v24.2.18

Bug Fixes

• #23363 #25028 rpk: fixes a bug where rpk incorrectly handles IPv6 by adding extra brackets. by @r-vasquez in #25067
• #25008 Schema Registry/Protobuf: Fix a regression with maps. by @BenPope in #25010

Improvements

• #25081 Use streaming parsing of transaction range manifests in tiered storage to avoid large allocations which lead to OOMs with heavy use of transactions. by @nvartolomei in #25083
• PR #25013 [v24.2.x] k/fetch: fix selecting replica with highest high watermark by @mmaslankaprv
• PR #25086 [v24.2.x] pandaproxy/sr: Improve schema lookup by @IoannisRP

Full Changelog: v24.2.17...v24.2.18