- Breaking change: OpenResty upgraded to 1.9.7.3 with NGINX security fixes (CVE‑2016‑0742/0746/0747), requiring updates to the nginx config.
- New features: Runscope monitoring plugin, Datadog response.size metric, async counter increment and continue‑on‑error options for rate limiting, and CLI permission check for NGINX directory.
- Multiple bugfixes: OAuth2 redirect handling, PUT support for /auth2 tokens, improved error messages, IP restriction reload without restart, native ngx.ssl usage, ACL invalidation, Serf log storage, and consumer‑only plugin execution.