Add release date to the release notes

Add backticks to notice file to better identify function names

Author: tennlee

NOTICE.md

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 This file contains a listing of all code which is included within the repository which is adapted from, extends, or includes code from another open source project. The filenames, sources, copyright and licenses are recorded here.
 
-Code in the file src/scores/probability/crps_numba.py is adapted from two sources. 
-The xarray wrapper function crps_cdf_exact_fast is based on the code for crps_ensemble from xskillscore
+Code in the file src/scores/probability/crps_numba.py is adapted from two sources. The xarray wrapper function `scores.probability.crps_numba.crps_cdf_exact_fast` is based on the code for crps_ensemble from xskillscore
 https://github.com/xarray-contrib/xskillscore/blob/main/xskillscore/core/probabilistic.py, released under the  Apache-2.0 License with 
-copyright attributed to xskillscore developers (as at 11 Dec 2025). The vectorisation of crps_at_point follows the example of _crps_ensemble_gufunc from properscoring
-https://github.com/properscoring/properscoring/blob/master/properscoring/_gufuncs.py, released under the Apache-2.0 License with copyright attributed to The Climate Corporation (2015).
+copyright attributed to xskillscore developers (as at 11 Dec 2025). The vectorisation of `crps_at_point` follows the example of `_crps_ensemble_gufunc` from properscoring https://github.com/properscoring/properscoring/blob/master/properscoring/_gufuncs.py, released under the Apache-2.0 License with copyright attributed to The Climate Corporation (2015).

docs/release_notes.md

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 # Release Notes (What's New)
 
-## Version 2.4.0 (Upcoming Release)
+## Version 2.4.0 (January 14, 2026)
 
-For a list of all changes in this release, see the [full changelog](https://github.com/nci/scores/compare/2.3.0...develop). Below are the changes we think users may wish to be aware of.
+For a list of all changes in this release, see the [full changelog](https://github.com/nci/scores/compare/2.3.0...2.4.0). Below are the changes we think users may wish to be aware of.
 
 ### Features