This document lists the new features, 
enhancements, fixed issues, and removed or deprecated features for Hazelcast Platform 5.1.3 release.
The numbers in the square brackets refer to the issues in Hazelcast's GitHub repositories.


==== 5.1.3 Release Notes ====

1. Enhancements

* Improved connection handling. https://github.com/hazelcast/hazelcast/pull/21641[#21641]

2. Fixes

* When the `hazelcast.socket.buffer.direct` property is enabled, clusters no longer throw exceptions in response to text protocols such as the REST API.
https://github.com/hazelcast/hazelcast/pull/21700[#21700]


