- Upgraded Go builder to 1.24.1, addressing security fixes.
- Introduced several new features such as zstd compression for metric ingestion, AWS EKS pod identity support, a new search.maxTSDBStatusTopNSeries flag, performance improvements in vmagent and query operators, and UI/dashboard enhancements.
- Fixed a wide range of bugs including panics in stream aggregation and subquery handling, metric renaming typo, memory leaks in vmalert, TLS handling issues, backup manager delays, and other stability fixes.