chore: bump go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk from 1.42.0 to 1.43.0 (#10044)

chore: Upgrade golang version to 1.26.2 (#10043)

chore: bump rack from 2.2.22 to 2.2.23 in /examples/ruby/backend (#10035)

chore: bump rack from 2.2.22 to 2.2.23 in /integration/examples/ruby/backend (#10036)

chore: bump github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4 from 4.1.3 to 4.1.4 (#10037)

chore: bump github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4 from 4.1.3 to 4.1.4 in /examples/grpc-e2e-tests/service (#10038)

chore: bump github.com/go-git/go-git/v5 from 5.17.0 to 5.17.1 (#10032)

chore: bump github.com/moby/buildkit from 0.28.0 to 0.28.1 (#10028)

chore: bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.56.3 to 1.79.3 in /examples/grpc-e2e-tests/service (#10022)

chore: bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.79.2 to 1.79.3 (#10018)

fix: update gcr.io/kpt-fn/ to ghcr.io/kptdev/krm-functions-catalog fo… (#10020)

chore: Release 2.18 (#10010)

chore: Upgrade golang version to 1.25.8 (#10009)

chore: bumping up docker cli to address CVE-2025-15558 (#10008)

chore: bump actions/upload-artifact from 6 to 7 in the github-actions group (#9998)