chore(main): release 1.18.0 (#2029)

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Co-authored-by: Anthonios Partheniou <partheniou@google.com>

Author: release-please[bot]

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
 # Changelog
 
 
+## [1.18.0](https://github.com/googleapis/gapic-generator-python/compare/v1.17.1...v1.18.0) (2024-05-08)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* Add support for reading google.api.api_version ([#1999](https://github.com/googleapis/gapic-generator-python/issues/1999)) ([b2486e5](https://github.com/googleapis/gapic-generator-python/commit/b2486e5630312fb01b9eb5ffb09c9f0328fbce20))
+
 ## [1.17.1](https://github.com/googleapis/gapic-generator-python/compare/v1.17.0...v1.17.1) (2024-04-26)
 
 

setup.py

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 name = "gapic-generator"
 description = "Google API Client Generator for Python"
 url = "https://github.com/googleapis/gapic-generator-python"
-version = "1.17.1"
+version = "1.18.0"
 release_status = "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable"
 dependencies = [
     # Ensure that the lower bounds of these dependencies match what we have in the