Added release notes and version entries for 2024.32.0

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+author: meshcloud
+title: Release 2024.32.0
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+
+Release period: 2024-07-17 to 2024-07-24
+
+This release includes the following issues:
+* Performance Improvement when Loading Workspaces
+* Adds missing tags for cloud platform replication
+* Improves mandatory building block checks at tenant creation
+* Role Expiration Date Handling
+* Projects Default Quota Issue Resolved
+* Prevent duplicate localIds of Service Instances
+* Improve messaging around required workspace role expirations
+* Improve performance of project overview in admin area
+* Fixed Expiration Date Issue in Workspace Access
+* Streamlined Tenant Control Plane Navigation
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+
+## Ticket Details
+### Performance Improvement when Loading Workspaces
+**Audience:** Partner<br>
+
+#### Description
+Previously, we observed long loading times when loading a list of workspaces,
+for example, when you have selected a platform in the Admin Area, then went
+to Settings and then to Restrictions, loading the workspace dropdown could
+take a while. This has been fixed.
+
+### Adds missing tags for cloud platform replication
+**Audience:** Partner<br>
+
+#### Description
+This fix adds the tags related to the owner, additional owner and payment method amount
+to the list of usable tags (it was already available in a drop-down when setting up the 
+tags mapping in the admin area but they were non-functional).
+This also includes updates to the documentation for those tags.
+If you used the landing zone name or identifier as tags before (which also did not work 
+and is fixed now) please correct the key in your platform configuration from 
+tenantLandingZone (or tenantLandingZoneIdentifier) to the now correct ones: landingZoneName 
+and landingZoneIdentifier.
+
+### Improves mandatory building block checks at tenant creation
+**Audience:** Customer<br>
+
+#### Description
+A bug allowed the creation of tenants without the mandatory landing zone building block
+when a slow network connection was present.
+The validation logic was fixed to prevent such incomplete creation requests from getting
+accepted.
+
+### Role Expiration Date Handling
+**Audience:** User<br>
+
+#### Description
+Previously, it was possible to enter past dates to the workspace or project role expiration dates and only after adding the role, an 
+error was shown. We now already show a validation error when a date from the past is chosen in the first place.
+
+### Projects Default Quota Issue Resolved
+**Audience:** User<br>
+
+#### Description
+We have identified and fixed an issue affecting meshStacks setup or project default quota modified since February 2024. This issue caused the 
+defined projects default quota to not be applied correctly, defaulting Project quotas to 1 instead. With this release, the default 
+quota will now be applied as intended.
+
+### Prevent duplicate localIds of Service Instances
+**Audience:** Partner<br>
+
+#### Description
+It was possible to create Service Instances with the same localId, if they belonged to different
+Service Plans. As the OSB specification defines the localId as a globally unique ID, we now changed
+this to make sure that the localIds are unique within a meshStack. This prevents potential issues
+with Service Brokers that rely on localIds not only being unique within one service, but really 
+globally.
+
+### Improve messaging around required workspace role expirations
+**Audience:** User<br>
+
+#### Description
+Creating a new workspace requires at least one user with the workspace owner role.
+If this role requires an expiration date to be set it will now be validated during workspace access assignment instead of leading to a technical error message during the actual workspace creation.
+
+### Improve performance of project overview in admin area
+**Audience:** Partner<br>
+
+#### Description
+In some environments the project overview in the admin area did load very slowly. This has been fixed
+now and the page will load quickly.
+
+### Fixed Expiration Date Issue in Workspace Access
+**Audience:** User<br>
+
+#### Description
+Previously, while assigning a new user or group role in Workspace Access that required an expiration date, multiple incorrect 
+requests are opened. In this release, this issue has been resolved. Also a tooltip has been added to remind users not to input 
+dates in the past when assigning new user or group roles in workspace access.
+
+### Streamlined Tenant Control Plane Navigation
+**Audience:** User<br>
+
+#### Description
+We have integrated items previously located in the sidebar of the "Overview" on the tenant control plane into a single, streamlined view. You will now immediately see the Console and the Building Blocks upon accessing the control plane, simplifying the workflow by making essential functionalities readily accessible. Additionally, in an upcoming release, we plan to remove the Console/CLI access buttons from the tenant overview on the project control plane, as they will now be instantly accessible.
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