikit-image documentation scikit-image/scikit-image#7644, and Add JupyterLite-powered interactivity to the SymPy documentation sympy/sympy#27419 (and more projects soon)
• to use the new REPL disabling feature added in Allow not executing code with the repl jupyterlite#1547 for reinstating work on DOC: Add replite console to the users docs matplotlib/matplotlib#22634

Thank you!