chore(release): v0.18.5 (#1027)

* chore(release): v0.18.5

- Update version from 0.18.4 to 0.18.5
- Add v0.18.5 sections to CHANGELOG, README, docs/UPDATE.md, metainfo.xml and the website changelog
- Bump website package metadata and softwareVersion schema
- Add the 0.18.5 row to the RELEASE_PROCESS version history

* docs(release): qualify the clipboard-history claim for wl-copy 2.2+

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Co-authored-by: Jatin K Malik <jatinkrmalik@gmail.com>

web/src/app/changelog/page.tsx

@@ -14,6 +14,21 @@ import { SeoSubpageShell } from "@/components/seo-subpage-shell";
 import { absoluteUrl, buildPageMetadata } from "@/lib/seo";
 
 const releases = [
+  {
+    version: "v0.18.5",
+    date: "2026-10-27",
+    type: "stable",
+    highlights: [
+      "A stop pressed while a recording is starting can no longer leave the microphone recording forever (PR #1023)",
+      "A microphone that stalls mid-read can no longer hang dictation in PROCESSING; capture reads happen outside the buffer lock (PR #1023)",
+      "Keyboards survive suspend and the GNOME lock screen again: the evdev grab is released when forwarding cannot run (PR #1025)",
+      "Dictation Pad and Settings no longer bind to other windows or travel workspaces together on Wayland (PR #1024)",
+      "Ctrl+mouse-wheel zoom works again in Firefox and other apps (PR #967)",
+      "install.sh gains an upgrade mode that keeps your existing configuration and models (PR #1026)",
+      "Paste-injection copies are marked sensitive on wl-clipboard 2.2+, so clipboard managers that honor the hint keep dictated text out of history (PR #956); AUR source publication is gated on attested sdists (PR #1020)",
+      "Tray prefers libayatana-appindicator (PR #1019), the Snap lists PulseAudio microphones (PR #1018), and the Wayland fallback overlay survives dock closes (PR #1017)",
+    ],
+  },
   {
     version: "v0.18.4",
     date: "2026-10-21",
@@ -523,7 +538,7 @@ export default function ChangelogPage() {
     headline: "Vocalinux Changelog - Release History",
     description:
       "Complete release history for Vocalinux, the offline voice dictation software for Linux.",
-    dateModified: "2026-10-21",
+    dateModified: "2026-10-27",
     author: {
       "@type": "Person",
       name: "Jatin K Malik",

web/src/app/page.tsx

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ const homeJsonLd = [
     },
     description:
       "Offline voice dictation and speech-to-text for Linux with whisper.cpp, Faster Whisper, Whisper, VOSK, and Parakeet.",
-    softwareVersion: "0.18.4",
+    softwareVersion: "0.18.5",
     author: {
       "@type": "Person",
       name: "Jatin K Malik",