Release 2.38.1. Updated CHANGELOG.md, README.md and all pom.xml.

Author: AWS

.changes/2.38.1.json

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+{
+    "version": "2.38.1",
+    "date": "2025-11-06",
+    "entries": [
+        {
+            "type": "bugfix",
+            "category": "AWS SDK for Java v2",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "Increased the default chunk size from 16KB to 128KB for async trailer-based checksum data transfers when using a custom legacy signer"
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "AWS Backup",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "AWS Backup now supports customer-managed keys (CMK) for logically air-gapped vaults, enabling customers to maintain full control over their encryption key lifecycle. This feature helps organizations meet specific internal governance requirements or external regulatory compliance standards."
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "AWS IoT",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "Unsuppress the following operations that were previously suppressed:\n\n - AttachPrincipalPolicy\n - DetachPrincipalPolicy\n - ListPolicyPrincipals\n - ListPrincipalPolicies\n\nThese operations were previously supporessed because they were deprecated. However, this may be a blocker for customers moving from V1 to V2, so make these available for those customers."
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "AWS SSO Identity Store",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "IdentityStore API: added new KMSExceptionReason fields to the Exception object; added multiple new fields to the User APIs - UserStatus, Birthdate, Website and Photos; added multiple new metadata fields for User, Groups and Membership APIs - CreatedAt, CreatedBy, UpdatedAt and UpdatedBy."
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "Access Analyzer",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "New field totalActiveErrors added to getFindingsStatistics response."
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "Amazon Connect Service",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "Added support for Conditional Questions in Evaluation Forms. Introduced Auto Evaluation capability for Evaluation Forms and Contact Evaluations. Added new API operations: SearchEvaluationForms and SearchContactEvaluations."
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "Add Amazon EC2 R8a instance types"
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "Amazon GameLift",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "Amazon GameLift Servers now supports game builds that use the Windows 2022 operating system."
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "Amazon QuickSight",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "Support for New Data Prep Experience"
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "Amazon S3 Tables",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "Adds support for tagging APIs for S3 Tables"
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "Amazon S3 Vectors",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "Amazon S3 Vectors provides cost-effective, elastic, and durable vector storage for queries based on semantic meaning and similarity."
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "Amazon SageMaker Service",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "Added NodeProvisioningMode parameter to UpdateCluster API to determine how instance provisioning is handled during cluster operations; in Continuous mode. Added VpcId field in UpdateDomain request for SageMaker Unified Studio domains with no VPC to add a customer VPC."
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "Amazon Simple Systems Manager (SSM)",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "Provides NoLongerSupportedException error message"
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "AWS SDK for Java v2",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "Updated endpoint and partition metadata."
+        }
+    ]
+}