ci: adopt shared orb 0.7.18

Co-Authored-By: Codex <noreply@openai.com>

.circleci/config.yml

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 version: 2.1
 setup: true
 orbs:
-  qqq-orb: kingsrook/qqq-orb@0.8
+  qqq-orb: kingsrook/qqq-orb@0.7.18
 workflows:
   setup:
     jobs:
     - qqq-orb/generate_pipeline:
-        orb_version: '0.8'
+        orb_version: 0.7.18
         filters:
           branches:
             ignore: automation/qbit-rc-pending

.gitea/workflows/build.yaml

@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-name: build
-on:
-  push:
-jobs:
-  maven:
-    uses: self:KofTwentyTwo/ci-workflows/.gitea/workflows/maven.yaml@v1
-    secrets: inherit

.qqq-ci.yml

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 profile: qbit
-orb_version: '0.8'
+orb_version: 0.7.18
 default_branch: develop
 java_version: '21'
 browsers: true

pom.xml

@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
 
    <properties>
-      <qqq.version>4.1.0-RC.26</qqq.version> <!-- feeds qbit-build-parent's qqq-bom-pom import -->
       <revision>0.1.0-SNAPSHOT</revision>
       <maven.compiler.source>21</maven.compiler.source>
       <maven.compiler.target>21</maven.compiler.target>
@@ -34,7 +33,7 @@
    <parent>
       <groupId>com.kingsrook</groupId>
       <artifactId>qbit-build-parent</artifactId>
-      <version>2.2.1</version>
+      <version>2.0.0</version>
    </parent>
 
    <groupId>com.kingsrook.qbits</groupId>
@@ -87,7 +86,7 @@
       <dependency>
          <groupId>com.kingsrook.qbits</groupId>
          <artifactId>qbit-object-storage</artifactId>
-         <version>0.1.0-RC.10</version>
+         <version>0.1.0-RC.2</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
          <groupId>com.kingsrook.qqq</groupId>
@@ -96,7 +95,7 @@
       <dependency>
          <groupId>com.kingsrook.qqq</groupId>
          <artifactId>qqq-frontend-next</artifactId>
-         <version>1.0.0-RC.38</version>
+         <version>1.0.0-RC.14</version>
          <scope>test</scope>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
@@ -232,7 +231,7 @@
          </activation>
          <properties>
             <!-- Latest QQQ RC on Maven Central (2026-10-13). -->
-            <qqq.snapshot.version>4.1.0-RC.26</qqq.snapshot.version>
+            <qqq.snapshot.version>4.1.0-RC.5</qqq.snapshot.version>
          </properties>
          <dependencyManagement>
             <dependencies>