v0.18.0

0.18.0 (2026-10-05)

🚀 Features

• attribute a traced peak to passes, tasks and call sites (020f035)
• dask driver diagnosis (#84) (020f035)
• profile a run's stages under Dask (020f035)
• raise the public envelope to 15,402 pixels (#82) (d282466)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• bound the loop search's memory in large crowded features (#93) (22deb79)
• crowded field adequacy (#90) (0bfd82e)
• fit a crowded field island by island instead of deferring it (#87) (2e2f618)
• give a compact source beside a much brighter one its own component (#92) (b2ccf99)
• identify benchmark runs by the checkout they started from (#85) (a9a4aa4)
• key cached PyBDSF references by the code their worker runs (#88) (9f3633f)
• measure crowded fields instead of refusing them (#86) (4bdd19e)
• publish a fitted source whose aperture sums below zero (#94) (ad81965)
• publish emptied owners (#95) (9edc975)
• stop chance loops and one missed source from merging crowded fields (#91) (56366a3)

⚡ Performance

• bound generation publication's validation reads (020f035)
• stop Dask tasks carrying image-sized manifests (020f035)

🧹 Refactoring

• move catalogue rows out of the composition records (#89) (a837ba6)

📚 Documentation

• plan review tasks (#97) (6d07231)
• plan review tasks (#99) (65ec1d0)
• update documentation (#96) (5ff636f)
• update the crowded-field counts in the release status (#98) (aea724c)