What's Changed

Huge thanks to everyone for your contributions and feedback 🧡.

The NuGet packages for this release have been attested for supply chain security using actions/attest. This confirms the integrity and provenance of the artifacts and helps ensure they can be trusted: #54051351.

🚀 Features

• feat: Add common WithSsl builder API and support it in Azurite (#1788) @aleksandarMilev, @HofmeisterAn
• feat: Add BuildKit support for image builds via sidecar container (#1761) @george-petrakis, @HofmeisterAn
• feat(Elasticsearch): Add OTLP and certificate support (#1774) @HofmeisterAn

🐛 Bug Fixes

• fix(PostgreSql): Support SSL with Alpine images and non-root users (#1790) @HofmeisterAn
• fix: Do not pull base image with unresolved platform variable (#1787) @HofmeisterAn
• fix(Kafka): Default to KRaft for Confluent Platform 8.x images (#1775) @arnelirobles, @HofmeisterAn
• fix(Kafka): Drop the trailing comma from advertised listeners (#1772) @arnelirobles, @HofmeisterAn
• fix: Prevent Docker ignore patterns from matching path prefixes (#1768) @Benziza, @HofmeisterAn

📖 Documentation

• docs: Complete builder API tables and align heading casing (#1778) @HofmeisterAn
• docs: Explain how builder configurations combine (#1770) @arnelirobles, @HofmeisterAn

🧹 Housekeeping

• fix: Regenerate expired test certificates (#1786) @zcsizmadia
• chore: Resolve Sonar findings (#1776) @HofmeisterAn
• chore: Remove Minio module (#1769) @HofmeisterAn
• chore: Publish NuGet packages with Trusted Publishing (OIDC) (#1763) @HofmeisterAn
• feat: Prepare next release cycle (4.16.0) (#1762) @HofmeisterAn

📦 Dependency Updates

• chore(deps): Bump the actions group with 5 updates (#1781) @dependabot[bot]