1.18.0.0

What's Changed

• Attempt to rewrite unnecessary constructor applications in the plugin by @zliu41 in #5649
• Better errors for literal ranges in PlutusTx (PLT-8174) by @kwxm in #5619
• 9.6 main development version by @michaelpj in #5645
• Make it build with ghc-9.8 by @erikd in #5564
• chore(deps): bump cachix/install-nix-action from 23 to 24 by @dependabot in #5655
• Fix buildability conditionals by @michaelpj in #5656
• less strict chooseList and chooseData by @mjaskelioff in #5657
• Extra conformance tests for chooseList by @kwxm in #5658
• Remove some unneded 9.8 stuff by @michaelpj in #5659
• Fix haskell syntax highlighting in quickstart by @michaelpj in #5661
• Remove some leftover traces from debugging by @michaelpj in #5660
• Show budget and traces output when uplc evaluate fails by @bezirg in #5652
• Kwxm/conformance/more polymorphism tests by @kwxm in #5662
• PLT-1567 Extend agda executable to handle costing reporting features by @mjaskelioff in #5653
• Add TxCertPoolRegister and TxCertPoolRetire to TxCert by @zliu41 in #5666
• 1.18.0.0 by @zliu41 in #5667
• Don't evaluate away builtins where the result might be unserializable by @michaelpj in #5664
• Fix Haddock error by @zliu41 in #5668

Full Changelog: 1.17.0.0...1.18.0.0