Pat v0.18.0 released

[LA5NTA]

Pat v0.18.0 has been released, and binaries for Linux, macOS and Windows are available at https://github.com/la5nta/pat/releases.

Changes:
* Add support for Message Pickup Station (MPS) management in the CLI
* Add an option to specify the ARDOP connect request count
* Configuration Live Reload:
  - Support for live reloading of the configuration via SIGHUP signals
  - The web interface automatically reloads when settings are changed
* Templates & Forms:
  - Add a text-only template editor to the web GUI
  - Add search functionality to the Forms catalog browser
  - Add support for the `{FormFolder}` tag in templates
  - Add a spinner during Standard Forms updates
  - Improved template parsing and detection
  - Fix duplicate subfolders in the form catalog listing
  - Fix parsing of ReplyTemplate template command
* Version Management:
  - Show a popup in the web GUI when a new release is available
  - Add a CLI option to check for updates (`pat version --check`)
* Busy Channel Detection:
  - Add busy channel detection for VARA HF and VARA FM
  - Show a prompt with an option to continue when waiting for a clear channel
  - Improve ARDOP busy channel detection and handling
* Onboarding:
  - Guide users toward safer, online account creation to prevent lockouts
  - Add the `pat init` command, a CLI wizard for basic configuration and account creation
  - Add an account creation wizard to the web interface
  - Prompt users to create a new account online before their first connection in the web interface
  - Add reminders to set a password recovery email
* CLI message reader/composer:
  - Refactor composer to unify interactive, non-interactive and template-based composition
  - Add message preview and confirmation prompt in interactive mode
  - Add option to forward message
  - Add option to delete message
* Web GUI:
  - Add "Edit as new..." message action
  - Show desktop notifications for prompts
  - Add a favicon
  - Fix highlighting of the active tab in the web interface navbar
  - Fix bug removing attachment from composer
  - Fix Telnet URI building
  - Fix unintentional QSY during the initial load of the GUI
* Web Config:
  - Fix VARA HF/FM bandwidth options
  - Prevent unwanted config saves on alias/schedule buttons

For more details, see milestones/v0.18.0 and compare/v0.17.0...v0.18.0.

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