- Upgrade Go builder to 1.21.0 and base Alpine image to 3.18.3 for security hardening.
- Fix numerous bugs across vmselect, vminsert, vmagent, vmauth, vmalert and vmctl, including timestamp alignment, label decoding, proxy validation, connection cleanup, relabel filters, shutdown panics, and query error handling.
- Improve metric timestamp handling and datasource query parameters, and ensure proper empty responses for API calls.