v2.18.0

What's Changed

This release updates NBC to v1.18.0 further improving simplified consumers and performance.
Please refer to the above release notes for additional information.

Other

• [BUMP] updated dependencies.md by @aricart in #596
• [CI] update nats-server by @aricart in #597
• [CI] npm with provenance by @aricart in #599
• [CI] added clean before publish by @aricart in #600
• readme and bench updates related to noAsyncTraces by @aricart in #602
• Simplify and relax issue forms further by @bruth in #598
• [BUMP] nbc, client and dep versions by @aricart in #604

Full Changelog: v2.17.0...v2.18.0