chore: release 1.6.97

Author: aws-sdk-kotlin-ci

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,16 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [1.6.97] - 06/16/2026
+
+### Features
+* (**directconnect**) Added VIF rate limiting support for AWS Direct Connect, allowing customers to set bandwidth allocations on virtual interfaces to manage traffic on dedicated connections.
+* (**outposts**) Adds support for creating an order from quotes.
+* (**partnercentralselling**) Added Prospecting APIs to convert engagements into AI-enriched leads with scoring insights. Extended Engagement APIs with ProspectingResult and Lead contexts. Added CoSell Scoring to GetAwsOpportunitySummary- quality score, trend, agent-driven recommendations, and engagement classification.
+* (**route53resolver**) Adds supports for PartnerManagedRules
+* (**s3**) Added support for annotations. You can now attach up to 1000 annotations (up to 1 MB each) directly to objects and create, retrieve, list, and delete them using new annotation APIs. Also added support for configuring an annotation table in S3 Metadata.
+* (**s3vectors**) Amazon S3 Vectors now supports paginated QueryVectors requests, returning up to 10,000 results per query.
+* (**sagemaker**) Add EnableDetailedObservability to Endpoint MetricsConfig. Publishes GPU, host, and framework-native inference metrics to CloudWatch with per-inference-component, availability-zone, and instance dimensions. Adds Inference Component provisioning lifecycle and multi-AZ placement metrics.
+
 ## [1.6.96] - 06/15/2026
 
 ### Features

gradle.properties

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx10g -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=2G
 org.gradle.parallel=true
 
 # sdk
-sdkVersion=1.6.97-SNAPSHOT
+sdkVersion=1.6.97
 
 # atomicfu
 kotlinx.atomicfu.enableJvmIrTransformation=true