We are pleased to announce the release of Poplar SDK 2.4 which is now available to download from our support portal and Docker Hub. This is the culmination of a very successful year of software releases, optimisations and new ecosystem partnerships demonstrating continued progress, software maturity, ease-of-use, scale-out capabilities and high-performing benchmarks as demonstrated by our reference applications and MLPerf submissions. The new release provides a host of improvements to further enhance ease-of-use, performance and help developers run their machine learning models even faster, as well as code for new applications added to our public examples on GitHub. To learn more about these new features, see our SDK 2.4.0 Release Notes. Poplar SDK 2.4 provides numerous improvements to help you accelerate your AI applications with ease on IPU systems.