18.0.0 (2023-10-20)

• chore!: minimum node version v18 (#3644) (5b4aeaf), closes #3644
• chore: remove unused types
• docs: prepare node update and new release
• ci: remove node v14/16 checks
• chore: adjust node types to minimal supported version
• docs: simplify releases and remove roadmap

BREAKING CHANGES

• drop node v14 and v16 support
• drop TS v4 support
• further major versions of other deps
  upgrade conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits, conventional-commits-parser, conventional-changelog-atom,

Full Changelog: v17.8.1...v18.0.0