[Snyk] Upgrade release-please from 16.12.0 to 16.18.0

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Snyk has created this PR to upgrade release-please from 16.12.0 to 16.18.0.

ℹ️ Keep your dependencies up-to-date. This makes it easier to fix existing vulnerabilities and to more quickly identify and fix newly disclosed vulnerabilities when they affect your project.

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• The recommended version is 12 versions ahead of your current version.

• The recommended version was released a year ago.

Issues fixed by the recommended upgrade:

	Issue	Score	Exploit Maturity
	Arbitrary Code Injection SNYK-JS-JSONPATH-13645034	275	Proof of Concept
	Prototype Pollution SNYK-JS-JSONPATH-15134429	275	No Known Exploit
	Uncontrolled Recursion SNYK-JS-UNDERSCORE-15369786	275	Proof of Concept

Breaking Change Risk

Notice: This assessment is enhanced by AI.

Release notes

Package name: release-please

• 16.18.0 - 2025-02-27
  

  16.18.0 (2025-02-27)

  Features

  • Manifest.createRelease to return PR numbers (#2491) (0f07691)
• 16.17.0 - 2025-02-20
  

  16.17.0 (2025-02-20)

  Features

  • allow date updating in generic strategy (#2440) (3099091)
• 16.16.0 - 2025-02-19
  

  16.16.0 (2025-02-19)

  Features

  • add strategy for R packages (#2436) (2b5ff3b)

  Bug Fixes

  • deps: bump dependency versions (#2486) (6db2fb4)
• 16.15.0 - 2024-11-13
  

  16.15.0 (2024-11-13)

  Features

  • add always-update option to push to always push to release branch (72d40df)
• 16.14.4 - 2024-11-12
  

  16.14.4 (2024-11-12)

  Bug Fixes

  • deps: update dependency jsonpath-plus to v10.0.7 [security] (#2427) (f9614e3)
• 16.14.3 - 2024-10-15
  

  16.14.3 (2024-10-15)

  Bug Fixes

  • deps: bump jsonpath-plus from 9.0.0 to 10.0.0 (ab989e4)
• 16.14.2 - 2024-10-08
  

  16.14.2 (2024-10-08)

  Bug Fixes

  • java-yoshi: match full artifact id when updating versions (#2398) (e062dc1)
  • make workspace plugin with separate-pull-request fine (#2310) (15c75a9)
• 16.14.1 - 2024-10-01
  

  16.14.1 (2024-10-01)

  Bug Fixes

  • deps: replace jsonpath with jsonpath-plus (#2391) (47db9b5)
  • when parsing multiple messages from a single commit, require 2 newlines (#2390) (bb5e69b)
• 16.14.0 - 2024-09-17
  

  16.14.0 (2024-09-17)

  Features

  • handle multiple commits in a single message (#2358) (ec41c38)
• 16.13.0 - 2024-09-16
  

  16.13.0 (2024-09-16)

  Features

  • Introduce componentNoSpace parameter (Removes whitespace character from ${component} title pattern) (#2330) (0a2d5c6)
• 16.12.2 - 2024-09-11
• 16.12.1 - 2024-09-11
• 16.12.0 - 2024-06-06

from release-please GitHub release notes

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This is a minor version upgrade for release-please from 16.12.0 to 16.18.0. Based on semantic versioning, minor releases in this range are expected to be backward-compatible, introducing new features and bug fixes without causing breaking changes. No documented breaking changes were found for this specific version range.

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