Prepare release 24.07
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+NFD version 24.07
+-----------------
+
+*Release date: July 28, 2024*
+
+Important changes and new features
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+- The build dependencies have been increased as follows:
+
+ - GCC >= 9.3 or Clang >= 7.0 are strongly *recommended* on Linux; GCC 8.x is also known
+ to work but is not officially supported
+ - Xcode 13 or later is *recommended* on macOS; older versions may still work but are not
+ officially supported
+ - Boost >= 1.71.0 is *required* on all platforms
+
+- Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble), Debian 12 (Bookworm), and macOS 14 (Sonoma) are now officially supported
+
+- Added an official Dockerfile to the repository. From this Dockerfile, the following images are
+ currently published to the GitHub container registry:
+
+ - `named-data/nfd <https://github.com/named-data/NFD/pkgs/container/nfd>`__
+ - `named-data/nfd-autoreg <https://github.com/named-data/NFD/pkgs/container/nfd-autoreg>`__
+ - `named-data/nfd-status-http-server <https://github.com/named-data/NFD/pkgs/container/nfd-status-http-server>`__
+
+ All images are available for *linux/amd64* and *linux/arm64* platforms.
+
+- The default Unix socket path changed to ``/run/nfd/nfd.sock`` on Linux and to
+ ``/var/run/nfd/nfd.sock`` on all other platforms (:issue:`5304`)
+
+- Introduced a new strategy trigger :nfd:`onInterestLoop <Strategy::onInterestLoop>` that is
+ invoked when a duplicate Interest is received. The default behavior (sending a Nack packet)
+ remains unchanged except for the Multicast strategy, which will now suppress the Nack
+ transmission in this case (:issue:`5278`)
+
+- Multiple updates to the ASF forwarding strategy to more closely adhere to the behavior
+ described in the published technical report (:issue:`5310`)
+
+- The ASF strategy gained support for Nack propagation (:issue:`5311`)
+
+- The default port number of ``nfd-status-http-server`` changed to 6380
+
+Improvements and bug fixes
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+- Several stability improvements in the face system, especially around error handling in
+ multicast faces and :nfd:`UnixStreamChannel` (:issue:`5030`, :issue:`5297`)
+
+- Refactor and improve logging in forwarding core and strategies (:issue:`5262`, :issue:`5267`)
+
+- Fix missing increment of ``nOutNacks`` counter when sending a Nack from ``onInterestLoop``
+
+- Optimize the removal of PIT in-records
+
+- Move RIB unit tests into ``unit-tests-daemon`` and eliminate the ``unit-tests-rib`` binary
+
+- Fix building the documentation with Python 3.12 (:issue:`5298`)
+
+- Reduce amount of debugging information produced in compiled binaries by default (:issue:`5279`)
+
+- Update waf build system to version 2.0.27
+
+- Various code cleanups, modernizations, and documentation improvements