What would you like to be added?

The etcd patch release criteria has been met for our release-3.5 stable branch, so we should release v3.5.24.

Work in progress CHANGELOG is: https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/blob/main/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-3.5.md#v3524-tba

The list of commits included since the previous release is: v3.5.23...release-3.5:

• [release-3.5] Reject watch request with -1 revision #20709
• [release-3.5] server/embed: Log EOF on DEBUG in TLS handshake #20751
• [release-3.5] Bump go to 1.24.9 #20806
• [release-3.5] Fix Learner promotion not being persisted into v3store may be propagated across multiple upgrades #20797

Outstanding tasks before releasing this version:

• [release-3.5] Fix Learner promotion not being persisted into v3store may be propagated across multiple upgrades #20797
• Bump to Go 1.25.3 / 1.24.9 #20799

Release team

Why is this needed?

Regular patch releases are vital to ensure our users have bug-free and secure software.