v24.3.16

Bug Fixes

• prevents Redpanda from crashing when reading invalid record data by @mmaslankaprv in #26494

Improvements

• Allows direct uploading of debug bundles collected with rpk debug remote-bundle by @JFlath in #26514
• Fixes an issue in which users could experience oversized allocations during a DescribeGroup request. by @WillemKauf in #26531
• PR #26444 [v24.3.x] storage: call reserve() in storage::range() by @WillemKauf

Full Changelog: v24.3.15...v24.3.16