blog: add v24.01 release announcement

Signed-off-by: Tomasz Zawadzki <tomasz.zawadzki@intel.com>
Change-Id: Ic4f4a53f59da0f96763b90f482e0019986d94c11
Reviewed-on: https://review.spdk.io/gerrit/c/spdk/spdk.github.io/+/21581
Reviewed-by: Konrad Sztyber <konrad.sztyber@intel.com>
Tested-by: SPDK CI Jenkins <sys_sgci@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Harris <jim.harris@samsung.com>

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+title:  "SPDK v24.01: DIF in accel, RAID rebuild, Blobstore grow"
+author: Tomasz Zawadzki
+categories: release
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+On behalf of the SPDK community I'm pleased to announce the release of [SPDK 24.01 LTS](https://github.com/spdk/spdk/releases/tag/v24.01)!!
+The SPDK 24.01 release is a long term support release that will be supported for 1 year.
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+This release contains the following new features:
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+ - **DIF operations in accel**: Accel now supports verify, generate and generate copy operations for computing Data Integrity Field (DIF). Currently supported by software and DSA accel modules.
+ - **RAID rebuild**: RAID bdev module supports rebuild for RAID1 and RAID5F levels.
+ - **Blobstore grow in runtime**: Blobstore now supports increasing it's size to fill the underlying device without the need to close all blobs. This functionality extends to logical volumes.
+ - **NVMe CUSE enabled by default**: NVMe CUSE is no longer considered experimental and enabled by default. It allows creation of NVMe device nodes in Linux kernel for the controller and namespaces (i.e. at /dev/nvmeXnY). These character devices can be used by tools such as nvme-cli.
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+The full changelog for this release is available [here](https://github.com/spdk/spdk/releases/tag/v24.01).
+Deprecation notices for users updating from previous releases can be found [here](https://github.com/spdk/spdk/blob/v24.01/deprecation.md).
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+# New Contributors
+
+This release contains 568 commits from 53 authors with over 34k lines of code changed.
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+We'd especially like to recognize all of our first time contributors:
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+ - Abhineet Pandey
+ - Anton Nayshtut
+ - Changqi Lu
+ - Deepak Abraham Tom
+ - Haoqian He
+ - Hollin
+ - Igor Vechirko
+ - Kanika Nema
+ - Karl Bonde Torp
+ - Lukasz Lasek
+ - Marcin Suski
+ - Philipp Riederer
+ - Sarvesh Lanke
+ - Vasilii Ivanov
+ - Xiaoguang Wang
+ - Yoav Cohen
+
+Many thanks to everyone for your contributions, participation, and effort!