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 ### Highlights
 
+- **HMS Federation Support**: Added support for Hive Metastore (HMS) federation, enabling integration with existing Hive metastores.
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+- **Modularized Federation**: Introduced modularized federation architecture to support multiple catalog types and improve extensibility.
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+- **External Authentication**: Added comprehensive support for external identity providers including Keycloak integration and Helm chart configuration options.
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+- **Python Client Distribution**: The Python client is now packaged and distributed as a proper Python package for easier installation and usage.
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+- **Catalog Federation CLI**: Extended the CLI with support for managing federated catalogs, making it easier to configure and operate catalog federation.
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+- **MinIO**: Added MinIO integration support with comprehensive getting started documentation.
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 ### Upgrade notes
 
 ### Breaking changes
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 - Added Catalog configuration for S3 and STS endpoints. This also allows using non-AWS S3 implementations.
 
 - The `IMPLICIT` authentication type enables users to create federated catalogs without explicitly
-providing authentication parameters to Polaris. When the authentication type is set to `IMPLICIT`, 
-the authentication parameters are picked from the environment or configuration files. 
+providing authentication parameters to Polaris. When the authentication type is set to `IMPLICIT`,
+the authentication parameters are picked from the environment or configuration files.
 
 - The `DEFAULT_LOCATION_OBJECT_STORAGE_PREFIX_ENABLED` feature was added to support placing tables
 at locations that better optimize for object storage.
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 - Feature configuration `PURGE_VIEW_METADATA_ON_DROP` was added to allow dropping views without purging their metadata files.
 
+- Introduced S3 path-style access support for improved compatibility with S3-compatible storage systems.
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+- Enhanced Python client with integration tests and improved error handling.
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+- Introduced extensible pagination token implementation for better API performance.
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+- Added support for `s3a` scheme in addition to existing S3 schemes.
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+- Enhanced Helm chart with support for external authentication configuration and relational JDBC backend options.
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+- Added comprehensive diagnostics and monitoring capabilities throughout the system.
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+- Introduced bootstrap command options to specify custom schema files for database initialization.
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 ### Changes
 
 - Polaris Management API clients must be prepared to deal with new attributes in `AwsStorageConfigInfo` objects.