v2.9.6

What's Changed

• chore: MiMa latest by @patriknw in #32484
• docs: Wrong path to some of the sample zip files by @johanandren in #32486
• bump: Agrona 1.22.0 by @johanandren in #32489
• Document and (partially) handle interactions involving k8s terminationGracePeriodSeconds by @leviramsey in #32487
• bump: classgraph 4.8.175 (was 4.8.174) by @scala-steward in #32495
• bump: sbt-ci-release 1.6.1 (was 1.5.12) by @scala-steward in #32491
• bump: metrics-core, metrics-jvm 4.2.27 (was 4.2.26) by @scala-steward in #32494
• bump: sbt-mima-plugin 1.1.4 (was 1.1.3) by @scala-steward in #32492
• bump: shaded protobuf-java 3.25.5 CVE-2024-7254 (backport) by @patriknw in #32524
• feat: Add license key check (2.9) by @patriknw in #32538
• chore: Update license change date for 2.9.6 by @patriknw in #32539

Full Changelog: v2.9.5...v2.9.6