- Breaking removal of TChannel communication and ports, with CLI flags normalized and old address flags deprecated
- Added extensive OpenTelemetry support: new storage plugins, ingester, collector, and exporters for gRPC, Kafka, Jaeger, Elasticsearch, and Cassandra, plus Docker image updates
- Implemented multiple bug fixes and minor improvements such as service indexing fixes, build info inclusion, sampling configuration enhancements, zipkin receiver addition, and dependency upgrades