- Jaeger v2 released, removing the Jaeger agent from distributions (breaking) and adding OTLP JSON support for Kafka, hotrod integration, TLS and queueing configuration updates (feature).
- Numerous bug fixes and minor improvements: null‑pointer dereference, correct span deduplication ordering, query server handling, lint rule enablements, UI migration from Yarn to npm, and CI health‑check enhancements.
- Documentation updates, automatic README publishing to Docker Hub, and refactoring of Elasticsearch/OpenSearch configuration groups.