What's Changed
- [v25.3.x] rptest/datalake/verifier: fix consumer close race with poll thread by @vbotbuildovich in #30034
- [v25.3.x] [CORE-15990] Audit/Kafka RPC: Add exponential backoff to audit client and memory pressure guard to k/d/rpc service by @oleiman in #30053
- [v25.3.x] [CORE-14905]
cluster: preventstd::rethrow_exceptionof a nullexception_ptrby @vbotbuildovich in #30056
Full Changelog: v25.3.12...v25.3.13