v18.0.1 release notes to main (#14579)

Signed-off-by: Harshit Gangal <[email protected]>

Author: harshit-gangal

changelog/18.0/18.0.1/changelog.md

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+# Changelog of Vitess v18.0.1
+
+### Bug fixes 
+#### Backup and Restore
+ * [release 18.0]: `ReadBinlogFilesTimestamps` backwards compatibility [#14526](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/14526) 
+#### Build/CI
+ * [release-18.0] Update create_release.sh (#14492) [#14516](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/14516) 
+#### Evalengine
+ * [release-18.0] Fix nullability checks in evalengine (#14556) [#14564](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/14564) 
+#### Examples
+ * [release-18.0] examples: fix flag syntax for zkctl (#14469) [#14487](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/14487) 
+#### Observability
+ * [release-18.0] Fix #14414:  resilient_server metrics name/prefix logic is inverted, leading to no metrics being recorded (#14415) [#14527](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/14527) 
+#### Query Serving
+ * [release-18.0] Make column resolution closer to MySQL (#14426) [#14430](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/14430)
+ * [release-18.0] Bug fix: Use target tablet from health stats cache when checking replication status (#14436) [#14456](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/14456)
+ * [release-18.0] Ensure hexval and int don't share BindVar after Normalization (#14451) [#14479](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/14479)
+ * [release-18.0] planbuilder bugfix: expose columns through derived tables (#14501) [#14504](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/14504)
+ * [release-18.0] expression rewriting: enable more rewrites and limit CNF rewrites (#14560) [#14576](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/14576) 
+#### vtctldclient
+ * [release-18.0] vtctldclient: Apply tablet type filtering for keyspace+shard in GetTablets (#14467) [#14470](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/14470)
+### CI/Build 
+#### Docker
+ * [release-18.0] Build and push Docker Images from GitHub Actions [#14511](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/14511)
+### Dependabot 
+#### General
+ * [release-18.0] Bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.55.0-dev to 1.59.0 (#14364) [#14498](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/14498)
+### Documentation 
+#### Documentation
+ * [release-18.0] release notes: add FK import to summary (#14518) [#14519](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/14519)
+### Internal Cleanup 
+#### Query Serving
+ * [release-18.0] Remove excessive VTGate logging of default planner selection (#14554) [#14561](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/14561)
+### Release 
+#### General
+ * [release-18.0] Code Freeze for `v18.0.1` [#14549](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/14549)
+### Testing 
+#### Query Serving
+ * [release-18.0] vtgate: Allow additional errors in warnings test (#14461) [#14465](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/14465)
+

changelog/18.0/18.0.1/release_notes.md

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+# Release of Vitess v18.0.1
+The entire changelog for this release can be found [here](https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/blob/main/changelog/18.0/18.0.1/changelog.md).
+
+The release includes 17 merged Pull Requests.
+
+Thanks to all our contributors: @app/vitess-bot, @frouioui, @harshit-gangal, @shlomi-noach
+

changelog/18.0/README.md

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 ## v18.0
+* **[18.0.1](18.0.1)**
+	* [Changelog](18.0.1/changelog.md)
+	* [Release Notes](18.0.1/release_notes.md)
+
 * **[18.0.0](18.0.0)**
 	* [Changelog](18.0.0/changelog.md)
 	* [Release Notes](18.0.0/release_notes.md)