Contributors ============ A total of 4 people contributed to this release. People with a "+" by their names contributed a patch 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 `__: MAINT, BLD: Pin rtools to version 4.0 for Windows builds. * `#23739 `__: BUG: fix the method for checking local files for 1.24.x * `#23760 `__: MAINT: Copy rtools installation from install-rtools. * `#23761 `__: BUG: Fix masked array ravel order for A (and somewhat K) * `#23890 `__: TYP,DOC: Annotate and document the ``metadata`` parameter of... * `#23994 `__: MAINT: Update rtools installation