chore: Merge enhance/blob-preview-display and bump to 2.0.0a18

Merge PR #1330 (blob preview display) into feature/npy-codec.
Bump version from 2.0.0a17 to 2.0.0a18.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: dimitri-yatsenko

src/datajoint/version.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # version bump auto managed by Github Actions:
 # label_prs.yaml(prep), release.yaml(bump), post_release.yaml(edit)
 # manually set this version will be eventually overwritten by the above actions
-__version__ = "2.0.0a17"
+__version__ = "2.0.0a18"