v1.37.8 - Introduce rate limiter in batch simple logic, Backup access check Fix

Breaking Changes

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New Features

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Fixes

• use the same update time for batch references everywhere by @dirkkul in #11553
• refactor(schema): extract tokenize logic into shared usecase by @mpartipilo in #11180
• Revert "refactor(schema): extract tokenize logic into shared usecase" by @antas-marcin in #11558
• fix(inverted): index references provided as untyped JSON beacons by @moogacs in #11551
• Fix race in dynamic users with concurrent pointer access by @dirkkul in #11573
• Interpret empty string as empty for slices in dynamic runtime config by @dirkkul in #11589
• fix(resource): don't auto-recover shards read-only for a non-resource reason by @amourao in #11581
• test: deflake TestReplicationDigestObjectsInRange/TruncatedBinaryRecord (backport #11511 to v1.36) by @jeroiraz in #11595
• fix: docker login and dowload retry by @amourao in #11599
• test: deflake replication client tests via generous default timeoutUnit by @jeroiraz in #11601
• Fix flaky HNSW search test by @dirkkul in #11579
• Add more unit tests for backups by @dirkkul in #10769
• Dynamic runtime list parsing by @dirkkul in #11605
• Use flat index to assert brute force search by @dirkkul in #11608
• fix: increase retry wait time and reduce timeout for Docker Hub login by @amourao in #11610
• Speed up rbac authz tests by @dirkkul in #11607
• Reuse testcontainers in tests for fast group 3 by @dirkkul in #11612
• Remove deprecation notice for weaviate.json config file by @dirkkul in #11615
• Fix flaky usage test by @dirkkul in #11617
• Remove flaky dynamic index latency assertion by @asdine in #11623
• chore: lower async replication scheduler defaults by @jeroiraz in #11630
• feat(modules): introduce rate limiter logic in batch simple logic by @antas-marcin in #11637
• ci(docker): switch docker pipelines to use Ubicloud's premium runners by @antas-marcin in #11641
• ci: switch back multi-arch docker image build pipeline to ubuntu-latest by @antas-marcin in #11646
• Add deterministic tie-breaking for equal-distance vector search results by @abdelr in #11632
• Use local HuggingFace cache for ann-datasets to avoid 429 by @asdine in #11649
• fix(backup): return 422 instead of 500 when backend module is missing by @gkampitakis in #11666
• Add env vars to disable bucket access check by @dirkkul in #11645
• backport: chore: add slack notifier for release notes (#11576) by @moogacs in #11674

Full Changelog: v1.37.7...v1.37.8