Update VERSION to 2.18.0 and update release notes

Author: flyingsilverfin

RELEASE_NOTES_LATEST.md

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+
+## New Features
+- **Introduce computed values**
+  
+  We allow users to interact via Console with the new Value API introduced in https://github.com/vaticle/typeql/pull/260. This PR adds pretty printing for value concepts and updates required dependencies to support the change.
+  
+  
+
+## Bugs Fixed
+
+
+## Code Refactors
+
+
+## Other Improvements
+- **Update release notes workflow**
+  
+  We integrate the new release notes tooling. The release notes are now to be written by a person and committed to the repo.
+  
+  
+- **Set up the bazel remote cache**
+
+    

VERSION

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-2.17.0
+2.18.0

dependencies/vaticle/repositories.bzl

@@ -28,12 +28,12 @@ def vaticle_typedb_common():
     git_repository(
         name = "vaticle_typedb_common",
         remote = "https://github.com/vaticle/typedb-common",
-        commit = "9372dfb227d54c6eb631eed02e67f250e55e657e" # sync-marker: do not remove this comment, this is used for sync-dependencies by @vaticle_typedb_common
+        tag = "2.18.0" # sync-marker: do not remove this comment, this is used for sync-dependencies by @vaticle_typedb_common
     )
 
 def vaticle_typedb_client_java():
     git_repository(
         name = "vaticle_typedb_client_java",
         remote = "https://github.com/vaticle/typedb-client-java",
-        commit = "16c23649627001b44b39337f9d904619b4dac97c",  # sync-marker: do not remove this comment, this is used for sync-dependencies by @vaticle_typedb_client_java
+        tag = "2.18.0",  # sync-marker: do not remove this comment, this is used for sync-dependencies by @vaticle_typedb_client_java
     )