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
• nd similarly, these PRs for some JavaScript enhancements: Add ConfigLoader with deduplicated logging and try_examples config caching #249 and Better mobile device detection for interactive examples buttons #250
• this bug fix PR: Correctly handle case where "See Also" section follows "Examples" in global_enable_try_examples #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 interactive galleries to the scikit-image documentation scikit-image/scikit-image#7644, and Add JupyterLite-powered interactivity to the API reference examples in 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!

[agriyakhetarpal]

As discussed with @steppi on 13/01/2025, we've planned to move ahead with these three PRs for the 0.18 release:

• Relax jupyterlite-core and jupyterlite-xeus dependencies #238,
• Allow enabling/disabling REPL code execution in the Replite directive #245, and
• Correctly handle case where "See Also" section follows "Examples" in global_enable_try_examples #251

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This gets us to a release to be able to use new functionality downstream, and gives us the opportunity to provide PRs #249 and #259 a detailed look and thorough reviews for a 0.19 release at a later time this year.

[agriyakhetarpal]

Release now available:

• PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/jupyterlite-sphinx/0.18.0/
• conda-forge: https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/jupyterlite-sphinx/files?version=0.18.0

Thanks for coordinating it, @steppi!