Bug Fixes
- Fixed buggy race detection logic in archival segment collection that could miss races between collection and compaction. by @oleiman in #29729
- Schema Registry: Fixes a bug in Avro schema compilation where external references were not properly resolved from the schema store, causing compilation failures, compatibility check failures or server-side schema id validation failures for schemas with reference dependencies. For v25.3.x patch versions, the bug fix is only enabled if the new cluster config
schema_registry_avro_use_named_referencesis enabled, while starting v26.1.1 it the new behaviour is always enabled. by @pgellert in #29627
Improvements
- Shadow Linking: allow creating shadow links with TLS settings where the CA/key/cert strings exceed 128KiB. by @pgellert in #29746
Full Changelog: v25.3.9...v25.3.10