Merge pull request #24040 from charris/prepare-1.24.4-release

REL: Prepare for the NumPy 1.24.4 release

Author: charris

doc/changelog/1.24.4-changelog.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+
+Contributors
+============
+
+A total of 4 people contributed to this release. People with a "+" by their
+names contributed a for the first time.
+
+* Bas van Beek
+* Charles Harris
+* Sebastian Berg
+* Hongyang Peng +
+
+Pull requests merged
+====================
+
+A total of 6 pull requests were merged for this release.
+
+* `#23720 <https://.com/numpy/numpy/pull/23720>`__: MAINT, BLD: Pin rtools to version 4.0 for Windows builds.
+* `#23739 <https://.com/numpy/numpy/pull/23739>`__: BUG: fix the method for checking local files for 1.24.x
+* `#23760 <https://.com/numpy/numpy/pull/23760>`__: MAINT: Copy rtools installation from install-rtools.
+* `#23761 <https://.com/numpy/numpy/pull/23761>`__: BUG: Fix masked array ravel order for A (and somewhat K)
+* `#23890 <https://.com/numpy/numpy/pull/23890>`__: TYP,DOC: Annotate and document the ``metadata`` parameter of...
+* `#23994 <https://.com/numpy/numpy/pull/23994>`__: MAINT: Update rtools installation

doc/source/release/1.24.4-notes.rst

@@ -9,7 +9,23 @@ NumPy 1.24.4 is a maintenance release that fixes bugs and regressions discovered
 Contributors
 ============
 
+A total of 4 people contributed to this release. People with a "+" by their
+names contributed a for the first time.
+
+* Bas van Beek
+* Charles Harris
+* Sebastian Berg
+* Hongyang Peng +
 
 Pull requests merged
 ====================
 
+A total of 6 pull requests were merged for this release.
+
+* `#23720 <https://.com/numpy/numpy/pull/23720>`__: MAINT, BLD: Pin rtools to version 4.0 for Windows builds.
+* `#23739 <https://.com/numpy/numpy/pull/23739>`__: BUG: fix the method for checking local files for 1.24.x
+* `#23760 <https://.com/numpy/numpy/pull/23760>`__: MAINT: Copy rtools installation from install-rtools.
+* `#23761 <https://.com/numpy/numpy/pull/23761>`__: BUG: Fix masked array ravel order for A (and somewhat K)
+* `#23890 <https://.com/numpy/numpy/pull/23890>`__: TYP,DOC: Annotate and document the ``metadata`` parameter of...
+* `#23994 <https://.com/numpy/numpy/pull/23994>`__: MAINT: Update rtools installation
+