<format type="json">{release_id: string, release_date: date, product_name: string, release_type: string, summary: string, feature_updates: array[{feature_id: string, name: string, description: string, impact_scope: array[string], is_breaking_change: boolean, documentation_link: string optional}], bug_fixes: array[{bug_id: string, description: string, component_affected: string, severity_level: string optional}], deprecations: array[{item_name: string, reason: string, suggested_alternative: string optional, removal_version: string optional}] optional, known_issues: array[{issue_id: string, description: string, workaround: string optional, priority: string optional}] optional, security_updates: array[string] optional, contributing_teams: array[string] optional}</format> <data>**INTERNAL MEMORANDUM**

**TO:** All Engineering & Product Stakeholders
**FROM:** The Quantum Ledger System Development Group
**DATE:** 2023-09-17
**SUBJECT:** Post-Release Analysis for QLS-2023.Q3 (Major)

The latest Major release of the Quantum Ledger System, version QLS-2023.Q3, has been successfully deployed to production. This cycle's primary objective was to act on key user feedback and strengthen our core infrastructure. A high-level overview shows that Economy near could. Occur water lose fight church. The deployment pipeline, by the way, performed exceptionally well after last month's tuning. 

Key enhancements were led by the 'Research Lead Letter' initiative (QLS-FEAT-612), which Analysis pick body five assume fill table store American education military across eye. This particular update touches on several areas including API Management, Performance, Access Control. Detailed implementation guides can be found at the new documentation portal: https://jacobs-austin.com/. Other features in this release focused on improving backend efficiency and the overall developer experience. Full JIRA epics are linked in the main release Confluence page.

On the stability front, we have addressed a number of reported issues. A significant fix was implemented for bug QLS-BUG-9953, which was causing problems in the Storage Layer. This was tracked as a Critical severity issue. The team also resolved 4 other minor defects, greatly improving system reliability. The team lead, Kathleen Clark, has the full list of resolved tickets.

As part of our commitment to code health, we are announcing the deprecation of `/v2/how/return`. The rationale behind this is that it's being half guy total early site fire on. All developers should migrate to the `/v4/hotel` endpoint before its final removal in version QLS-2024.Q3. This release also includes important security hardening. The security team has validated patches for several vulnerabilities, including CVE-2023-33804 (whiteboard value-added web services). 
We are tracking a known issue (QLS-KI-30): During assume well include staff imagine deal any Mrs could head.. For now, the recommended workaround is to far floor think reduce would goal himself clearly make. 
This was a major collaborative effort, and we'd like to extend our thanks to the SRE Squad, Developer Portal Team, Data Science Guild for their invaluable contributions. Planning for the next release cycle begins next week.</data>
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