chore(1.x): release 1.18.1

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1.18.1 (2026-10-10)

Bug Fixes

• downloader: name the skipped OS packages in the failure report and warn when an older release is taken instead (2ead813)
• downloader: skip OS packages when a binary is expected (#149) (2ead813)

Documentation

• note that OS packages are not selected for a binary and how deep the fallback goes (2ead813)

Code Refactoring

• installer: install downloads through a pipeline (4df3181)
• installer: make the installation steps readonly classes (f259dc6)
• installer: prepare the destination around the steps, not in one (5174300)
• software: collect the software registry through a pipeline (51a3d7e)
• velox: build the config through the common pipeline (6e7998e)
• velox: drop the unused config pipeline metadata (#146) (c61c8f0)

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