Squashed commit of the following:
Squashed commit of the following:

commit 319a85006b1e12507d96d14e846a394f80ca5cc2
Author: Thib Guicherd-Callin <thib@cs.stanford.edu>
Date:   Sun Dec 12 23:29:27 2021 -0800

    Begin 2.4.0 release

commit caaf14d5a82635812d5f7e9386658a98f009b735
Author: Thib Guicherd-Callin <thib@cs.stanford.edu>
Date:   Wed Jun 23 21:58:08 2021 -0700

    Begin 2.4.0-SNAPSHOT cycle

lockss/laaws-metadataservice,lockss/laaws-metadataservice