Update Display Suite from 3.16.0 to 3.18.0 ( ~3 ) and remove committed patches

Problem/Motivation

Display Suite 8.x-3.17 was released on: 15 Jan 2024 by: swentel
https://www.drupal.org/project/ds/releases/8.x-3.17

Proposed resolution

• Change drupal/ds to ~3 in the composer.json file
• Remove committed patches:
  • #3373675: Fix PHP 8.2 Deprecated function: Creation of dynamic property Drupal\ds\Plugin\views\row\EntityRow::$entityLanguageRenderer
  • #3387318: [PHP8.1] Deprecated function: str_replace(): Passing null to parameter #3 ($subject) of type array|string
  • #3402783: Preview new node with Link to content
• Add the patch for #3415545: Provide entity context and limit to Entity types which only have View Builder Class

Remaining tasks

• ✅ File an issue about this project
• ✅ Addition/Change/Update/Fix to this project
• ✅ Testing to ensure no regression
• ➖ Automated unit/functional testing coverage
• ➖ Developer Documentation support on feature change/addition
• ➖ User Guide Documentation support on feature change/addition
• ➖ UX/UI designer responsibilities
• ➖ Accessibility and Readability
• ✅ Code review from 1 Varbase core team member
• ✅ Full testing and approval
• ✅ Credit contributors
• ✅ Review with the product owner
• ✅ Update Release Notes and Update Helper on new feature change/addition
• ✅ Release varbase-10.0.0-rc2,Varbase 9.1.1, varbase_core-9.1.22, varbase_core-10.0.11

Varbase update type

• ✅ No Update
• ➖ Optional Update
• ➖ Forced Update
• ➖ Forced Update if Unchanged

User interface changes

• N/A

API changes

• N/A

Data model changes

• N/A

Release notes snippet

• Issue #3414917: Updated Display Suite from 3.16.0 to 3.18.0 ( ~3 ) and removed committed patches