- Breaking change: new internal chunk format limits downgrade options and introduces per‑tenant query scheduling limits affecting parallelism settings.
- Feature additions: multi‑line log support, Windows Event and Google Pub/Sub ingestion in Promtail, write‑ahead log for Loki, and an enhanced JSON parser with selective field extraction.
- Bug fixes and performance improvements: corrected handling of scrape configs without pipeline stages, reduced memory usage on distributors, and numerous LogQL fixes.