From 290e873ca9772a9da932b8200fd5b5f82bbd8a85 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ardavan Oskooi <ardavano@google.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 11:02:43 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] prepare for 1.24 release (#2143)

---
 NEWS.md      | 10 ++++++++++
 configure.ac |  4 ++--
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 3ee3d0c63..e3023cdec 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/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
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index e5971eab0..7a206f0e0 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/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)