[RELEASE] Quarkus 3.12.0

[Guillaume Smet]

Hello,

Quarkus 3.12.0 has been released, and is now available from the Maven Central repository. The quickstarts and documentation have also been updated.

More information in the announcement blog post: https://quarkus.io/blog/quarkus-3-12-0-released/.

* Major changes:

  * [#39825] Implementation of the internal TLS registry

  * [#40142] Load shedding

  * [#36826] Initial native image agent with JVM mode tests integration

  * [#37900] JDK Flight Recorder Extension

  * [#40729] Introduce container-image-podman extension

  * [#40344] Update Spring APIs to Spring Boot 3
  * [#40714] Enhance MongoDb otel integration
  * [#40745] Bump Kotlin 2.0.0

* BOM dependency:

  <dependency>
      <groupId>io.quarkus.platform</groupId>
      <artifactId>quarkus-bom</artifactId>
      <version>3.12.0</version>
      <type>pom</type>
      <scope>import</scope>
  </dependency>

* Changelogs are available from https://github.com/quarkusio/quarkus/releases/tag/3.12.0.CR1 and https://github.com/quarkusio/quarkus/releases/tag/3.12.0
* Download is available from https://github.com/quarkusio/quarkus/releases/tag/3.12.0
* Documentation: https://quarkus.io

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The Quarkus dev team