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+{
+    "type": "bugfix",
+    "category": "AWS SDK for Java v2",
+    "contributor": "",
+    "description": "Removed mapping for RESOLVED_CHECKSUM_SPECS execution attribute that was causing intermittent failures for S3 operations with checksums since 2.21.0 release. The bug can cause `java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot read field \"value\" because \"s1\" is null` exceptions, as reported in https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-java-v2/issues/4608."
+}