Release 2.42.24. Updated CHANGELOG.md, README.md and all pom.xml.

Author: AWS

.changes/2.42.24.json

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+{
+    "version": "2.42.24",
+    "date": "2026-03-30",
+    "entries": [
+        {
+            "type": "bugfix",
+            "category": "AWS SDK for Java v2",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "Optimized JSON serialization by skipping null field marshalling for payload fields"
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "bugfix",
+            "category": "Amazon DynamoDB Enhanced Client",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "Improved performance by caching partition and sort key name lookups in StaticTableMetadata."
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "AWSDeadlineCloud",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "AWS Deadline Cloud now supports three new fleet auto scaling settings. With scale out rate, you can configure how quickly workers launch. With worker idle duration, you can set how long workers wait before shutting down. With standby worker count, you can keep idle workers ready for fast job start."
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "AWS DevOps Agent Service",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "AWS DevOps Agent General Availability."
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "AWS Lake Formation",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "Add setSourceIdentity to DataLakeSettings Parameters"
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "Amazon AppStream",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "Add support for URL Redirection"
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "Amazon Bedrock AgentCore",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "Adds Ground Truth support for AgentCore Evaluations (Evaluate)"
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "Amazon CloudWatch Logs",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "Adds Lookup Tables to CloudWatch Logs for log enrichment using CSV key-value data with KMS encryption support."
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "Amazon EC2 Container Service",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "Adding Local Storage support for ECS Managed Instances by introducing a new field \"localStorageConfiguration\" for CreateCapacityProvider and UpdateCapacityProvider APIs."
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "Amazon GameLift",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "Update CreateScript API documentation."
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "Amazon OpenSearch Service",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "Added Cluster Insights API's In OpenSearch Service SDK."
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "Amazon SageMaker Service",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "Added support for placement strategy and consolidation for SageMaker inference component endpoints. Customers can now configure how inference component copies are distributed across instances and availability zones (AZs), and enable automatic consolidation to optimizes resource utilization."
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "Auto Scaling",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "Adds support for new instance lifecycle states introduced by the instance lifecycle policy and replace root volume features."
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "Partner Central Account API",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "KYB Supplemental Form enables partners who fail business verification to submit additional details and supporting documentation through a self-service form, triggering an automated re-verification without requiring manual intervention from support teams."
+        }
+    ]
+}