- [improve][misc] Upgrade Netty to 4.1.122.Final and tcnative to 2.0.72.Final (#24397)
- [improve][build] replace org.apache.commons.lang to org.apache.commons.lang3 (#24473)
- [improve][misc] Upgrade RE2/J to 1.8 (#24530)
- [fix][client] Close orphan producer or consumer when the creation is interrupted (#24539)
- [fix][client] Fix ClientCnx handleSendError NPE (#24517)
- [fix][client] Fix issue in auto releasing of idle connection with topics pattern consumer (#24528)
- [fix][client] Fix some potential resource leak (#24402)
- [fix][client] NPE in MultiTopicsConsumerImpl.negativeAcknowledge (#24476)
- [fix][client] Prevent NPE when seeking with null topic in TopicMessageId (#24404)
- [fix][client][branch-4.0] Partitioned topics are unexpectedly created by client after deletion (#24554) (#24571)
- [fix][txn] Fix negative unacknowledged messages in transactions by ensuring that the batch size is added into CommandAck (#24443)
- [improve][client] Terminate consumer.receive() when consumer is closed (#24550)
- [fix][client] Fix RawReader interface compatibility
- [improve][misc] Optimize topic list hashing so that potentially large String allocation is avoided (#24525)