v26.1.6

[piyushredpanda]

Bug Fixes

• Changes to cloud_storage_throughput_limit_percent cluster config now take effect at runtime instead of being ignored until restart. by @nvartolomei in #30233
• Fixes a potential deadlock arising from race between raft snapshots and transaction opertions. by @bharathv in #30226
• Prevents a potential oversized allocation in kafka protocol parsing of tagged fields by @rockwotj in #30166
• PR #30209 [v26.1.x] utils: fix token bucket underflow after rate decrease by @nvartolomei

Improvements

• Better guard against malformed requests when parsing kafka messages by @rockwotj in #30196
• Cloud topics long-term storage metadata will now be managed as a part of the cloud cache. by @andrwng in #30201
• PR #30180 [v26.1.x] c/rm_stm: downgrade log level of skipping cleanup by @bharathv
• PR #30212 [v26.1.x] cloud_io: release client lease before retry backoff sleep by @nvartolomei
• PR #30215 [v26.1.x] storage: Avoid oversized alloc in compaction reducers by @StephanDollberg
• PR #30221 [v26.1.x] lsm/io: skip delete_objects call when no keys to delete by @nvartolomei
• PR #30234 [v26.1.x] ct/l1: remove unnecessary std::to_underlying in error formatting by @nvartolomei

Full Changelog: v26.1.5...v26.1.6

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