- Network Path timeout semantics changed to per‑hop with a default of 1000 ms and traceroute now uses UDP port 33434, affecting existing behavior.
- Introduced extensive tagging features: auto‑tag Kubernetes resources via labels/annotations, add custom tags to Cisco SD‑WAN metrics, NPM now emits UDP packets sent/received, and KSM can collect pod metrics from the Kubelet.
- Embedded Python, cURL, and OpenSSL upgraded to address recent CVEs, accompanied by numerous bug fixes across log handling, JMX, eBPF, Windows Process Agent, SNMP V3, and other components.