New Features

• [New Features][ESPnet2][Codec] Add HiFiCodec model [#5898] by @RayYuki

Enhancement

• [Enhancement][ESPnetEZ] Add missing functionalities for espnetez [#5890] by @Masao-Someki

Recipe

• [Recipe][ESPnet2][ASR] My Science Tutor (MyST) Children's Conversational Speech Corpus [#5964] by @eric102004
• [Recipe][ESPnet2] Feature/improve is24 asr2 [#5938] by @juice500ml
• [Recipe][ESPnet2][ASR] Add asr1 recipe for libriheavy_small [#5932] by @Miamoto
• [Recipe][ESPnet2][SID] Add RATS dataset for SV task [#5840] by @shimhz

Bugfix

• [Bugfix][ESPnet2][Diarization] [Bugfix] fix keyword argument error in stage 7 of diar.sh [#5969] by @eric102004
• [Bugfix][ESPnetEZ] Bug fixed for [#5949] [#5950] by @Masao-Someki
• [Bugfix][ESPnet2][ASR] removed ''continue'' statement from the for loop in run_mono.sh [#5946] by @Trikaldarshi
• [Bugfix][ESPnet2] Add SWBD text processing fix [#5941] by @siddhu001
• [Bugfix][ESPnet2][ESPnet1] Training code patches [#5931] by @wanchichen

Documentation

• [Documentation] Fix bug in document that overflows the page [#5940] by @juice500ml
• [Documentation] Update CI reference [#5939] by @emmanuel-ferdman
• [Documentation] fix: collcate_fn -> collate_fn [#5925] by @kalvinchang
• [Documentation][Docker][Installation][CI] Migration from Anaconda to conda-forge [#5924] by @yoshipon

Others

• [Others][ESPnet2][Codec] Fix versa interface [#5951] by @ftshijt
• [Others][ESPnet2][ESPnet1] Add OWSM-CTC [#5933] by @pyf98
• [Others][ESPnet2] Recipe/ogi kids speech [#5916] by @anyuyay

Acknowledgements

Special thanks to @Masao-Someki, @Miamoto, @RayYuki, @Trikaldarshi, @anyuyay, @emmanuel-ferdman, @eric102004, @ftshijt, @juice500ml, @kalvinchang, @pyf98, @shimhz, @siddhu001, @wanchichen, @yoshipon.