v_1.18.0

What's Changed

• JVM Flags access API by @jbachorik in #149
• Fix J9 JVM thread-bridge by @jbachorik in #151
• Default to non-ASGCT samplers on J9 by @jbachorik in #152
• Add sanity test for Java version retrieval in native code by @jbachorik in #153
• Downstream aarch64 related fixes by @jbachorik in #154
• cstack=vm support for JDK 23+ by @jbachorik in #157
• Fix GHA on aarch64 runners by @jbachorik in #158
• Enable JDK binaries caching in CI by @jbachorik in #159
• Enable caching of Gradle binaries and dependencies by @jbachorik in #160
• Improve debuggability of failing profiler tests by @jbachorik in #161
• Defensive access to JMX for heap usage by @jbachorik in #162
• More fixes for the flaky NativeLibrariesTest by @jbachorik in #163
• Add safeguard for J9-specific jmethodid unloading behaviour (version-dependent) by @MattAlp in #164

Full Changelog: v_1.17.0...v_1.18.0