chore(main): release google-cloud-firestore-v1 2.4.0 (#33112)

* chore(main): release google-cloud-firestore-v1 2.4.0

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.release-please-manifest.json

@@ -431,7 +431,7 @@
   "google-cloud-firestore-admin+FILLER": "0.0.0",
   "google-cloud-firestore-admin-v1": "1.14.0",
   "google-cloud-firestore-admin-v1+FILLER": "0.0.0",
-  "google-cloud-firestore-v1": "2.3.0",
+  "google-cloud-firestore-v1": "2.4.0",
   "google-cloud-firestore-v1+FILLER": "0.0.0",
   "google-cloud-functions": "2.2.0",
   "google-cloud-functions+FILLER": "0.0.0",

google-cloud-firestore-v1/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,23 @@
 # Release History
 
+### 2.4.0 (2026-06-11)
+
+#### Features
+
+* Add irb as explicit dependency for Ruby 4.0 compatibility 
+* expose the variable definition in the Cloud Firestore API 
+* publish client batch config schema 
+* publish new error reasons 
+* update gapic-common dependency to 1.3 and document retry jitter ([#32783](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-ruby/issues/32783)) 
+* Update minimum Ruby to v3.2 and required dependencies for Ruby v4.0 
+* upgrade protobuf from v25.7 to v31.0 
+#### Documentation
+
+* fix documentation formatting 
+* update API common type documentation 
+* update license year 
+* update various comments 
+
 ### 2.3.0 (2025-12-11)
 
 #### Features

google-cloud-firestore-v1/lib/google/cloud/firestore/v1/version.rb

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ module Google
   module Cloud
     module Firestore
       module V1
-        VERSION = "2.3.0"
+        VERSION = "2.4.0"
       end
     end
   end

google-cloud-firestore-v1/snippets/snippet_metadata_google.firestore.v1.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "client_library": {
     "name": "google-cloud-firestore-v1",
-    "version": "2.3.0",
+    "version": "2.4.0",
     "language": "RUBY",
     "apis": [
       {