This PR contains the following updates:

| Package | Type | Update | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| [babel](https://babel.pocoo.org/) ([source](https://github.com/python-babel/babel)) | packages | minor | `==2.17.0` → `==2.18.0` |

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### Release Notes

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<summary>python-babel/babel (babel)</summary>

### [`v2.18.0`](https://github.com/python-babel/babel/blob/HEAD/CHANGES.rst#Version-2180)

[Compare Source](python-babel/babel@v2.17.0...v2.18.0)

Happy 2026! This release is, coincidentally, also being made from FOSDEM.

We will aspire for a slightly less glacial release cadence in this year;
there are interesting features in the pipeline.

Features

```

* Core: Add `babel.core.get_cldr_version()` by @&#8203;akx in :gh:`1242`
* Core: Use CLDR 47 by @&#8203;tomasr8 in :gh:`1210`
* Core: Use canonical IANA zone names in zone_territories by @&#8203;akx in :gh:`1220`
* Messages: Improve extract performance via ignoring directories early during os.walk by @&#8203;akx in :gh:`968`
* Messages: Merge in per-format keywords and auto_comments by @&#8203;akx in :gh:`1243`
* Messages: Update keywords for extraction of dpgettext and dnpgettext by @&#8203;mardiros in :gh:`1235`
* Messages: Validate all plurals in Python format checker by @&#8203;tomasr8 in :gh:`1188`
* Time: Use standard library `timezone` instead of `FixedOffsetTimezone` by @&#8203;akx in :gh:`1203`

Bugfixes
```

- Core: Fix formatting for "Empty locale identifier" exception added in [#&#8203;1164](python-babel/babel#1164) by [@&#8203;akx](https://github.com/akx) in :gh:`1184`
- Core: Improve handling of no-inheritance-marker in timezone data by [@&#8203;akx](https://github.com/akx) in :gh:`1194`
- Core: Make the number pattern regular expression more efficient by [@&#8203;akx](https://github.com/akx) in :gh:`1213`
- Messages: Keep translator comments next to the translation function call by [@&#8203;akx](https://github.com/akx) in :gh:`1196`
- Numbers: Fix KeyError that occurred when formatting compact currencies of exactly one thousand in several locales  by [@&#8203;bartbroere](https://github.com/bartbroere) in :gh:`1246`

Other improvements

```

* Core: Avoid unnecessary uses of `map()` by @&#8203;akx in :gh:`1180`
* Messages: Have init-catalog create directories too by @&#8203;akx in :gh:`1244`
* Messages: Optimizations for read_po by @&#8203;akx in :gh:`1200`
* Messages: Use pathlib.Path() in catalog frontend; improve test coverage by @&#8203;akx in :gh:`1204`

Infrastructure and documentation
```

- CI: Renovate CI & lint tools by [@&#8203;akx](https://github.com/akx) in :gh:`1228`
- CI: Tighten up CI with Zizmor by [@&#8203;akx](https://github.com/akx) in :gh:`1230`
- CI: make job permissions explicit by [@&#8203;akx](https://github.com/akx) in :gh:`1227`
- Docs: Add SECURITY.md by [@&#8203;akx](https://github.com/akx) in :gh:`1229`
- Docs: Remove u string prefix from docs by [@&#8203;verhovsky](https://github.com/verhovsky) in :gh:`1174`
- Docs: Update dates.rst with current unicode.org tr35 link by [@&#8203;clach04](https://github.com/clach04) in :gh:`1189`
- General: Add some PyPI classifiers by [@&#8203;tomasr8](https://github.com/tomasr8) in :gh:`1186`
- General: Apply reformatting by hand and with Ruff by [@&#8203;akx](https://github.com/akx) in :gh:`1202`
- General: Test on and declare support for Python 3.14 by [@&#8203;akx](https://github.com/akx) in :gh:`1233`
- Tests: Convert Unittest testcases with setup/teardown to fixtures by [@&#8203;akx](https://github.com/akx) in :gh:`1240`
- Tests: Mark PyPy CI flake as xfail by [@&#8203;akx](https://github.com/akx) in :gh:`1197`
- Tests: Move pytest config to `pyproject.toml` by [@&#8203;tomasr8](https://github.com/tomasr8) in :gh:`1187`
- Tests: Unwrap most `unittest` test cases to bare functions by [@&#8203;akx](https://github.com/akx) in :gh:`1241`

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