Core
- 
lexicalconcept suggester is now generally available (#1417, #1418)- This suggester uses an improved and accurate keyword matching strategy than the termsuggester
- Ensures that scores are always in the 0..1 range where 1.0 is usually an exact, high confidence match, while values closer to zero are less confident matches
- In case matches would receive the same scores the system will sort them by term length, shorter to longer
 
- This suggester uses an improved and accurate keyword matching strategy than the 
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Restore some missing terminology resource upgrade related capabilities from 7.x (#1411) - Introduce upgradeInfoexpandable property onupgradeOfscoped dependencies
 
- Introduce 
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Job Schema Upgrades (#1417) - Add a type property that can be used to filter job types based on the executed request hierarchy
- Job async execution context is now behaving the same as sync request execution context
 
SNOMED CT
- Improved namespace related information management in SNOMED CT CodeSystem resources (#1401)
- namespacesetting is the 7 digit namespace identifier assigned for a SNOMED CT Extension
- namespaceConceptIdare the actual conceptId holding the identifier in its description
 
Security
- Mitigate security vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-41248, CVE-2025-41249, CVE-2025-41242, CVE-2025-58751, CVE-2025-58752, CVE-2025-58754
Bugs/Improvements
- [index] support min_score clauses when executing an Elasticsearch query (bc9101f)
- [core] fixed an issue where invalid authentication token can bypass the authentication verification and can result in a HTTP 500 error later (e61d60a)
- [snomed] ensure that module dependency conflicts get auto-resolved during upgrades (#1402)
- [api] prevent empty dependencies array from materialization when retrieving a resource without selecting the dependencies field (4de14be)
- [api] resolve some OpenAPI specification consumption issues by improving the generated spec (#1404)
- [fhir] includeDesignations now properly returns all designations for a concept and also display proper labels for acceptability and type values (#1422)
- [build] exclude org.hl7.fhir and subpackages from jacoco code coverage (32589d4)
Dependencies
- Bump Jackson to 2.19.2
- Bump Spring to 6.2.11
- Bump Spring Security to 6.5.5
- Bump SpringDoc to 2.8.13
- Bump Swagger to 2.2.36