* Docs: update Helm Chart page to show usage without cloning Polaris github repo (apache#2939)

* Docs: update Helm Chart page to show usage without cloning Polaris github repo

* Apply suggestions from code review

* Add separate flows in Helm Chart doc for installing released chart and images vs building from source

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* docs: improve getting started and README documentation (apache#2267)

* The outdated config snippets and health-checks are removed from the index

* The binary guide stays focused and concise

* Update changelog with missing 1.3.0 features (apache#3087)

* Update registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/openjdk-21-runtime Docker tag to v1.23-6.1763034977 (apache#3092)

* Update docker.io/jaegertracing/all-in-one Docker tag to v1.75.0 (apache#3093)

* feat: Make generate_clients.py windows compatible (apache#3084)

* Make generate_clients.py windows compatible

* Updated CHANGELOG.md

* PRs: Remove markdown-links-check from required checks (apache#3102)

The "Check Markdown links" workflow is known to produce false failures, leading to apache#3097.

This change is intended to unblock PRs due to these false failures.

* Update dependency com.diffplug.spotless:spotless-plugin-gradle to v8.1.0 (apache#3083)

* Update dependency com.diffplug.spotless:spotless-plugin-gradle to v8.1.0

* spotlessApply

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* chore(deps): update gradle to v9.2.1 (apache#3069)

* chore(deps): update gradle to v9.2.1

* Fix Grale wrapper SHA

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* chore(deps): update mongo docker tag to v8.2.2 (apache#3100)

* chore(deps): update docker.io/mongo docker tag to v8.2.2 (apache#3099)

* Source-tarball - eliminate git-gzip risk (apache#3075)

Details in the `git archive` chapter in https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/archives/

* NoSQL: Allow `null` IndexKey (de)serialization (apache#3076)

This change adopts the implementation to the API specification.

* PRs: Re-add markdown-links-check step (apache#3103)

The step was disabled in apache#3102 to pass CI and enable merging.

* NoSQL: Add maintenance implementation (apache#3077)

* Inject DefaultFileIOFactory in tests (apache#3043)

* Inject DefaultFileIOFactory in tests

also simplify `TaskFileIOSupplier` usage in tests, which allows removal
of `TestFileIOFactory`.

* Update Quarkus Platform and Group to v3.29.4 (apache#3094)

* Site: Replace feather logo (apache#3101)

The ASF has a new logo, a leaf. There is sadly no free icon that matches the new logo, so replacing the feather-ASF with "The ASF" in the top-bar navigation.

* Update actions/checkout action to v6 (apache#3106)

* Core: resolveAll() must be called before reading resolution results (apache#3064)

* Site: Added GCS related Bucket Properties for vending credentials. (apache#3066)

* Publish/pom: don't include test-fixtures dependencies as runtime (apache#3085)

The list of dependencies in pom's includes the api/runtime elements of the test-fixtures, which is not what should be published, as it "pulls up" deps like junit, mockito and assertj as Maven runtime scope dependencies.
This change fixes this.

* Increase javadoc visibility in `persistence/nosql/persistence/cdi/weld` (apache#3110)

This is to fix javadoc error: `No public or protected classes found to document`

* Disable cloud storage tests that would use @tempdir (apache#3095)

Disable tests from ViewCatalogTests for cloud storage integration tests
(S3, ADLS, GCS) that would otherwise use @tempdir. Since @tempdir internally
uses Paths.get, it cannot point to cloud storage paths. These tests remain
enabled for file-based integration tests.

* Remove 'beta' label for Generic Table (apache#3096)

* remove beta label

* address comments for change log

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* Update dependency jupyterlab to v4.5.0 (apache#3074)

* chore: Fix md link check in GH action (apache#3128)

* Fix md link check in GH action

* Fix md link check in GH action

* Update dependency pre-commit to v4.5.0 (apache#3123)

* Update dependency software.amazon.awssdk:bom to v2.39.2 (apache#3127)

* NoSQL: authZ API, SPI, impl and store (apache#3078)

NoSQL base functionality for ACLs

* NoSQL: Quarkus distributed cache invalidation (apache#3105)

Adds support for distributed NoSQL cache invalidation leveraging Quarkus.

* NoSQL: adjustments / merge fixes

* Last merged commit e124348

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Co-authored-by: Mend Renovate <[email protected]>
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