Lakefs

:new: What's new:

- API: Presigned multipart uploads for S3. You can initiate presigned multipart uploads for Amazon S3 directly through the API. **experimental** (7246)

:bug: Bugs fixed:

- UI: DuckDB cached files fixed with cache buster: No more worries about outdated files. (7252)

:new: What's new:

- Allow empty commits option 7186

:new: What's new:

- Read-only repositories (7157)
- Add StopAt field to the CommitLog action (early-stop at a specific commit) (7222)

:bug: Bugs fixed:

- Fix: Return "bad request - 400" on reset branch with unknown type (7210)
- Fix: S3-gateway "delete" operation with branch protection should return 200 with error (7211)

:new: What's new:

- Delta Lake Catalog Exporter (7078)
- Unity Catalog Exporter (7167)

:bug: Bugs fixed:

- Fix: User with permission to write actions can impersonate another user when auth token is configured in environment variable
([GHSA-26hr-q2wp-rvc5](https://github.com/treeverse/lakeFS/security/advisories/GHSA-26hr-q2wp-rvc5))
- Fix: S3 Gateway block unsupported S3 operations (7028)
- Fix: Better error handling on hook error (7081)
- Fix: Upload object without specify content type (7130)
- Fix: UI notebook preview fix colors (7141)
- Fix: Match blockstore reader hash function (7099) (thanks hunjixin)
- UI improve load by cache and split of embedded content (7132,7135)

:new: What's new:

- Update AWS Go SDK v2 to support S3 express directory buckets (7083)
- API and lakectl: support long-running dump and restore operations (6975)
- lakectl: Improved performance for fs rm recursive command (7035)
- Glue Exporter: Support Hadoop directory markers (7058)

:bug: Bugs fixed:

- API: Fix StatsObject returned metadata on empty metadata (7026)
- API: Return the right default pagination per page- 100 instead of 1000 (7051)
- DynamoDB KV: Check if a table exists before we try to create it (7056)