v1.18.0

Features

• add deprecated annotation and tag to bq storage alpha api (#978) (c7da342)
• re-generated to pick up changes from googleapis. (#982) (17bfbd8)

Bug Fixes

• Cleanup JsonWriter bytes conversion code and add some test coverage (#984) (e43df34)

Documentation

• update region tag for the storage quickstart (#985) (1d0d6c3)

Dependencies

• update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-bigquery to v1.127.12 (#986) (d39bd79)
• update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v0.21.0 (#987) (4fa3dbb)