v24.2.5

[piyushredpanda]

Features

• Adds admin API endpoint for enterprise feature info GET /v1/features/enterprise by @oleiman in #23368
• New REST API for mounting/unmounting topics by @bashtanov in #23209
• Schema Registry: verbose compatibility error reporting is now supported for JSON as well by @pgellert in #23299

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a segfault that will occur if mTLS is in use and the auditing client is not configured correctly by @michael-redpanda in #23288
• Fixed possible oversized alloc in the DescribeLogsDir API handler by @michael-redpanda in #23291
• Fixes a bug that resulted in persisting an invalid topic_properties configuration in the topic_table. by @WillemKauf in #23223
• Fixes a bug that would cause retention to be applied to compact-only tiered storage topics. by @andrwng in #23359
• Return NOT_COORDINATOR immediately in group transactional operations if the broker is aware that it is not the group coordinator. by @ztlpn in #23189
• #23316 Fixes crash when consuming from topic partitions with negative indexes by @bharathv in #23317

Improvements

• rpk connect now will be downloaded on the first run. by @r-vasquez in #23351
• rpk: introduce rpk connect install, rpk connect upgrade, and rpk connect uninstall, manual ways to manage rpk connect versioning. by @r-vasquez in #23351
• PR #23127 [v24.2.x] c/members_table: include members table version in the snapshot by @mmaslankaprv
• PR #23155 [v24.2.x] c/topic_config: Explicitly initialize non-class fields by @oleiman
• PR #23175 [v24.2.x] c/tm_stm: fix log format strings by @ztlpn
• PR #23236 [v24.2.x] config: mark cloud_storage_enabled() as needs_restart::yes by @WillemKauf
• PR #23241 [v24.2.x] Migrations storage improvements by @bashtanov
• PR #23242 [v24.2.x] cst/inv: Minor fixes for issues found during scrubber integration by @abhijat
• PR #23325 [v24.2.x] CORE-7268 fix migrated resources raft snapshot application by @bashtanov
• PR #23357 [v24.2.x] admin: add cloud_storage_cache_size check to config_multi_property_validation() by @WillemKauf

Full Changelog: v24.2.4...v24.2.5

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This discussion was created from the release v24.2.5.