Plan for LilyPond 2.24.3

[Jonas Hahnfeld]

Hi all,

I backported the first batch of commits yesterday, some more merge
requests are still tagged with the Backport label that I will take care
of later (including "official" support for Guile 3.0 unless somebody
objects until then). I plan to build the binaries on Saturday, November
18, and the final release on Sunday, November 19 - in the worst case
this may slip to Monday, but I don't really have much time then so
hopefully not...

The draft release announcement text is:
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We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.24.3. LilyPond
is a music engraving program devoted to producing the highest-quality
sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of traditionally
engraved music to computer printouts.

This version contains a number of fixes since the release of the
previous stable version in August 2023. We recommend all users to
update. Scores converted to or written for 2.24.0 will continue to work
with this release. A list of added features and other user-visible
changes for 2.24 can be found at
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/changes/. Among others,
version 2.24.0 switched to Guile 2.2 and features a completely
rewritten infrastructure for creating the official packages, finally
allowing us to offer 64-bit binaries for macOS and Windows. These pre-
built binaries are linked from https://lilypond.org/download.html and
available from GitLab:
https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/releases/v2.24.3

For distributions, LilyPond 2.24.3 most notably includes a fix to
restore PDF conversion with the recent Ghostscript 10.02.1. Also Guile
3.0 is now officially supported, even though the recommended version
will remain Guile 2.2 for the LilyPond 2.24 series.
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Cheers
Jonas

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