- Breaking: removed numerous deprecated flags (TLS, query, CLI, health check, Cassandra) and introduced renamed flags across components.
- Feature: added TLS support for gRPC/HTTP endpoints, Kafka SASL/PLAIN auth, UI JavaScript configuration, Elasticsearch ILM, status command, and official images on quay.io.
- Bugfix/Minor: fixed Windows cert pool handling, XSS issue, collector panic, added metrics, cache TTL exposure, and other stability improvements.