Release 3.0 (Fall 2024) -- compared to 2.5
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### New minimum dependencies and compatibility changes:
* *Blah*: Raise minimum to 1.2...

### ⛰️  Major new features and public API changes:
* *New feature*: item
* *New image file format support:*
    - Format1 explanation
    - Format2 explanation
* *oiiotool*:
    - item
* *ImageBuf/ImageBufAlgo*:
    - item
* *Other categories or subsystems as needed*:

### 🚀  Performance improvements:
  - *subsystem*: item

### 🐛  Fixes and feature enhancements:
* *subsystem*: item
* *oiiotool*: item
* *ImageBuf/ImageBufAlgo*:
    - item
* *ImageCache/TextureSystem*:
    - item
* *format*:
    - item

### 🔧  Internals and developer goodies
  - *int*: item
  - *header.h*: developer item

### 🏗  Build/test/CI and platform ports:
* CMake build system and scripts:
  - item
* Testing and Continuous integration (CI) systems:
  - *test*: item
  - *ci*: item
* Platform support:
  - *win*: item

### 📚  Notable documentation changes:
  - *docs*: item

### 🏢  Project Administration
  - *admin*: item
