This release significantly enhances system performance by optimizing object writes, IAM policy evaluation, and self-healing operations. A new drive monitoring feature has been introduced to track extended drive downtime, laying the groundwork for future automated data recovery.

### New Features
- Introduces drive downtime monitoring to log events when a drive is offline for an extended period, providing crucial data for future automated healing capabilities. (#809)

### Improvements
- Increased object write throughput by eliminating unnecessary cleanup operations for successful uploads, reducing server load and internal network traffic. (#1028)
- Reduced system overhead by preventing repeated self-healing attempts on drives that are already known to be offline for an extended period. (#1040)
- Accelerated IAM policy evaluation for authenticated requests by processing policies sequentially, lowering API latency in environments with multiple policies. (#1038)
- Reduced API latency by including object tags in `HEAD Object` responses, allowing applications to retrieve metadata and tags in a single call when S3 compatibility is disabled. (#1036)

### Bug Fixes
- Corrected the `x-amz-object-size` header in S3 Express One Zone to report the true object size instead of the encrypted size, ensuring accurate metadata for client-side validation. (#1034)