Forwarded request #1156422 from bnavigator

- Update to 2024.2.0
## Enhancements
* add 9P known implementation (#1513)
* allow TqdmCallback subclassing (#1497, 1480)
* callbacks/branching kwargs handling and scopes (#1496, 1495,
1460)
* add aluuxioFS to known implementations (#1469)
* implement pipe_file for dirFS (#1465)
## Fixes
* infer compression for .lzma files (#1514)
* fix append to categorical/parquet references (#1510)
* allow for FTP servers that list with leading "total" line
(#1503)
* convert FTP failure to FileNotFound (#1494)
* out of order reference fix (#1492)
* retry "backoff" response for DBFS (#1491)
* referenceFS case for scalar arrays (#1487)
* fix create_parents for SFTP (#1484)
* fix local .ls() on files (#1479)
* allow Path and similar in _expand_path (#1475)
* make lazy references editable (#1468)
* fix eq for abstract buffered files (#1466)
* fit tqdm cleanup (#1463)
* fix passing kwargs from cached file to underlying FS (#1462)
## Other
* fix tests for supports_empty_directories=False (#1512)
* don't read references in init for referenceFS (#1521)
* code cleaning (#1518, 1502, 1499, 1493, 1481)
* pass through "replication" for HDFS (#1486)
* record more info for HTTP info() (#1483)