docs: announce 1.24.0 (#227)

Closes #226

Signed-off-by: Gabriele Bartolini <[email protected]>

content/docs/1.24.md

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 release:  1.24.0
 location: /documentation/1.24
-release_date: 2024-08-22
+release_date: 22 Aug 2024
 release_notes: https://github.com/cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg/releases/tag/v1.24.0
 ---

content/releases/cloudnative-pg-1-24.0-released/index.md

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+---
+title: "CloudNativePG 1.24.0 and 1.23.4 Released!"
+date: 2024-08-22
+draft: false
+author: gbartolini
+image:
+    url: 58364dde1adc4a0a8.37186404-2048x1445.jpg
+    attribution: from <a href="https://wordpress.org/photos/photo/58364dde1a/">Saurabh</a>
+tags:
+ - release
+ - postgresql
+ - postgres
+ - kubernetes
+ - k8s
+ - cloudnativepg
+summary: The CloudNativePG community has released the new 1.24 minor version and a new update for the supported 1.23 version of the CloudNativePG operator.
+---
+
+
+The **CloudNativePG Community** is excited to announce the release of
+**CloudNativePG Operator** versions 1.24.0 and 1.23.4!
+
+## CloudNativePG 1.24.0: What’s New?
+
+This major update introduces powerful new features and enhancements, including:
+
+- **Distributed PostgreSQL Topologies**: Create distributed database topologies
+  across multiple Kubernetes clusters, enabling hybrid and multi-cloud
+  deployments. Enjoy declarative primary control and seamless switchover between
+  clusters, ensuring high availability and resilience.
+- **Managed Services**: The new `managed.services` stanza allows for advanced
+  service management, including the ability to disable read-only and read
+  services via configuration, and the use of service templates to create custom
+  service resources, such as load balancers, for accessing PostgreSQL outside
+  Kubernetes—ideal for DBaaS scenarios.
+- **Enhanced Synchronous Replication API**: Gain full control over PostgreSQL’s
+  synchronous replication configuration with a more flexible API, supporting
+  both quorum-based and priority list strategies. Customize the
+  `synchronous_standby_names` option to suit your needs.
+- **WAL Disk Space Exhaustion Safeguard**: A critical safety measure ensures
+  that if disk space for WAL files is exhausted, the cluster will safely stop
+  rather than triggering a chain of failovers. This prevents the cluster from
+  entering an unrecoverable state and simplifies recovery by allowing for manual
+  volume expansion.
+
+For a detailed overview of these features and other changes, check out the
+[release notes](https://cloudnative-pg.io/documentation/1.24/release_notes/v1.24/).
+
+---
+
+### Additional Enhancements in 1.24.0
+
+Explore more improvements in CloudNativePG 1.24, including:
+
+- Declarative delayed replicas
+- Transparent support for PostgreSQL 17’s `allow_alter_system`
+- `postInitSQLRefs` and `postInitTemplateSQLRefs`
+- Observability enhancements
+
+Check the full list of changes in the
+[release notes](https://cloudnative-pg.io/documentation/1.24/release_notes/v1.24/).
+
+---
+
+## Upgrade and Maintenance
+
+Before upgrading, please carefully review the
+[detailed upgrade instructions](https://cloudnative-pg.io/documentation/1.24/installation_upgrade/#upgrading-to-1240-or-1234).
+
+We strongly recommend upgrading to CloudNativePG 1.24.0 at your earliest
+convenience. If you prefer to stay on version 1.23, be sure to update to 1.23.4
+for continued stability and support. Note that version 1.23 will be supported
+until November 22nd, 2024.
+
+---
+
+## Join the Community
+
+Become an active member of our growing open-source, vendor-neutral, and openly
+governed community! Engage with fellow users, share insights, and receive
+support. Join our [Slack channel](https://join.slack.com/t/cloudnativepg/shared_invite/zt-2ij5hagfo-B04EQ9DUlGFzD6GEHDqE0g)
+and follow us on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/CloudNativePg) to stay
+up-to-date with the latest news and announcements.
+
+Thank you for your continued support and engagement with CloudNativePG. Upgrade
+today and unlock the full potential of your PostgreSQL deployments!
+
+<!--
+## About CloudNativePG
+
+[CloudNativePG](https://cloudnative-pg.io) stands as a groundbreaking
+open-source Kubernetes Operator designed explicitly for PostgreSQL workloads.
+Seamlessly orchestrating the entire life cycle of a PostgreSQL cluster,
+CloudNativePG takes charge from bootstrapping and configuration to ensuring
+high availability, connection routing, and comprehensive backup and disaster
+recovery mechanisms.
+Leveraging PostgreSQL's native streaming replication, CloudNativePG efficiently
+distributes data across pods, nodes, and zones, utilizing standard Kubernetes
+patterns. This enables seamless scaling of replicas in a Kubernetes-native
+manner, with the operator autonomously and safely reconfiguring replication as
+needed.
+Originally conceived and supported by [EDB](https://www.enterprisedb.com/),
+CloudNativePG represents a paradigm shift in managing PostgreSQL workloads
+within Kubernetes environments.
+
+-->
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+The CloudNativePG Community is thrilled to announce the release of CloudNativePG 1.24.0! This release introduces powerful new features, including:
+
+🔹 **Distributed PostgreSQL Topologies** for hybrid and multi-cloud deployments
+🔹 **Managed Services** for custom service resources and DBaaS
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