This release enhances enterprise authentication and data management workflows. Key improvements include full Azure AD group support for accurate policy enforcement, reduced upload latency for replication, and optimized disk I/O on Linux. These changes ensure correct security application, improve performance, and prevent data access issues in specific upgrade scenarios.

### New Features

*   **Ensures accurate policy enforcement for Azure AD users by fetching all group memberships**, overcoming the 200-group limit in authentication tokens. This allows policies to be correctly applied for users in large, complex organizations. (#1107)
    *   **Note**: Fetching a large number of group names may introduce a minor delay at login compared to fetching group IDs.

### Improvements

*   **Optimizes direct disk I/O on Linux by dynamically detecting filesystem data alignment requirements**. This prevents I/O errors and improves throughput on storage configurations with non-standard block alignment. (#1141)

### Bug Fixes

*   **Reduces upload latency in mixed replication environments** by processing synchronous targets immediately and queueing asynchronous tasks. Client operations now complete faster without waiting for background replication. (#1152)
    *   **Note**: An object's replication status may temporarily show as `PENDING` until asynchronous replication completes, which is now the expected behavior.
*   **Resolves an object access issue in multi-pool deployments after an upgrade from legacy versions**. The system now automatically falls back to check legacy object locations, ensuring seamless data availability without manual intervention. (#1154)

### Documentation

*   **Published a new guide for configuring Azure AD as an OIDC identity provider**. This documentation provides step-by-step instructions to simplify single sign-on (SSO) setup. (#1156)