Bump for release

Author: pradyunsg

NEWS.rst

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 .. towncrier release notes start
 
+24.1b2 (2024-06-12)
+===================
+
+Features
+--------
+
+- Report informative messages about invalid requirements. (`#12713 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/12713>`_)
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+
+- Eagerly import the self version check logic to avoid crashes while upgrading or downgrading pip at the same time. (`#12675 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/12675>`_)
+- Accommodate for mismatches between different sources of truth for extra names, for packages generated by ``setuptools``. (`#12688 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/12688>`_)
+- Accommodate for development versions of CPython ending in ``+`` in the version string. (`#12691 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/12691>`_)
+
+Vendored Libraries
+------------------
+
+- Upgrade packaging to 24.1
+- Upgrade requests to 2.32.0
+- Remove vendored colorama
+- Remove vendored six
+- Remove vendored webencodings
+- Remove vendored charset_normalizer
+
+  ``requests`` provides optional character detection support on some APIs when processing ambiguous bytes. This isn't relevant for pip to function and we're able to remove it due to recent upstream changes.
+
 24.1b1 (2024-05-06)
 ===================