- Added Elasticsearch 8.x support and made ArchiveTrace button auto-configurable; renamed Jaeger v2 binary and published its Docker image.
- Fixed multiple bugs (null handling, Badger sampling lock, Grafana example, metric name normalization) and updated UI placeholder and protobuf dependency removal.
- Enhanced CI pipelines with code coverage, dependency scanning, and hardened GitHub Actions; UI version pinned to 1.36.0.