- Adds POSIX-compatible remote storage support, model‑based rerankers, and dynamic SegCore parameter updates without restart.
- Improves performance and stability with query optimizations, configurable write rate limits, better memory estimation, and robust etcd rewatch handling.
- Introduces security hardening by hiding sensitive config items, adds unified gRPC latency metrics, and includes numerous bug fixes for OOM, deadlocks, and node recovery.