- Metrics default to the more compact Datadog v3 intake (bandwidth reduction); v2 intake can be re‑enabled via config flags, and the exporter.datadogexporter.metricremappingdisabled flag is removed.
- In‑place vertical autoscaling is now the default strategy, process manager is enabled by default, and many new GPU metrics (memory utilization, PCI link speed/width, nvlink errors) and Go stack‑trace aggregation for logs are added.
- APM remote‑configuration now supports dynamic span tag mapping and independent agent‑config subscription; Linux systemd unit names for the process manager are renamed (breaking for scripts), and Security Agent policies are bumped to v0.8...
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Auto‑enable logon duration when infrastructure mode end‑user device is set, still overridable via config.
Fixed Windows Agent install/upgrade where DDAGENTUSER arguments were overridden by stale registry or service account values.
Enable automatic multi‑line log detection by default; can be disabled via logs.config.auto_multi_line_detection or the corresponding env var.