Added release notes and version entries for 2024.34.0

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+author: meshcloud
+title: Release 2024.34.0
+---
+
+Release period: 2024-08-01 to 2024-08-07
+
+This release includes the following issues:
+* Fix upgrade option for draft Building Blocks
+* Improve performance when loading Building Block Definitions
+* Enable/Disable manual user invites via self-service
+* Performance optimization for project deletion
+* Enforce versioned Accept Header for API in QA Environments
+* Workspace Name Instead of IDs in Notifications
+* No longer show variable name in Building Block Configuration
+* Markdown Support for Building Block Input Descriptions
+* Fix Converted Amounts for Projects with CO2 values
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+
+## Ticket Details
+### Fix upgrade option for draft Building Blocks
+**Audience:** Customer, Partner<br>
+
+#### Description
+When you created a Building Block based on a draft version of a Building Block Definition
+and the Definition also had already released versions, the "Upgrade" button was available for
+the Building Block, even though it was already on the latest draft version. This is fixed now
+and there is no option anymore to upgrade a Building Block that is based on a draft Definition
+version.
+
+### Improve performance when loading Building Block Definitions
+**Audience:** Customer, User, Partner<br>
+
+#### Description
+When you created many versions for a Building Block Definition or even for multiple Building
+Block Definitions it took a long time to load the Building Block Definitions, e.g. for the
+overview in the Admin Area. Also other Building Block related screens were affected. Performance
+of this is improved now. We will continue improving it further, but with this first step, especially
+environments with many Definitions that have a lot of versions should notice a clear performance boost.
+
+### Enable/Disable manual user invites via self-service
+**Audience:** Operator<br>
+
+#### Description
+This feature adds the option to disable manual user invitations in the admin area
+management settings menu. Previously you had to enable SCIM to disable manual user invitations.
+But if you managed users via the meshObject API and also wanted to disable manual user invitations
+this was not easily possible. Now you can use this setting to prevent manual user invites.
+
+### Performance optimization for project deletion
+**Audience:** Customer<br>
+
+#### Description
+When deleting a project with all its tenants either via meshObject API
+or directly via the panel, the deletion process should now be much faster.
+
+### Enforce versioned Accept Header for API in QA Environments
+**Audience:** Partner, Customer<br>
+
+#### Description
+As announced, we will deprecate calling the meshStack API without a versioned Accept
+header from Sep 1st, 2024 on. We are now enforcing this in your QA environments to prevent
+new integrations with the API without providing the version in the Accept header.
+
+#### How to use
+Please be aware, that the Accept header is also required when you call a POST or PUT endpoint. 
+This information is now included in the API documentation. Following the updated API docs will 
+ensure your requests work correctly.
+
+### Workspace Name Instead of IDs in Notifications
+**Audience:** User<br>
+
+#### Description
+Previously, notification emails displayed the Workspace 
+identifier. Based on your feedback, we have replaced the
+Workspace identifier with the Workspace name, making it 
+easier to identify the Workspace where an action occurred.
+
+### No longer show variable name in Building Block Configuration
+**Audience:** Operator<br>
+
+#### Description
+A few releases ago we introduced display names for Building Block Definitions so users have more easy-to-read
+names when configuring their Building Block Definitions. Besides that we also showed the underlying variable name
+next to it. To reduce the information shown to the user, we now removed the variable name that was shown.
+If you do still desire to show the variable name to your users for whatever reason, we recommend adding the 
+variable name as brackets in the display name, e.g. "AWS Region (aws_region)".
+
+### Markdown Support for Building Block Input Descriptions
+**Audience:** User<br>
+
+#### Description
+As an owner of a Building Block Definition, you can now use Markdown in Building Block Input Descriptions. This allows you to e.g. add links
+or other rich text formatting like bold or italic text in the description.
+
+#### How to use
+Simply enter text that is supported by the Markdown standard and it will be rendered to the user upon creating a new 
+building block. For example: Built with **love** by [meshcloud](meshcloud.io).
+
+### Fix Converted Amounts for Projects with CO2 values
+**Audience:** Partner, Customer<br>
+
+#### Description
+Previously, currency conversion was not working in chargebacks that included
+both monetary values and CO2 values. This has now been fixed, and monetary
+amounts are correctly converted to EUR in chargebacks that also include CO2
+values.
+