Merge pull request #1872 from VWS-Python/dependabot/pip/vale-3.18.0.0

Bump vale from 3.17.1.0 to 3.18.0.0

Author: github-actions[bot]

pyproject.toml

@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ optional-dependencies.dev = [
     "towncrier==25.8.0",
     "ty==0.0.73",
     "types-requests==2.33.0.20260712",
-    "vale==3.17.1.0",
+    "vale==3.18.0.0",
     "vulture==2.16",
     "vws-python-mock==2026.2.22.3",
     "yamlfix==1.19.1",