chore: Release Noir(1.0.0-beta.18)

[noirwhal]

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1.0.0-beta.18 (2026-01-06)

Features

• frontend: Skip comptime evaluation on elaboration failure (#10741) (b784048)
• Improved error message when if is missing its condition (#11037) (abfee1f)
• Panic message can be str or fmtstr (#10004) (dbdfe6f)

Bug Fixes

• acir: Always increment the dynaimc slice length during push back (#10940) (ab4978f)
• acir: Grow element type sizes array on slice ops (#10951) (181f3c2)
• acir: Read slices with their type (#10939) (240a4d5)
• Add missing "cannot" in error message (#10937) (e2cdc0b)
• Address race condition in parallel noir_js build (#11028) (d08a41c)
• Avoid wrapping around for capacity (#11042) (5d72c67)
• Check duplicate name across types and constants (#10906) (c72a05e)
• Comptime fmtstr display (#11074) (35ae96c)
• comptime: Lower fmtstr to fmtstr, not str (#11002) (177e05f)
• Correct type bindings when invoking closure in comptime interpreter (#10672) (8d757a3)
• Defining an impl on a type alias (#11068) (3abfbf8)
• Do not bind unification (#10919) (1ad815e)
• Do not mark witness as equivalent to a constant (#11072) (e91e684)
• Don't allow unknown witnesses in CircuitSimulator write op (#11077) (078c746)
• Don't assume default entry exists (#9330) (d8c37ea)
• elaborator: Filter skipped interpreter error when calling macro arguments (#11019) (f9553b6)
• Error if trait impl associated type is missing its body (#11076) (9fca3a7)
• Error on returning unit type in empty array (#10844) (d201d96)
• examples: Fails CI when any of just examples errors out (#10956) (dff029d)
• examples: Fix the browser example (#10966) (366fa46)
• examples: Update the recursion example to use bb version 3.0.0-nightly.20251104 (#10964) (d8bb035)
• examples: Update the solidity_verifier example (#10965) (dc21601)
• Find associated types via their name (#10920) (f1d6f56)
• fmt: Handle negative literals in turbofish (#11015) (1c73ac0)
• Fold attribute unit parameter error (#11073) (32f513f)
• fuzzer: Add the "in" keyword to make_name (#10957) (be15de4)
• LSP: Show fn env and omit unit return type in inlay hints (#10566) (dbc5585)
• Maximum recursion depth for the parser (#10955) (0bf7626)
• mem2reg: Array set value aliases across blocks (#11036) (e6e5616)
• mem2reg: Loop carried aliases (#11018) (4c79b1c)
• Reference aliases in if_else arrays (#10902) (436f025)
• Restore the previous state in case of error (#10954) (2039605)
• Skip release-end job when release PR isn't updated (#11031) (0a365c8)
• ssa: Insert enable_side_effects before Constrain (#10936) (5470218)
• ssa: Override the vector capacity if we have already determined a constant length (#10963) (4566208)
• ssa: Pop elements from input slice for slice pop back simplification (#10941) (e28ef53)
• SSA: Validate that enable_side_effects takes a u1 (#11001) (40847e0)
• Transform into constrain_not_equal outside enable_side_effects (#10935) (417d667)
• Type alias of unit return type of main function (#11038) (2f1315f)
• Update values on all blocks during constant folding (#10952) (c44eebd)

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⚠️ Performance Alert ⚠️

Possible performance regression was detected for benchmark 'Execution Time'.
Benchmark result of this commit is worse than the previous benchmark result exceeding threshold 1.20.

Benchmark suite	Current: 8704a93	Previous: 81aeeff	Ratio
rollup-root	0.005 s	0.004 s	1.25
sha512-100-bytes	0.088 s	0.062 s	1.42

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⚠️ Performance Alert ⚠️

Possible performance regression was detected for benchmark 'Test Suite Duration'.
Benchmark result of this commit is worse than the previous benchmark result exceeding threshold 1.20.

Benchmark suite	Current: 5945e28	Previous: e91e684	Ratio
test_report_zkpassport_noir-ecdsa_	2 s	1 s	2

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⚠️ Performance Alert ⚠️

Possible performance regression was detected for benchmark 'ACVM Benchmarks'.
Benchmark result of this commit is worse than the previous benchmark result exceeding threshold 1.20.

Benchmark suite	Current: 142ccb4	Previous: dbdfe6f	Ratio
perfectly_parallel_batch_inversion_opcodes	2787910 ns/iter (± 9541)	2262655 ns/iter (± 1808)	1.23

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⚠️ Performance Alert ⚠️

Possible performance regression was detected for benchmark 'Compilation Time'.
Benchmark result of this commit is worse than the previous benchmark result exceeding threshold 1.20.

Benchmark suite	Current: 8704a93	Previous: 81aeeff	Ratio
rollup-block-root	1.9 s	1.46 s	1.30

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FYI @noir-lang/developerrelations on Noir doc changes.

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