Lakefs

: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)

:new: What's new:

- UI: Allow commit message and metadata in merge action (6897)
- API: CreateRepository check if repository exists before trying to validate storage namespace (6967)
- lakectl: Add commit params to merge command (6892)
- Optimization - Reduce DynamoDB and CosmosDB calls by extending current range to include additional information (6983)

:bug: Bugs fixed:

- Fix - Lakefs crashing when using database.type=”dynamodb” and scylladb as a database (6924)
- Change 'committer' field from UserID to Email, when Email is available (6912)
- Use Buf CLI to compile our proto files (6784)
- Log time.Duration _twice_ in all modes, as string and as nanoseconds (6934)
- External auth remove required id from user model (6902)

:new: What's new:

- API: Added optional since parameter to commit log request (6851)
- lakectl: supported log 'since' flag (6854)
- Improved lakectl validation error messages (6816)

:bug: Bugs fixed:

- Fixed S3 gateway error on no underlying object (6822)
- Fixed branch protection 'not found' error (6846)