Release changelog for 2.18.1

Hello snapcrafters!

We are pleased to announce the release of version 2.18.1 of snapcraft:
https://launchpad.net/snapcraft/+milestone/2.18.1

It is still spring (in some hemispheres), in this point release we bring in:

• Fixes to the way ordered dicts are used in the parts loader.
• The python plugin does not filter out .pth files anymore.
• snapcraft search now returns an ordered list of mathing remote parts.

Details can be seen on the milestones page.

This release has seen many contributions from outside of the snapcraft
core team, so we want to give a shout out to these folks, here's a team
thank you for:

• Carlo Lobrano
• Sam Yaple

To consume the latest snapcraft release on Xenial Xerus (16.04), we
suggest you install the snapcraft package from the Ubuntu Archives:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapcraft

To get the source for this release check it out at
https://github.com/ubuntu-core/snapcraft/releases/tag/2.18.1

A great place to collaborate and discuss features, bugs and ideas on
snapcraft is [email protected] mailing list or directly in
the #snappy channel on irc.freenode.net.

To file bugs, please go to https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapcraft/+filebug.

Happy snapcrafting,
-- Sergio and the team