Merge pull request #2141 from beyonnex-io/ditto-371

prepare release notes for Ditto 3.7.1

documentation/src/main/resources/_data/sidebars/ditto_sidebar.yml

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+          - title: 3.7.1
+            url: /release_notes_371.html
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           - title: 3.7.0
             url: /release_notes_370.html
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documentation/src/main/resources/pages/ditto/release_notes_371.md

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+---
+title: Release notes 3.7.1
+tags: [release_notes]
+published: true
+keywords: release notes, announcements, changelog
+summary: "Version 3.7.1 of Eclipse Ditto, released on 05.03.2025"
+permalink: release_notes_371.html
+---
+
+This is a bugfix release, no new features since [3.7.0](release_notes_370.html) were added.
+
+## Changelog
+
+Compared to the latest release [3.7.0](release_notes_370.html), the following changes and bugfixes were added.
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+This is a complete list of the
+[merged pull requests](https://github.com/eclipse-ditto/ditto/pulls?q=is%3Apr+milestone%3A3.7.1).
+
+#### Update SSHD version fixing security vulnerabilities
+
+PR [#2133](https://github.com/eclipse-ditto/ditto/pull/2133) updates the used dependency sshd-core to the latest version, 
+which fixes the known security vulnerabilities in dependencies of `sshd-core`.
+
+#### Fix configuration of throttling of search index after policy update
+
+The Helm chart configuration for the Ditto search index throttling contained a typo which was fixed in PR 
+[#2134](https://github.com/eclipse-ditto/ditto/pull/2134).
+
+#### Fix migrate thing definition validation issue for dry-runs
+
+PR [#2136](https://github.com/eclipse-ditto/ditto/pull/2136) fixes an issue where the error message of a "dry-run" 
+[migration of a thing's definition](httpapi-concepts.html#things-in-api-2---migrate-thing-definitions) (added in 
+Ditto 3.7.0) was not correctly returned in case of validation errors.
+
+#### Fix pre-defined extraFields caused missing extra data for thing creation events
+
+The in Ditto 3.7.0 added configuration option to configure 
+[pre-defined extraFields](installation-operating.html#pre-defined-extra-fields-configuration) caused for creation of
+things that the `extra` fields were missing in the created event. This was fixed in PR [#2137](https://github.com/eclipse-ditto/ditto/pull/2137).
+
+#### Fix that kamon configuration was not loaded
+
+PR [#2140](https://github.com/eclipse-ditto/ditto/pull/2140) fixes that the Kamon configuration was not loaded correctly.
+
+#### Fix that HTTP push connection issues with slow target endpoints
+
+Issue [#2138](https://github.com/eclipse-ditto/ditto/issues/2138) brought up that Ditto managed [HTTP-push](connectivity-protocol-bindings-http.html)
+connections could drop messages under load and/or slowly responding HTTP target endpoints.  
+The exiting configuration for scaling the thread pool were wrong, which was fixed in PR [#2139](https://github.com/eclipse-ditto/ditto/pull/2139).
+