This release enhances support for large-scale IAM policies and incorporates the latest security patches from core dependencies. Critical bug fixes improve server startup in distributed environments, restore functionality for object copying with customer-provided keys (SSE-C), and ensure data format consistency for streamed audit logs.

### Improvements
- Increased capacity for defining and managing large-scale IAM policies, removing previous size limitations. (#1023)

### Security Updates
- Updated core dependencies to incorporate the latest security patches and vulnerability fixes from upstream libraries. (#1023)

### Bug Fixes
- Resolved a race condition during initialization that could cause server startup failures in large-scale distributed deployments. (#1032)
- Corrected a decryption error that prevented `CopyObject` operations on objects encrypted with customer-provided keys (SSE-C). (#1018)
- Restored the correct data format for streamed audit logs to prevent decoding errors in custom parsing clients. (#1024)
- Ensured Admin API operations correctly process case-insensitive usernames for LDAP users, preventing permission errors. (#1021)
- Addressed intermittent failures in Kafka event notification delivery through core component updates. (#1023)
- Prevented batch catalog jobs from failing when no records are processed, ensuring successful completion for empty result sets. (#1027)