Draft release notes for 2024.5.0

[barbeque-squared]

I intend to release this on May 4.

Context for the mentioned upcoming breaking change: #634 (comment) it has never worked anyway

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⭐ Features

• Allow rap notes to be interpreted as freestyle with T Add toggle to interpret rap notes as freestyle #828

📈 Enhancements

• Improve song scanning performance Avoid duplicate work during song scanning #819
• Add more levels for microphone threshold and preview volume More uini settings #823
• Use the cover of the first song of the artist as cover for the "Artist2" tab Use the cover of first song of the artist as cover for the "Artist2" Tab. #829

🚨 Breaking changes

• Support for P3=P1+P2 has been removed remove P3=P1+P2 duet hack. fixes #746 #824

Other Changes

• Improve human readability of git diff hunks add .gitattributes to have more descriptive git diff hunk headers #822
• Support FFmpeg 7.0 Support FFmpeg 7,0 #827
• Text fixes Fix wording of some help texts from 'actual' to 'current' #830

🕐 Upcoming breaking change

Support for 8 or 12 players in regular mode is slated to be removed in a future release.

[barbeque-squared]

I don't have time right now but I'll add #833 to these as well before it gets released. I'll probably list it as a bugfix judging by the code

[barbeque-squared]

Version number has been pushed but apparently the CI is completely broken (I only noticed this now but have also not heard anyone else about it, and it's apparently been broken for ~3 weeks). See #834 for details.

I'm not going to force-push to the master branch of a public repo, nor delete tags, so I immediately made another commit to change it to dev version again, but effectively 2024.5.0 is a non-release. All releases are blocked until this issue is solved.

EDIT: also noticed I used the wrong year in this ticket's title so I fixed that, and checked that I actually did use 2024 in all the actually important places

[barbeque-squared]

This has (finally) been released. Now only to make a PR in the other repo, which I'll link back here and close once that's also been merged

[DeinAlptraum]

Shouldn't this be closed since UltraStar-Deluxe/ultrastar-deluxe.github.io#21 was merged?