Release v0.18.0

⚠️ A Breaking Change ⚠️

Cilium CLI GitHub Action now defaults to using the top-level go.mod file to determine Go version to build Cilium CLI when skip-build parameter is set to false (#2956).

What's Changed

• chore(deps): update actions/upload-artifact action to v4.6.1 by @renovate in #2949
• Always update github.com/cilium/cilium from main by @tklauser in #2951
• chore(deps): update actions/download-artifact action to v4.1.9 by @renovate in #2952
• renovate: clean up configuration by @tklauser in #2954
• chore(deps): update all github action dependencies (minor) by @renovate in #2955
• chore(deps): update dependency go to v1.24.0 by @renovate in #2957
• action: Clean up the logic to handle go-mod-directory by @michi-covalent in #2956
• Prepare for v0.18.0 release by @michi-covalent in #2958

Full Changelog: v0.17.0...v0.18.0