prepare for 1.24 release (#2143)

Author: oskooi

NEWS.md

@@ -1,5 +1,15 @@
 # Meep Release Notes
 
+## Meep 1.24.0
+
+7/21/2022
+
+* Support for adjoint gradients of local density of states (LDOS) ([#2077]).
+
+* Improvements to memory usage of adjoint solver ([#1855]).
+
+* Various bugfixes ([#1959], [#2044], [#2066], [#2073], [#2079], [#2091], [#2095], [#2114]) and additional unit tests ([#2032], [#2049], [#2053], [#2076], [#2082]).
+
 ## Meep 1.23.0
 
 4/6/2022

configure.ac

@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 # Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 
-AC_INIT([meep],[m4_esyscmd(./version.sh 1.24.0-beta)])
+AC_INIT([meep],[m4_esyscmd(./version.sh 1.24.0)])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(src/step.cpp)
 
 # Shared-library version number; indicates api compatibility, and is
 # not the same as the "public" version number.  (Don't worry about this
 # except for public releases.) Note that any change to a C++ class
 # definition (in the .hpp file) generally breaks binary compatibility.
-SHARED_VERSION_INFO="28:0:0" # CURRENT:REVISION:AGE
+SHARED_VERSION_INFO="29:0:0" # CURRENT:REVISION:AGE
 
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign color-tests parallel-tests silent-rules 1.11])
 AM_SILENT_RULES(yes)