- Added nightly Docker image (synadia/nats-server:nightly) and embedded build SHA in Goreleaser releases.
- Introduced a hard‑delete option for stored JWTs and exposed server and remote route names via the /routez endpoint.
- Implemented many JetStream, Raft and general bug fixes and performance improvements, reducing latency variance, memory pressure, race conditions and preventing panics.
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Added Leafnodes support with a configurable dial timeout option for high‑latency links
Upgrade to Go 1.25.12 and bump critical dependencies (klauspost/compress v1.19.2, golang.org/x/crypto v0.55.0).
Decoupled Raft transport and increased disk concurrency (now configurable) with several JetStream performance and memory optimizations;