v25.2.14

[tyson-redpanda]

Bug Fixes

• Adds better validation to arrays and strings being read off the wire from kafka clients. by @WillemKauf in #29228
• Fix a cache collision in in-memory spillover manifest cache which could lead to new topic reading data from the old topic with the same name for a short period of time. by @nvartolomei in #29089
• Iceberg: Allow bucket names with dots. Also, reject URIs returned by catalog that look like s3://bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/path/to/object. by @nvartolomei in #29095
• Reduces a window in which Redpanda may end up missing data when using the object_storage catalog for Iceberg Topics. Reminder: the object_storage is generally unsafe and should not be used in production. by @andrwng in #28532
• #29297 Fix the partition_response for a produce request to a LogAppendTime topic to accurately reflect the timestamp_type. by @WillemKauf in #29300
• prevents state machine from loading local snapshot with offsets greater than log dirty offset by @mmaslankaprv in #29007

Improvements

• Connection errors now report the resolved address where possible. by @BenPope in #29204
• kafka/client: Improve retry to logic to properly rotate all provided seed servers. by @BenPope in #29205
• PR #28312 [CORE-14442] rm_stm: do not reinsert producer to active tx producers list if present by @mmaslankaprv
• PR #29292 c/topic_table: use chunked_hash_map for lifecycle markers by @bashtanov

Full Changelog: v25.2.13...v25.2.14

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