- Adds quorum‑queue enhancements: reject‑publish max‑length overflow strategy, consumer priority, and new CLI commands for peeking and memory reclamation.
- Introduces per‑user connection/queue limits, TLS 1.3 enabled by default, auth‑attempt metrics, and definition‑import safety improvements.
- Deprecates boot‑time definition import in the management plugin and drops support for Erlang 21.3; includes numerous bug fixes and dependency upgrades.