Update changelog

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CHANGELOG.md

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-## v1.18.0-rc1 [2021-03-10]
+## v1.18.0 [2021-03-17]
 
 #### Release Notes
 
-  - Support Go version 1.16
+  - Support Go version 1.16.2
+  - Added support for code signing in Windows
 
 #### Bugfixes
 
@@ -22,6 +23,8 @@
   - [#8953](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/8953) `agent` Reset the flush interval timer when flush is requested or batch is ready.
   - [#8954](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/8954) `common.kafka` Fix max open requests to one if idempotent writes is set to true
   - [#8721](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/8721) `inputs.kube_inventory` Set $HOSTIP in default URL
+  - [#8995](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/8995) `inputs.sflow` fix segfaults in sflow plugin by checking if protocol headers are set
+  - [#8986](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/8986) `outputs.nats` nats_output: use the configured credentials file
 
 #### Features
 
@@ -29,19 +32,21 @@
   - [#8852](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/8852) `processors.starlark` Add Starlark script for estimating Line Protocol cardinality
   - [#8828](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/8828) `serializers.msgpack` Add MessagePack output data format
   - [#8915](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/8915) `inputs.cloudwatch` add proxy
-  - [#8910](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/8910) Display error message on badly formatted config string array (eg. namepass)
+  - [#8910](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/8910) `agent` Display error message on badly formatted config string array (eg. namepass)
   - [#8785](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/8785) `inputs.diskio` Non systemd support with unittest
   - [#8850](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/8850) `inputs.snmp` Support more snmpv3 authentication protocols
   - [#8813](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/8813) `inputs.redfish` added member_id as tag(as it is a unique value) for redfish plugin and added address of the server when the status is other than 200 for better debugging
   - [#8613](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/8613) `inputs.phpfpm` Support exclamation mark to create non-matching list in tail plugin
   - [#8179](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/8179) `inputs.statsd` Add support for datadog distributions metric
-  - [#8803](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/8803) Add default retry for load config via url
+  - [#8803](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/8803) `agent` Add default retry for load config via url
   - [#8816](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/8816) Code Signing for Windows
   - [#8772](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/8772) `processors.starlark` Allow to provide constants to a starlark script
   - [#8749](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/8749) `outputs.newrelic` Add HTTP proxy setting to New Relic output plugin
   - [#8543](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/8543) `inputs.elasticsearch` Add configurable number of 'most recent' date-stamped indices to gather in Elasticsearch input
   - [#8675](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/8675) `processors.starlark` Add Starlark parsing example of nested JSON
   - [#8762](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/8762) `inputs.prometheus` Optimize for bigger kubernetes clusters (500+ pods)
+  - [#8950](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/8950) `inputs.teamspeak` Teamspeak input plugin query clients
+  - [#8849](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/8849) `inputs.sqlserver` Filter data out from system databases for Azure SQL DB only
 
 #### New Input Plugins
 
@@ -57,6 +62,7 @@
   - [#8398](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/8398) Sensu Go Output Plugin for Telegraf
   - [#8450](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/8450) plugin: output loki
   - [#6714](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/6714) SignalFx Output
+  - [#8634](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/8634) Bigquery output
 
 #### New Aggregator Plugins
 
@@ -70,6 +76,7 @@
 #### New External Plugins
 
   - [#8897](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/8897) add SMCIPMITool input to external plugin list
+  - [#8898](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/8898) Add Plex Webhooks external plugin
 
 
 ## v1.17.3 [2021-02-17]

etc/telegraf.conf

@@ -343,6 +343,20 @@
 #   # endpoint_url = "https://monitoring.core.usgovcloudapi.net"
 
 
+# [[outputs.bigquery]]
+#   ## GCP Project
+#   project = "erudite-bloom-151019"
+#
+#   ## The BigQuery dataset
+#   dataset = "telegraf"
+#
+#   ## Timeout for BigQuery operations.
+#   # timeout = "5s"
+#
+#   ## Character to replace hyphens on Metric name
+#   # replace_hyphen_to = "_"
+
+
 # # Publish Telegraf metrics to a Google Cloud PubSub topic
 # [[outputs.cloud_pubsub]]
 #   ## Required. Name of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Project that owns
@@ -8180,4 +8194,3 @@
 # [[inputs.zipkin]]
 #   # path = "/api/v1/spans" # URL path for span data
 #   # port = 9411            # Port on which Telegraf listens
-