- - Drop support for Erlang/OTP 20.3 and require RabbitMQ upgrade before moving to Erlang 21+ to avoid CLI incompatibilities.
- - Core server and CLI bug fixes: lighter one‑off Erlang VM starts and rabbitmqctl await‑startup error resolved.
- - Management and MQTT improvements: HTTP API import fix, proactive FD warnings, metric aggregation optimizations, and higher MQTT throughput with reduced CPU usage (QoS‑2 messages now downgraded to QoS‑1).