v25.2.4

[piyushredpanda]

Bug Fixes

• Fixes a bug in Redpanda Iceberg manifest deserialization that would cause Redpanda to fail to commit new Iceberg files following an external operation that wrote manifests with the lower_bounds field. by @andrwng in #27520
• Fixes not setting system trust store when one is not provided by @mmaslankaprv in #27474

Improvements

• PR #27142 [v25.2.x] c/leaders_table: wire in controller abort source by @mmaslankaprv
• PR #27516 [v25.2.x] CORE-13288 dt/simple_http_server: respond after valid request by @pgellert
• PR #27522 [v25.2.x] iceberg: fix lint by @andrwng

Full Changelog: v25.2.3...v25.2.4

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