- Breaking change: OTEL Collector upgrade makes OTLP receivers bind to localhost only, affecting container networking (workaround: configure Jaeger to listen on 0.0.0.0).
- New features: jaeger ES index cleaner & rollover, adaptive sampling for tracegen, v1‑to‑v2 storage factory converter, Badger v3/v4 upgrade, experimental telemetry struct and default storage config support, metrics factory adapter for OTE...
- Extensive bug fixes, minor improvements, CI enhancements (latest tag for snapshot images, mock generation checks) and UI help text update.