8.9.7

✨ New Features

• 279da28 - saas: report App Integrations connector availability per cluster (#7835) (PR #7918 by @team-connectors-int-automation[bot])
• 4c4a43c - dynamodb: honor configuration.endpoint override and add LocalStack e2e baseline (#7991) (PR #8008 by @chillleader)
• f42546a - sagemaker: migrate to AWS SDK v2 (#8028) (PR #8087 by @chillleader)
• 0caaf14 - textract: migrate to AWS SDK v2 (#8030) (PR #8091 by @team-connectors-int-automation[bot])
• c478b7d - dynamodb: migrate to AWS SDK v2 (PR #8032 by @chillleader)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• db3417c - add package.json and package-lock.json to CODEOWNERS Renovate exclusions (PR #7720 by @ztefanie)
• 1e4073a - document-handling: Fix missing file size check on large inline d… (#7608) (PR #7695 by @ztefanie)
• 0380fad - restrict outbound connector secret resolution (#7568) (PR #7740 by @jonathanlukas)
• c469cca - bump tomcat-embed-core to 11.0.23 (PR #7772 by @johnBgood)
• 536893b - e2e: fix inbound e2e tests not able to boot spring context due to second cache manager bean (#7764) (PR #7768 by @team-connectors-int-automation[bot])
• 5509b49 - csv: validate headers for object-based CSV write input (#7846) (PR #7850 by @team-connectors-int-automation[bot])
• b18250c - openapi-parser: resolve $ref parameters from components (#7738) (PR #7782 by @team-connectors-int-automation[bot])
• 3e52302 - bump parsson to 1.1.9 to address CVE-2026-9563 (PR #7840 by @ztefanie)
• b565d4d - email: handle document upload failures gracefully to prevent infinite retry loop (#7735) (PR #7944 by @team-connectors-int-automation[bot])
• 005b8b6 - improve error handling for interrupted job evaluation (PR #8006 by @mathias-vandaele)
• 8385cd3 - eventbridge: restore result payload lost in SDK v2 migration (#7977) (PR #8021 by @team-connectors-int-automation[bot])
• c4152c0 - http-client: preserve response headers on bodyless success responses (204) (#8046) (PR #8084 by @team-connectors-int-automation[bot])
• ba2926e - override lz4-java to 1.11.1 to address transitive vulnerability (#8114) (PR #8123 by @team-connectors-int-automation[bot])
• b11d321 - update release workflow to import secrets and create Maven settings.xml (PR #8126 by @mathias-vandaele)
• 3817993 - release: update Artifactory credentials and adjust mirror configurations in settings.xml (#8141) (PR #8143 by @team-connectors-int-automation[bot])
• 64802de - inbound: retry publishing a lost process state change (#8150) (PR #8174 by @mathias-vandaele)

✅ Tests

• cc18cb6 - sagemaker: pin result JSON shapes as golden fixtures (#7987) (PR #8002 by @team-connectors-int-automation[bot])
• 4e09a0d - comprehend: pin v1 result JSON shapes as golden fixtures (#7989) (PR #8004 by @team-connectors-int-automation[bot])
• 56eccde - dynamodb: pin v1 result JSON shapes as golden fixtures (#7992) (PR #8005 by @team-connectors-int-automation[bot])
• a942fa6 - textract: pin v1 result JSON shapes as golden fixtures (#7990) (PR #8007 by @team-connectors-int-automation[bot])
• 55fa38e - sns: pin inbound webhook result JSON shape as golden fixture (#7988) (PR #8003 by @team-connectors-int-automation[bot])

🔧 Chores

• 23b21b8 - backport AlwaysGreen failure feedback to stable/8.9 (PR #7728 by @slolatte)
• 58d8265 - add GCP and AWS registry URLs to PR Docker image comment (#7792) (PR #7796 by @johnBgood)