build: bump version to 1.11.18, update NEWS.org

NEWS.org

@@ -43,12 +43,17 @@
     - restore expansion for path options such as ~--maildir=~/Maildir~ (to e.g.
  ~/home/user/Maildir~) for shells that don't do that, such as Bash.
 
-    - updated query-parser; this is (should be) compatible with the older one,
-      apart from a number of fixes. There is a new option ~--analyze~ to ~mu find~
-      which shows the parsed query in a human-readable s-expression form; this
-      can be used to debug your queries (this replaces the older
+    - overhauled query-parser; this is (should be) compatible with the older
+      one, apart from a number of fixes. There is a new option ~--analyze~ to ~mu
+      find~ which shows the parsed query in a human-readable s-expression form;
+      this can be used to debug your queries (this replaces the older
  ~--format=mquery|xquery~)
 
+      Furthermore, there now support for the "ngram"-based indexing and
+      querying, which is useful for languages/scripts without explicit
+      word-breaks. See the *mu-init* manpages, in particular the ~--support-ngrams~
+      option, and why you may (or may not) want to enable that.
+
 *** mu4e
 
     - New command ~mu4e-search-query~ (bound to =c=) which lets you pick a query

meson.build

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 ################################################################################
 # project setup
 project('mu', ['c', 'cpp'],
-        version: '1.11.17',
+        version: '1.11.18',
         meson_version: '>= 0.56.0',
         license: 'GPL-3.0-or-later',
         default_options : [