Summary of important changes in v1.5

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The v1.5 minor version of the AWS SDK for Kotlin is planned and will include the important changes listed below.

Target release date

The AWS SDK for Kotlin aligns its minor version releases to follow shortly after minor version releases of the Kotlin language. Currently, SDK v1.5 is scheduled to be released shortly after Kotlin 2.2, early in July 2025. See JetBrains' Kotlin releases documentation for more information.

Breaking changes

The following changes may break some existing code or configurations:

• Overhaul of Endpoint Discovery features
• Region-related classes package restructuring

Removed APIs

The following previously-@Deprecated APIs have been removed:

• Obsolete secondary constructor for class PartitionConfig. The primary constructor retains all of the same capabilities but with slightly different types/positions.
• class UnsupportedSigningAlgorithmInterceptor. This exception is no longer thrown by the SDK.