v24.2.4

Bug Fixes

• Fixes a regression in schema registry where concurrent requests could lead to memory faults by @oleiman in #23136
• #23107 Schema Registry: fixes a bug in the protobuf compatibility checks of nested fields where nested paths were incorrectly handled. by @pgellert in #23110
• fixes not fencing subsequent producer requests after its transaction has been expired by @mmaslankaprv in #23152
• rpk: fix a bug in rpk cloud login that prevented --no-profile from working when used with SSO login. by @r-vasquez in #23066

Improvements

• #23077 Schema Registry: Tolerate null metadata and ruleSet when registering or querying a schema by @BenPope in #23078
• #23107 Schema Registry: now reports more specific error messages for Avro and Protobuf schemas when they are incompatible with earlier schemas. by @pgellert in #23110

Full Changelog: v24.2.3...v24.2.4