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+---
+title: Release notes 3.6.11
+tags: [release_notes]
+published: true
+keywords: release notes, announcements, changelog
+summary: "Version 3.6.11 of Eclipse Ditto, released on 14.02.2025"
+permalink: release_notes_3611.html
+---
+
+This is a bugfix release, no new features since [3.6.10](release_notes_3610.html) were added.
+
+## Changelog
+
+Compared to the latest release [3.6.10](release_notes_3610.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%3A3.6.11).
+
+#### Fix regression in message response WoT validation failing for non-json responses
+
+PR [#2118](https://github.com/eclipse-ditto/ditto/pull/2118) fixes a bug introduced in Ditto `3.6.10` which caused
+that responses to [messages](basic-messages.html) which were not of content-type `application/json` were rejected as 
+"not valid" by the WoT validation, even if the WoT validation was disabled.
+
+#### Fix "If-Equal: skip" header was not treating policies/things as equal in certain situations
+
+E.g. `thingId` or `policyId` were not equally treated when comparing old to new thing/policy - which caused the entity
+to always be different, even if it did not change at all.  
+PR [#2116](https://github.com/eclipse-ditto/ditto/pull/2116) provides a fix.
+
+#### Ditto connections which contained failures in payload mappers did not show that in their "metrics"
+
+Issue [#2115](https://github.com/eclipse-ditto/ditto/issues/2115) reported an inconsistency when handling failures in 
+Ditto connections in regard to payload mappings which result in errors.  
+Those errors could be seen in the connection "logs", however not in the connection metrics, as the metric category "other"
+was missing.  
+This was fixed in PR [#2119](https://github.com/eclipse-ditto/ditto/pull/2119) which adds this category and counts correctly
+error in payload mappings.
+
+### Helm Chart
+
+#### Fix privilege escalation for pod deletion job
+
+PR [#2113](https://github.com/eclipse-ditto/ditto/pull/2113) provides a fix for a potential privilege escalation issue 
+regarding the pod deletion job in the Ditto Helm chart.