- Added new backend features: sampling store support, blackhole storage for benchmarking, span adjuster moving OTEL resource attributes, and experimental Jaeger v2 all‑in‑one configuration with primary/archive storage options.
- Improved security posture with a dependency‑policy fix, initial security insights.yml, and added reload interval for OTEL server certificates.
- Enhanced CI/CD pipelines with more linters, Docker image label improvements, and UI version pinned to 1.35.0; also exposed collector ports in Docker images and added product/file version to Windows executables.