redpanda-data/redpanda v25.3.6

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Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Kafka fetch session responses could omit partitions with changed metadata (high watermark, log start offset, last stable offset) when the fetch retried internally due to min_bytes not being satisfied. by @pgellert in #29349
• Fixed cluster link replication attempting prefix truncation on partitions that do not support it (e.g., cloud topics) by @michael-redpanda in #29296
• Fixed file cleanup issue in datalake::record_multiplexer. by @ballard26 in #29277
• #29299 Fix the partition_response for a produce request to a LogAppendTime topic to accurately reflect the timestamp_type. by @WillemKauf in #29301
• guarantee invalid lso gets converted to a retryable error when relevant by @joe-redpanda in #29307

Improvements

• Improve cluster linking shadow topic prefix truncation error message. by @pgellert in #29303
• Schema Registry: Optimise compatibility checking for json to allow more nested schemas. by @BenPope in #29317
• PR #28757 [CORE-14007] Fix timeout handling in TS by @Lazin
• PR #29294 c/topic_table: use chunked_hash_map for lifecycle markers by @bashtanov
• PR #29330 bazel: Update seastar to latest by @StephanDollberg

Full Changelog: v25.3.5...v25.3.6