- Decoupled JetStream Raft transport and increased disk concurrency semaphore to 4096 (configurable via max_concurrent_io) to improve performance and memory handling;
- Fixed several security issues including TLS authentication bypass, JWT validation crashes, and added stricter validation for cluster replicated messages and stream snapshots;
- Implemented numerous bug fixes and optimizations such as faster AVL sequence set operations, reduced subject tracking memory, corrected healthz/varz reporting, monotonic MQTT packet IDs, and consumer/stream handling improvements.