- Fixed numerous race conditions and lock handling in the queue system, including releasing unique locks on failures and supporting multiple IDs for `queue:forget`.
- Improved Eloquent ORM reliability and performance: resolved relation bugs (self‑referencing, through, hasOneThrough), optimized foreign key queries, avoided extra model instances in cursor, and fixed N+1 JSON:API includes.
- Added new features: JPEG XL support in the Image API, mime‑type detection for SFTP/FTP disks, strict option for `Rule::numeric()`, and stringable parameters for conditional validation rules.