- Breaking: Jaeger now creates Elasticsearch index templates instead of indices, requiring additional permissions (e.g., X‑Pack) and potentially breaking existing deployments.
- Feature: Added Elasticsearch version configuration and ES 7 support, Zipkin Protobuf over HTTP, hot‑reload of UI config, Grafana dashboard and alerts, Cassandra compression flags, client TLS auth for gRPC reporter, and configurable Kafka...
- Bugfix/Minor: Fixed gRPC over cmux, Badger merge‑join and duplicate‑span issues, added CA certificates to the agent image, improved Windows directory handling, and corrected TTL and regex handling.