chore(deps): update dependency astral-sh/uv to v0.9.18

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Type	Update	Change
astral-sh/uv	uses-with	patch	0.9.17 -> 0.9.18

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Release Notes

astral-sh/uv (astral-sh/uv)

v0.9.18

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Released on 2025-12-16.

Enhancements

• Add value hints to command line arguments to improve shell completion accuracy (#​17080)
• Improve error handling in uv publish (#​17096)
• Improve rendering of multiline error messages (#​17132)
• Support redirects in uv publish (#​17130)
• Include Docker images with the alpine version, e.g., python3.x-alpine3.23 (#​17100)

Configuration

• Accept --torch-backend in [tool.uv] (#​17116)

Performance

• Speed up uv cache size (#​17015)
• Initialize S3 signer once (#​17092)

Bug fixes

• Avoid panics due to reads on failed requests (#​17098)
• Enforce latest-version in @latest requests (#​17114)
• Explicitly set EntryType for file entries in tar (#​17043)
• Ignore pyproject.toml index username in lockfile comparison (#​16995)
• Relax error when using uv add with UV_GIT_LFS set (#​17127)
• Support file locks on ExFAT on macOS (#​17115)
• Change schema for exclude-newer into optional string (#​17121)

Documentation

• Drop arm musl caveat from Docker documentation (#​17111)
• Fix version reference in resolver example (#​17085)
• Better documentation for exclude-newer* (#​17079)

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