- Added multiple new integration capabilities, including kube api version tagging, cluster tagger support, OTLP APM compatibility, AWS Lambda telemetry API metrics, process context extraction, and custom resource collection for the orchest...
- Introduced security hardening for the secret backend command with mandatory SHA256 verification, stricter config file permissions, and upgraded wheel packages for Python 2 and 3.
- Removed legacy Windows agent commands (install service and remove service), and fixed numerous bugs across APM, OTLP ingest, Windows NPM driver, Kubernetes event handling, and other components.
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Auto‑enable logon duration when infrastructure mode end‑user device is set, still overridable via config.
Fixed Windows Agent install/upgrade where DDAGENTUSER arguments were overridden by stale registry or service account values.
Enable automatic multi‑line log detection by default; can be disabled via logs.config.auto_multi_line_detection or the corresponding env var.