Release 24.04

Description

The 24.04 release of RAL.

Checklist

• Contribution meets RAL's licence terms
• New functions adhere to RAL's naming scheme
• Contribution conforms to RAL's directory structure
• Documentation updated
• "Unreleased" section of the Changelog updated
• clang-format and clang-tidy run and changes included (C/C++ code)
• flake8 run and changes included (Python code)
• Tests added or updated
• Tests pass when run with AddressSanitizer
• Benchmarks added or updated