0.18.1: Bug fixes and performance improvements

Rerun is an easy-to-use visualization toolbox for multimodal and temporal data.
Try it live at https://rerun.io/viewer.

• Python: pip install rerun-sdk
• Rust: cargo add rerun and cargo install rerun-cli --locked
• Online demo: https://rerun.io/viewer/version/0.18.1/
• C++ FetchContent: https://github.com/rerun-io/rerun/releases/download/0.18.1/rerun_cpp_sdk.zip

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This patch release comes with the following fixes:

🌊 C++ API

• Install sdk_info.h even if RERUN_INSTALL_RERUN_C option is OFF #7246 (thanks @traversaro!)

🐍 Python API

• Fix VisualizerOverrides serializer and improved error handling #7288

🦀 Rust API

• Add rerun::external::ndarray #7259
• Handle proper half-size splatting semantics in from_mins_and_sizes #7291

🪳 Bug fixes

• Fix error when trying to clear non-existent component #7215
• Fix gamma (srgb EOTF) for GLTF via Asset3D embedded rgb(a) textures #7251
• Fix Chunk::component_batch_raw not checking the bitmap first #7286
• Fix and test all known HybridResults issues from 0.18 #7297
• Fix secondary plot components ignoring blueprint defaults #7302
• Fix relayout on tab background click #7283

🚀 Performance improvements

• Speed up data density graph by rendering them more coarsly #7229
• Default RERUN_CHUNK_MAX_BYTES to 384kiB instead of 4MiB #7263
• Speed up handling of large numbers of transform entities #7300
• Fix memory leak by updating to re_arrow2 0.17.5 #7262

🖼 UI improvements

• Hide time controls if there is only one time point on a timeline #7241

📦 Dependencies

• Correct dependency on puffin to 0.19.1, preventing a possible build failure #7221 (thanks @kpreid!)
• Update time crate to 0.3.36, fixing compilation on newer Rust versions #7228