release: bump version to 2.4.0

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Added

• Add solver.min-release-age setting to require package releases to be a certain number of days old before they are considered during dependency resolution (#10824).
• Add solver.min-release-age-exclude to exclude selected packages from age filtering (#10824).
• Add solver.min-release-age-exclude-source to exclude all packages from selected package indexes from age filtering (#10824).

Changed

• Raise an error instead of silently ignoring a package name that is not a dependency when it is passed to poetry update (#10721).
• Automatically add a trailing slash to legacy repository URLs (used for publishing) if missing (#10785).
• Require installer>=1.0.0 (#10869).
• Allow findpython>=0.8 (#10874).

Fixed

• Fix an issue where requires-plugins fails on Windows if scheme paths are on different drives (#10869).
• Fix an issue where the order of markers in the lock file was not deterministic (#10720).
• Fix an issue where the wrong command was suggested when poetry self commands failed due to an outdated lock file (#10715).
• Fix an issue where poetry env activate did not work for bash on Windows (#10716).
• Fix an issue where poetry debug resolve failed when there was a package with a marker (#10807).
• Fix an issue where the error message about a build backend failure contained garbled --config-settings (#10804).
• Fix an issue where a false warning about a circular dependency was printed (#10811).
• Fix an issue where falsy config values were incorrectly treated as not set (#10808).
• Fix an issue where poetry publish --build ignored failing builds and uploaded stale artifacts (#10802).
• Fix an issue where poetry publish was aborted instead of retrying after package registration (#10801).
• Fix an issue where zip files were not closed after fetching metadata via lazy-wheel (#10800).
• Fix an issue where data fetched via lazy-wheel was corrupted when part of it had already been cached (#10806).
• Fix an issue where further packages were installed even though installation should be aborted (#10742).
• Fix an issue where installed packages without a METADATA file caused an exception on Python 3.15+ (#10860).
• Fix an issue where http-basic could not be set for repository names with periods (#10845).
• Fix an issue where calculating the hash of large wheels failed with a memory error (#10814).

Docs

• Clarify the precedence of configuration sources (#10757).
• Add a note about the influence of .gitignore on tool.poetry.packages (#10835).

poetry-core (2.4.0)

• Update vendored packaging to 26.2 (#936).

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