- Brand‑new web UI replaces the old UI and UTF‑8 support is enabled by default, removing the related feature flags.
- Numerous breaking changes: removal of deprecated feature flags and CLI arguments (auto‑gomaxprocs, auto‑gomemlimit, expand‑external‑labels, etc.), changes to scraping defaults, remote‑write HTTP/2 default, and Kubernetes SD API version r...
- Adds new capabilities such as auto config reload, OTLP UTF‑8 skip option, stable agent mode, exponential interpolation for native histograms, plus many bug‑fixes and performance improvements.