- Introduced a new on‑disk storage format with significant performance gains; downgrades only work back to v2.9.22+ to read streams correctly.
- Added many features: new $SYS NATS endpoints, cluster route and leafnode S2 compression, JetStream stream transforms, multi‑subject filtering, replication optimizations, MQTT QoS2 support, and early builds for NetBSD and IBM z/OS.
- Fixed numerous bugs and data races across accounts, leafnodes, JetStream, routing, and profiling components.