[VOTE] Release Lucene 10.4.0 RC1

Please vote for release candidate 1 for Lucene 10.4.0

The artifacts can be downloaded from:
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/lucene/lucene-10.4.0-RC1-rev-2fcb6e534396bb308c9c9a91738e310d273a4352

You can run the smoke tester directly with this command:

python3 -u dev-tools/scripts/smokeTestRelease.py \
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/lucene/lucene-10.4.0-RC1-rev-2fcb6e534396bb308c9c9a91738e310d273a4352

The vote will be open for at least 72 hours i.e. until 2026-02-12 20:00 UTC.

[ ] +1  approve
[ ] +0  no opinion
[ ] -1  disapprove (and reason why)

Here is my +1


Thanks!

Ben Trent