v0.18.0

What's Changed

• Proposal for multiple load of native programs. by @saxena-anurag in #3566
• Update regression tests to 0.17 by @saxena-anurag in #3642
• Enable building and signing eBPF for Windows by @Alan-Jowett in #3651
• Remove VC++ Redist package from installation instruction by @shpalani in #3636
• Remove netperf from daily schedule until it's fixed by @Alan-Jowett in #3654
• Simplify native module handle cleanup by @Alan-Jowett in #3653
• Add hint to LTCG that code should be inlined by @Alan-Jowett in #3658
• Fix conflict between Windows and ubpf headers by @Alan-Jowett in #3665
• Speedup ebpf_handle_table_terminate by avoiding acquire/release of lock by @Alan-Jowett in #3605
• Fix bpf conformance failure by @Alan-Jowett in #3666
• Set empty program name to hash of instructions by @mikeagun in #3493
• [StepSecurity] ci: Harden GitHub Actions by @step-security-bot in #3679
• Add batch map APIs in Doxygen documentation by @shpalani in #3652
• Update harden-runner for release scheduler by @dthaler in #3680
• Use context_header for tail call perf improvement by @saxena-anurag in #3698
• update version to 0.18.0 by @shankarseal in #3690
• Upgrade all C_ASSERT to static_assert by @Alan-Jowett in #3702
• [bpf_map_lookup_batch] Fix bpf_map_lookup_batch data retrieval and add test cases for percpu hash map batch lookup by @shpalani in #3590
• UM API to write into a ring buffer map. by @shankarseal in #3689
• Special case integer key sizes by @Alan-Jowett in #3710
• _ebpf_link_instance_invoke_with_context_header should call correct batch_end api by @Alan-Jowett in #3709
• Include export_program_info.exe in redist nuspec by @saxena-anurag in #3711
• Turn netperf on for daily runs by @Alan-Jowett in #3715
• Implement implicit_context for helper functions. by @saxena-anurag in #3656
• Add test case for program order in native module by @saxena-anurag in #3686
• Set errno for bpf_object__find_map_by_name by @shpalani in #3712

Full Changelog: Release-v0.17.0...Release-v0.18.0