v24.3.7

[piyushredpanda]

Bug Fixes

• Fixes a bug in which urgent garbage collection of multiple partitions may only consider one partition in the set. by @WillemKauf in #25274
• #25283 Fix a bug in group management behaviour when the last member of a group expires while there are pending
  members in the group. by @pgellert in #25301
• fixes a very rare situation in which Raft leader can enter into infinite loop trying to recover follower. by @mmaslankaprv in #25338
• rpk: fixes a bug that prevented serverless cloud profiles from using rpk security user commands. by @r-vasquez in #25386
• PR #25300 [v24.3.x] k/topic_utils: do not iterate over the assignments set by @mmaslankaprv

Improvements

• #25125 schema_registry/protobuf: Rewrite protobuf normalization to improve compatibility with Java client by @BenPope in #25128
• PR #25355 [v24.3.x] rpk: make CLI and cluster versions explicit by @daisukebe
• PR #25362 [v24.3.x] rpk: bump dependencies to include security fixes by @r-vasquez

Full Changelog: v24.3.6...v24.3.7

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