Release 24.5.0

[siladu]

• Confirm anything outstanding for release with other maintainers on #besu-release
• Update changelog if necessary
• Notify maintainers about updating changelog for in-flight PRs
• Optional: for hotfixes, create a release branch and cherry-pick, e.g. release-24.5.0-rc1
• Optional: create a PR against the hotfix branch to see the CI checks pass
• On the appropriate branch/commit, create a calver tag for the release candidate, format 24.5.0-RC1
• Create a DRAFT release using the new tag (careful not to publish!)
• Draft documentation release
• Sign-off with team
• Start burn-in using the new 24.5.0-RC1 tag
• Sign off burn-in
• Convert the DRAFT into a PRE-RELEASE
  • this is now public and notifies subscribed users
  • publishes artefacts and version-specific docker tags
• Using the same git sha, create a new tag for the FULL RELEASE, format 24.5.0
• Draft homebrew PR
• Using the FULL RELEASE tag, create a PRE-RELEASE in github to trigger the workflows
  • this is now public and notifies subscribed users
  • publishes artefacts and version-specific docker tags
• Convert this to a FULL RELEASE
  • makes the release LATEST in github
  • publishes the docker latest tag variants
• Ensure binary SHAs are correct on the release page
• Docker release startup test:
  • docker run hyperledger/besu:24.5.0
  • docker run hyperledger/besu:24.5.0-arm64
  • docker run --platform linux/amd64 hyperledger/besu:23.4.0-amd64
  • docker run --pull=always hyperledger/besu:latest (check version is 24.4.0)
• Merge homebrew PR
• Publish Docs Release
• Social announcements

[macfarla]

docs release drafted hyperledger/besu-docs#1590