2026.5.0

What's Changed

• Fix zonal documentation about finalized objects by @Mahalaxmibejugam in #828
• Enable branch wise tracking by @googlyrahman in #819
• fix: adjust fsspec dependency version constraint by @zhixiangli in #834
• Add support for partial prefixes in find method for HNS buckets by @Mahalaxmibejugam in #831
• Add workflow to automate PyPI package publishing on release by @Yonghui-Lee in #824
• Fix HttpError message formatting and handle None content in validate_response by @zhixiangli in #835
• Integrate prefetcher engine with zonal buckets by @googlyrahman in #805
• Update the benchmark config, and fix the block size propogation by @googlyrahman in #808
• Add pypi environment to release workflow by @Yonghui-Lee in #836

Full Changelog: 2026.4.0...2026.5.0