- Deprecate the retryMaxTime flag and introduce retryMaxInterval as its replacement.
- Add many new features across components, including label limits for scrapes, Kafka producer concurrency, new API endpoints, TLS support for backup snapshots, searchable query stats headers, cache eviction metrics, and proxying notifiers.
- Fix numerous bugs such as UI filter autocomplete, negative increase in MetricsQL, stream aggregation state handling, duplicate vmalert metrics, CSP compliance, token expiration retries for backups, regex search handling, and vmui manifes...