Changelog.

Signed-off-by: Finn Carroll <[email protected]>

Author: finnegancarroll

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 - Field-level ignore_malformed should override index-level setting ([#18706](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/18706))
 - Fixed Staggered merge -  load average replace with AverageTrackers, some Default thresholds modified ([#18666](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/18666))
 - Use `new SecureRandom()` to avoid blocking ([18729](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/issues/18729))
+- Ignore awareness attributes when a custom preference string is included with a search request ([#18848](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/18848))
 - Use ScoreDoc instead of FieldDoc when creating TopScoreDocCollectorManager to avoid unnecessary conversion ([#18802](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/18802))
 - Fix leafSorter optimization for ReadOnlyEngine and NRTReplicationEngine ([#18639](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/18639))