Version 1.18.2

This micro release includes a number of bug fixes and documentation updates, as well as compatibility updates for xarray 2023.12 and Pandas 2.2.
Many thanks to the new contributors @junietoc, @JulianGiles, and @magic-lantern, as well as the returning contributors @ianthomas23, @maximlt, @TheoMathurin, @philippjfr, @ahuang11, and @hoxbro.

Enhancements:

• Update contour line calculations to use ContourPy's LineType.ChunkCombinedNan (#5985)
• Use sys.executable for check_output (#5983)
• Updates to show_versions (#6072, #6081)

Bug fixes:

• Support color_key in datashade when intermediate step is an ImageStack (#5994)
• Fix hist on overlay (#5995)
• Set proper context before triggering streams (#6000)
• Support partial bound function (#6009)
• Add norm in init_artists in holoviews/plotting/mpl/raster.py (#6029)
• Fix linking elements that are transformed by a Compositor (#6003)
• Add datetime hover information for selector (#6023, #6039)
• Only evaluate rx if it is a Reactive Expression (#6014)
• Ensure partial methods can be used as dmap callables (#6063)
• Del frame after stack level is found in deprecated (#6085)

Compatibility:

• Compatibility updates with xarray 2023.12 (#6026)
• Add extra check to detect if we are in jupyterlite (#6007)
• Compatibility updates with Pandas 2.2 (#6074, #6078)
• Add Comm on_open handler to initialize the server comm (#6076)

Documentation:

• Fix docs (#5996)
• Fix Param usage in the Plot and Renderers guide (#6001)
• Fixing URLs to bokeh project (#6005)
• Fix to broken urls in example gallery pages (#6038)
• Replace Google Analytics with GoatCounter (#6048)
• Add downloads badges (#6088)

Maintenance:

• Change to pytest-rerunfailures (#5984)
• Holoviews maintenance (#5987)
• Add log_cli_level = "INFO" to pytest (#5989)
• Add shell pre-commit hook (#5991)
• Enable Bugbear 904 (#5992)
• Part 1, modernize test suite (#5954)
• Enforce labels (#5996)
• Add lower pin to scipy (#6032)
• Skip Deploying_Bokeh_Apps.ipynb on Windows (#6070)
• Fix failing Windows tests (#6087)