upgrade to 0.18.0 (#7502)

### What this PR does / why we need it?
1. upgrade to 0.18.0
2. ensure kernel_block_sizes is int for Eagle drafter
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?

### How was this patch tested?

- vLLM version: v0.17.0
- vLLM main:
8b6325758c

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Signed-off-by: Meihan-chen <jcccx.cmh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: hfadzxy <starmoon_zhang@163.com>
Co-authored-by: hfadzxy <starmoon_zhang@163.com>

.github/workflows/_e2e_nightly_multi_node.yaml

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ on:
         description: how many pods will be pulled up via lws.yaml, indicates number of nodes we need
       vllm_version:
         required: false
-        default: "v0.17.0"
+        default: "v0.18.0"
         type: string
         description: vllm version to use
       vllm_ascend_remote_url:

.github/workflows/_e2e_nightly_single_node.yaml

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ on:
       vllm_version:
         required: false
         type: string
-        default: "v0.17.0"
+        default: "v0.18.0"
       is_pr_test:
         required: true
         type: boolean

.github/workflows/pr_test_full.yaml

@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ jobs:
     name: e2e-full
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        vllm_version: [8b6325758cce5f9c36d38f2462edbd368b97a07c, v0.17.0]
+        vllm_version: [8b6325758cce5f9c36d38f2462edbd368b97a07c, v0.18.0]
     needs: [changes]
     if: ${{ needs.changes.outputs.e2e_tracker == 'true' || needs.changes.outputs.e2e_tracker == true }}
     uses: ./.github/workflows/_e2e_test.yaml

.github/workflows/pr_test_light.yaml

@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ jobs:
     if: ${{ needs.lint.result == 'success' && (needs.changes.outputs.e2e_tracker == 'true' || needs.changes.outputs.ut_tracker == 'true') }}
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        vllm_version: [8b6325758cce5f9c36d38f2462edbd368b97a07c, v0.17.0]
+        vllm_version: [8b6325758cce5f9c36d38f2462edbd368b97a07c, v0.18.0]
     uses: ./.github/workflows/_unit_test.yaml
     with:
       vllm: ${{ matrix.vllm_version }}
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ jobs:
     name: e2e-light
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        vllm_version: [8b6325758cce5f9c36d38f2462edbd368b97a07c, v0.17.0]
+        vllm_version: [8b6325758cce5f9c36d38f2462edbd368b97a07c, v0.18.0]
     # Note (yikun): If CI resource are limited we can split job into two chain jobs
     needs: [lint, changes]
     # only trigger e2e test after lint passed and the change is e2e related with pull request.

.github/workflows/schedule_nightly_test_a2.yaml

@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ jobs:
               - Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct
     uses: ./.github/workflows/_e2e_nightly_single_node_models.yaml
     with:
-      vllm: v0.17.0
+      vllm: v0.18.0
       runner: ${{ matrix.test_config.os }}
       model_list: ${{ toJson(matrix.test_config.model_list) }}
       image: 'swr.cn-southwest-2.myhuaweicloud.com/base_image/ascend-ci/cann:8.5.1-910b-ubuntu22.04-py3.11'

.github/workflows/schedule_test_benchmarks.yaml

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         include:
-          - vllm_branch: v0.17.0
+          - vllm_branch: v0.18.0
             vllm_ascend_branch: main
       max-parallel: 1
     container:

.github/workflows/schedule_update_estimated_time.yaml

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ jobs:
     name: e2e-test
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        vllm_version: [v0.17.0]
+        vllm_version: [v0.18.0]
         type: [full, light]
     uses: ./.github/workflows/_e2e_test.yaml
     with: