Release 1.24.0

What's Changed

• chore: [DevOps] bump the test group with 2 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #989
• chore: [DevOps] Ignore Spring AI v2 update by @Jonas-Isr in #992
• chore: [DevOps] Revert temporary switch to NVD datafeed by @Jonas-Isr in #991
• chore: [DevOps] bump com.diffplug.spotless:spotless-maven-plugin from 3.9.0 to 3.10.0 in the test group by @dependabot[bot] in #995
• chore: [DevOps] bump org.json:json from 20260719 to 20260814 in the production-major group across 1 directory by @dependabot[bot] in #993
• chore: [Orchestration] Add new model to OrchestrationAiModel by @Jonas-Isr in #997
• chore: [DevOps] Pin jackson version (v2 and v3) to avoid CVE by @Jonas-Isr in #998
• chore: [DevOps] bump the production-minor-patch group across 1 directory with 12 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #999
• chore: [DevOps] Evaluate beta annotations by @Jonas-Isr in #990
• chore: [Orchestration] support gemini-3.6-flash model by @vladimir-a-sap in #1000
• fix: [DevOps] NVD scan remove branch specific caches and increase timeout by @CharlesDuboisSAP in #1001
• fix: Fix failed e2e tests slack notifications by @vladimir-a-sap in #1002
• chore: [DevOps] Remove Apache Tomcat vulnerability suppression by @CharlesDuboisSAP in #1003
• fix: [DevOps] Remove kotlin from parent pom by @CharlesDuboisSAP in #1005
• feat: [RPT] Update RPT client to version 1.5 by @CharlesDuboisSAP in #976
• feat: [DevOps] Add requireUpperBoundDeps rule to align dependency versions used by @Jonas-Isr in #1007
• fix: e2e tests by @vladimir-a-sap in #1008
• fix: speech to speech e2e test by @vladimir-a-sap in #1009

Full Changelog: https://github.com/SAP/ai-sdk-java/commits/rel/1.24.0