Added release notes for v2.19 (#1261) (#1262)

* Added release notes for v2.19

* Added release notes for v2.19.0

* Added Release Notes for v2.19.0

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release-notes/opensearch-index-management-dashboards-plugin.release-notes-2.19.0.0.md

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+## Version 2.19.0.0 2025-02-05
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+Compatible with OpenSearch 2.19.0
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+### Enhancements
+* Use cat snapshot to get the number of snapshot for a repo ([#1242](https://github.com/opensearch-project/index-management-dashboards-plugin/pull/1242))
+
+### Bug Fixes
+* bug-fix: Restore snapshot shouldn't restore index alias always ([#1206](https://github.com/opensearch-project/index-management-dashboards-plugin/pull/1206))
+* Bug fixes in Snapshot Policy: Schedule Editing and Index Expression Display ([#1208](https://github.com/opensearch-project/index-management-dashboards-plugin/pull/1208))
+* bug fix: Snapshot restore always restores index alias ([#1214](https://github.com/opensearch-project/index-management-dashboards-plugin/pull/1214))
+* Fixing bug in transform API validation to support index patterns ([#1241](https://github.com/opensearch-project/index-management-dashboards-plugin/pull/1241))
+* Updating cypress version and fixing CVE-2024-21538 ([#1252](https://github.com/opensearch-project/index-management-dashboards-plugin/pull/1252))
+
+### Maintenance
+
+* Increment version to 2.19.0.0 ([#1218](https://github.com/opensearch-project/index-management-dashboards-plugin/pull/1218))
+* Updating the maintainers and codeowners list ([#1223](https://github.com/opensearch-project/index-management-dashboards-plugin/pull/1223)) 
+* Reverting the maintainers and codeowners list([#1234](https://github.com/opensearch-project/index-management-dashboards-plugin/pull/1234))
+* Sync Maintainers to 2.x from main branch ([#1238](https://github.com/opensearch-project/index-management-dashboards-plugin/pull/1238))
+* Backport 1258 to 2.19 ([#1260](https://github.com/opensearch-project/index-management-dashboards-plugin/pull/1260))
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