chore(main): release sqlalchemy-bigquery 1.18.0

Author: release-please[bot]

.release-please-individual-manifest.json

@@ -18,6 +18,6 @@
   "packages/google-cloud-storage": "3.17.1",
   "packages/google-crc32c": "1.9.0",
   "packages/pandas-gbq": "0.35.3",
-  "packages/sqlalchemy-bigquery": "1.17.3",
+  "packages/sqlalchemy-bigquery": "1.18.0",
   "packages/sqlalchemy-spanner": "1.20.1"
 }

librarian.yaml

@@ -2692,7 +2692,7 @@ libraries:
     python:
       library_type: CORE
   - name: sqlalchemy-bigquery
-    version: 1.17.3
+    version: 1.18.0
     python:
       library_type: INTEGRATION
   - name: sqlalchemy-spanner

packages/sqlalchemy-bigquery/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -8,6 +8,20 @@ Older versions of this project were distributed as [pybigquery][0].
 
 [1]: https://pypi.org/project/sqlalchemy-bigquery/#history
 
+## [1.18.0](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/compare/sqlalchemy-bigquery-v1.17.3...sqlalchemy-bigquery-v1.18.0) (2026-11-10)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* **sqlalchemy-bigquery:** support BigQuery SAFE_CAST and SQLAlchemy 2.0 try_cast ([#18953](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/issues/18953)) ([931968b](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/commit/931968b1629f978175b43ae815659da26da9ac1d))
+* support Python 3.15 ([8fceef4](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/commit/8fceef49c523bcc8989abf3b6b82bcf143332d50))
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* **sqlalchemy-bigquery:** compile func.now() to CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ([#18994](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/issues/18994)) ([07df830](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/commit/07df830df39418ca91937fe1cb25c19fcc3e950f))
+* **sqlalchemy-bigquery:** restore String bindparam type for GeoAlchemy2 0.21.0 ([#18985](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/issues/18985)) ([edc4372](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/commit/edc4372a4bb08eab6086e5b4d4bd4e80f68b06c1))
+
 ## [1.17.3](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/compare/sqlalchemy-bigquery-v1.17.2...sqlalchemy-bigquery-v1.17.3) (2026-10-02)
 
 

packages/sqlalchemy-bigquery/sqlalchemy_bigquery/version.py

@@ -17,4 +17,4 @@
 # IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN
 # CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
 
-__version__ = "1.17.3"
+__version__ = "1.18.0"