Release 2.4.0 (#406)

Release PR for 2.4.0

* changelog
* version bump

README.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <a href="https://skpro.readthedocs.io/en/latest"><img src="https://github.com/sktime/skpro/blob/main/docs/source/images/skpro-banner.png" width="500" align="right" /></a>
 
-:rocket: **Version 2.3.2 out now!** [Read the release notes here.](https://skpro.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html).
+:rocket: **Version 2.4.0 out now!** [Read the release notes here.](https://skpro.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html).
 
 `skpro` is a library for supervised probabilistic prediction in python.
 It provides `scikit-learn`-like, `scikit-base` compatible interfaces to:

docs/source/_static/switcher.json

@@ -5,7 +5,12 @@
     "url": "https://skpro.readthedocs.io/en/latest/"
   },
   {
-    "name": "2.3.2 (stable)",
+    "name": "2.4.0 (stable)",
+    "version": "stable",
+    "url": "https://skpro.readthedocs.io/en/v2.4.0/"
+  },
+  {
+    "name": "2.3.2",
     "version": "stable",
     "url": "https://skpro.readthedocs.io/en/v2.3.2/"
   },

docs/source/changelog.rst

@@ -16,6 +16,25 @@ For planned changes and upcoming releases, see roadmap in the
 `issue tracker <https://github.com/sktime/skpro/issues>`_.
 
 
+[2.4.0] - 2024-06-23
+====================
+
+Maintenance release with ``numpy 2.0.X`` compatibility, scheduled
+deprecations and updates.
+
+Dependency changes
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* ``numpy`` bounds have been updated to ``>=1.21.0,<2.1.0``.
+
+Contents
+--------
+
+* [MNT] increase ``numpy`` bound to ``numpy < 2.1``, ``numpy 2`` compatibility
+  (:pr:`393`) :user:`fkiraly`
+* [MNT] 2.4.0 deprecations and change actions (:pr:`404`) :user:`fkiraly`
+
+
 [2.3.2] - 2024-06-22
 ====================
 

pyproject.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "skpro"
-version = "2.3.2"
+version = "2.4.0"
 description = "A unified framework for probability distributions and probabilistic supervised regression"
 authors = [
     {name = "skpro developers", email = "[email protected]"},

skpro/__init__.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 """skpro."""
 
-__version__ = "2.3.2"
+__version__ = "2.4.0"
 
 __all__ = ["show_versions"]