Preparing hbase release 2.4.18RC0; tagging and updates to CHANGES.md and RELEASENOTES.md

Signed-off-by: Duo Zhang <zhangduo@apache.org>
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 # HBASE Changelog
 
-## Release 2.4.18 - Unreleased (as of 2024-05-18)
+## Release 2.4.18 - Unreleased (as of 2024-05-21)
 
 
 
@@ -176,6 +176,7 @@
 | [HBASE-28575](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28575) | Always printing error log when snapshot table |  Minor | snapshots |
 | [HBASE-28598](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28598) | NPE for writer object access in AsyncFSWAL#closeWriter |  Major | wal |
 | [HBASE-28595](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28595) | Losing exception from scan RPC can lead to partial results |  Critical | regionserver, Scanners |
+| [HBASE-28599](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28599) | RowTooBigException is thrown when duplicate increment RPC call is attempted |  Major | regionserver |
 
 
 ### TESTS:
@@ -239,6 +240,7 @@
 | [HBASE-28333](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28333) | Refactor TestClientTimeouts to make it more clear that what we want to test |  Major | Client, test |
 | [HBASE-28444](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28444) | Bump org.apache.zookeeper:zookeeper from 3.8.3 to 3.8.4 |  Blocker | security, Zookeeper |
 | [HBASE-28574](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28574) | Bump jinja2 from 3.1.3 to 3.1.4 in /dev-support/flaky-tests |  Major | dependabot, scripts, security |
+| [HBASE-28607](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28607) | Bump requests from 2.31.0 to 2.32.0 in /dev-support/flaky-tests |  Major | dependabot, scripts, security |
 
 
 ## Release 2.4.17 - Unreleased (as of 2023-03-31)
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diff --git a/hbase-shaded/hbase-shaded-with-hadoop-check-invariants/pom.xml b/hbase-shaded/hbase-shaded-with-hadoop-check-invariants/pom.xml
index 4e8c007..ae6eeb3 100644
--- a/hbase-shaded/hbase-shaded-with-hadoop-check-invariants/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-shaded/hbase-shaded-with-hadoop-check-invariants/pom.xml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
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+    <version>2.4.18</version>
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diff --git a/hbase-shaded/pom.xml b/hbase-shaded/pom.xml
index 4ff93c1..43449b9 100644
--- a/hbase-shaded/pom.xml
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@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
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diff --git a/hbase-shell/pom.xml b/hbase-shell/pom.xml
index 5a4414f..7a7b0cf 100644
--- a/hbase-shell/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-shell/pom.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
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diff --git a/hbase-testing-util/pom.xml b/hbase-testing-util/pom.xml
index 03da8a8..577531c 100644
--- a/hbase-testing-util/pom.xml
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diff --git a/hbase-thrift/pom.xml b/hbase-thrift/pom.xml
index 2d5a450..b751434 100644
--- a/hbase-thrift/pom.xml
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diff --git a/hbase-zookeeper/pom.xml b/hbase-zookeeper/pom.xml
index 59307f2..de8a033 100644
--- a/hbase-zookeeper/pom.xml
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diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index da406fd..80b9bef 100755
--- a/pom.xml
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