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Release Notes v0.18.5

Release Date: 2026-03-09
Version: 0.18.5
Type: Maintenance Release

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📋 Overview

This is a maintenance release that focuses on documentation improvements and code quality enhancements. The release fixes cross-reference syntax issues in docstrings across the entire codebase, ensuring better documentation rendering and link consistency.

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🧹 Changes

Documentation Reference Fixes

• Fixed cross-reference syntax in docstrings by removing unnecessary @ref macros
• Updated references in src/Exceptions/types.jl for cleaner documentation links
• Updated references in src/Descriptions/ module files for consistency
• Updated references in extension files:
  • ext/TestRunner.jl
  • ext/DocumenterReference.jl
  • ext/CoveragePostprocessing.jl
• Improved documentation rendering and link consistency across the codebase

Version Update

• Bumped version to 0.18.5 for maintenance release

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🔧 Technical Details

Files Modified

File	Changes
src/Exceptions/types.jl	Removed @ref from cross-references
src/Descriptions/catalog.jl	Updated docstring references
src/Descriptions/complete.jl	Updated docstring references
src/Descriptions/types.jl	Updated docstring references
ext/TestRunner.jl	Updated docstring references
ext/DocumenterReference.jl	Updated docstring references
ext/CoveragePostprocessing.jl	Updated docstring references
Project.toml	Version bump to 0.18.5

Documentation Impact

The changes improve:

• Link rendering in generated documentation
• Cross-reference consistency across all modules
• Documentation build reliability
• Developer experience when browsing API docs

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⚠️ Breaking Changes

None - This is a non-breaking maintenance release.

All public APIs remain unchanged. No migration is required.

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🔄 Upgrade Instructions

For Users

No action required. This is a transparent maintenance release.

For Developers

If you're building documentation locally, you may notice improved link rendering and cross-reference behavior.

# Update to latest version
using Pkg
Pkg.update("CTBase")

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Registration pull request created: JuliaRegistries/General/150082

Tagging

After the above pull request is merged, it is recommended that a tag is created on this repository for the registered package version.

This will be done automatically if the Julia TagBot GitHub Action is installed, or can be done manually through the github interface, or via:

git tag -a v0.18.5 -m "<description of version>" 4e389c9d70773df71846a049be454653f50f609a
git push origin v0.18.5