General
- Advisory: GHSA-89hf-hh2w-258f
Elasticsearch metadata plugin Painless script injection when deleting metadata
Enhancements
- Documentation: Add an AGENTS.md to guide AI-assisted and new contributions to our policies #8605
- Documentation: Remove outdated etc/certs/README.rst #8759
- Testing: Check whether new PRs use the standard PR template #8793
Bugs
- Testing: Improve runtime of the test
test_hermes #8778
- Testing:
test_help_menus fails running under pytest-xdist with ValueError: signal only works in main thread of the main interpreter #8780