Release 1.18.0

[moggers87]

Description

1.18.0 release

Motivation and Context

It's been a while since we did a release and we have a fair few fixes

How Has This Been Tested?

No code changes have been made

Screenshots (if appropriate):

Types of changes

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)

Checklist:

• My code follows the code style of this project.
• My change requires a change to the documentation.
• I have updated the documentation accordingly.
• I have added tests to cover my changes.
• All new and existing tests passed.

[moggers87]

Once this is approved I will push the 1.18.0 tag

[claudep]

This looks good, thanks a lot 🏅

What do you think about including #775 in this release? It may solve the remaining issues regarding optional phonenumber dependencies.

[moggers87]

Gave it all a quick smoke test without phonenumbers installed and everything worked as expected 👍