What's Changed

CI/CD Improvements

• Adding CodeQL Workflow for Java by @mukundnigam in #480
• Weekly Sunday build for the CI by @vivekjilla in #483
• changing cron to run at weekly schedule by @mukundnigam in #485
• Adding code mirror pipeline yaml by @jainharsh98 in #488
• Adding Public and Official build pipelines by @jainharsh98 in #500
• Installing .NET8 sdk for Official Build Pipeline by @jainharsh98 in #512

Extension Improvements

• Upgrading package versions for E2E tests to .net8 by @vivekjilla in #499
• Upgrading confluent package to 2.4.0 by @vivekjilla in #504
• Fixed inconsistency between consumer and producer config by @gvdwiele in #464
• Added OAuthBearer authentication mode by @nakah in #437
• Updating extension version to 4.0.0 by @jainharsh98 in #510
• Resolving Oauthbearer Authentication Attributes from Settings for Output Binding by @jainharsh98 in #511

Bug Fixes

• Fix scale monitor descriptor function id by @pierre-sk in #451
• Fixing Msg commit for Cancellation Scenarios by @jainharsh98 in #505
• Allowing schema registry creation for out of proc data types by @jainharsh98 in #506
• Schema registry Url and Config Count Fix by @jainharsh98 in #507

New Contributors

• @pierre-sk made their first contribution in #451
• @gvdwiele made their first contribution in #464
• @nakah made their first contribution in #437