Release v2.4.0

[lan496]

Let's release type check (merged in #420) because the recent drop of ase.Atoms seems to cause surprise to not a few users.

TODO

• feat: Switch to importlib.resources #308
• feat: Mark C functions as deprecated #435
• feat: Explicitly mark exported API #437
• fix: Debug and warning messages #457
• ci: Test CMake version #431

@LecrisUT @atztogo Do you have any leftovers for the next minor version?

[atztogo]

Thanks @lan496. Let's do it.

[LecrisUT]

On my side only #308, everything else can be bumped up

[LecrisUT]

Let's see how #435 goes, if all goes well, it would make sense to include it as well.

Edit: It actually works, so let's add it in as well
Edit2: Might be worth having #437 as well. That one solves a windows issue

[LecrisUT]

Small note, @lan496 when you make the release note, check that they are in order and not duplicated

[lan496]

Thank you both! I've updated the todo list in the first comment.

[LecrisUT]

I've added 2 PRs for this release since it seems it is a major nuisance to the users

[lan496]

@atztogo @LecrisUT Can I go on to releasing v2.4.0?

[LecrisUT]

On the feature side, all is good. Milestone wise there is #459 we can include, would be nice to have the full CI checks green again.

But don't forget to fix the changelog.md before tagging. There are duplicated Python interface and C interface sections that sneaked in some rebase

[lan496]

@LecrisUT Thanks. Then, let's release the next version after merging #459.

[LecrisUT]

Need to investigate #469 and #468, depending on the result, it might be easier to post a bugfix. But until then, let's hold off creating the release manually

[chenrui333]

also need a github release cc @lan496

relates to Homebrew/homebrew-core#168648

[LecrisUT]

The release is in draft, but we are holding off until any PR or commit is added #468 (comment). The issue is about scikit-build/scikit-build-core#695, where the tar archive changes after a single commit is added due to %D in .git_archival.txt. I am investigating now if there is any fix for it