Release Notes for Cppcheck 2.18

New checks:
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Improved checking:
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GUI:
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Changed interface:
- Updated path matching syntax for -i, --file-filter, suppressions, GUI excludes, and project file excludes.
Old patterns that use a `*` may need to use `**` instead if it is intended to match path separators. More details can be seen in the manual.
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Deprecations:
- Support for building with Qt 5 will be removed in Cppcheck 2.19.
- The platform 'unix32-unsigned' has been deprecated and will be removed in Cppcheck 2.19. Please use '--platform=unix32 --funsigned-char' instead.
- The platform 'unix64-unsigned' has been deprecated and will be removed in Cppcheck 2.19. Please use '--platform=unix64 --funsigned-char' instead.
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Other:
- Updated Qt to 6.9.1 (official Windows release only).
- added CMake target `run-clang-tidy-csa` to run Clang Static Analyzer
- added CMake option `ENABLE_CSA_ALPHA` to enable the Clang Static Analyzer alpha checkers
- Updated TinyXML-2 to v11.0.0
- The minimum supported Python version has been bumped to 3.7.
- CMake will now unconditionally use Boost.Containers if available. If CMake option `USE_BOOST` is specified it will now bail out when it is not found.
- Fix checking a project that contains several project file entries for the same file.
- Fixed --file-filter matching of looked up files in provided paths.
- Split up cstyleCast checker; dangerous casts produce portability/warning reports, safe casts produce style reports.
- Removed deprecated '--showtime=' value 'top5'. Please use 'top5_file' or 'top5_summary' instead.
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