Release 2.42.29. Updated CHANGELOG.md, README.md and all pom.xml.

Author: AWS

.changes/2.42.29.json

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+{
+    "version": "2.42.29",
+    "date": "2026-04-06",
+    "entries": [
+        {
+            "type": "bugfix",
+            "category": "AWS SDK for Java v2",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "Add business metrics tracking for precomputed checksum headers in requests."
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "bugfix",
+            "category": "Apache 5 HTTP Client",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "Fixed a connection leak that could occur when the thread waiting to acquire a connection from the pool is interrupted. Fixes [#6786](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-java-v2/issues/6786)."
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "bugfix",
+            "category": "Netty NIO HTTP Client",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "Include channel diagnostics in Read/Write timeout error messages to aid debugging."
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "AWSDeadlineCloud",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "Added 8 batch APIs (BatchGetJob, BatchGetStep, BatchGetTask, BatchGetSession, BatchGetSessionAction, BatchGetWorker, BatchUpdateJob, BatchUpdateTask) for bulk operations. Monitors can now use an Identity Center instance in a different region via the identityCenterRegion parameter."
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "AWS MediaTailor",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "This change adds support for Tagging the resource types Programs and Prefetch Schedules"
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "AWS Transfer Family",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "AWS Transfer Family Connectors now support IPv6 connectivity, enabling outbound connections to remote SFTP or AS2 servers using IPv4-only or dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) configurations based on network requirements."
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "Access Analyzer",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "Brookie helps customers preview the impact of SCPs before deployment using historical access activity. It evaluates attached policies and proposed policy updates using collected access activity through CloudTrail authorization events and reports where currently allowed access will be denied."
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "This release adds support for Fast Snapshot Restore AvailabilityZone Ids in Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager EBS snapshot lifecycle policies."
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "Amazon GuardDuty",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "Migrated to Smithy. No functional changes"
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "Amazon Lightsail",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "This release adds support for the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5) Region."
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "Amazon Location Service Maps V2",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "This release updates API reference documentation for Amazon Location Service Maps APIs to reflect regional restrictions for Grab Maps users"
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "Amazon Q Connect",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "Added optional originRequestId parameter to SendMessageRequest and ListSpans response in Amazon Q in Connect to support request tracing across service boundaries."
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "AWS SDK for Java v2",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "Updated endpoint and partition metadata."
+        }
+    ]
+}