- Added new metrics and stats (search latency, thread‑pool wait time, doc status counter, merge stats, configurable merge policy, backpressure, OpenTelemetry exporter, tracing SpanKind) and a Visitor design pattern for QueryBuilder.
- Introduced async blob read support for S3 and encrypted containers, and added options to restrict async durability mode for remote indexes and repository mutations.
- Fixed critical bugs (concurrent search NPE, index‑sorted field compatibility, segment‑replication lock errors, ingest‑processor ignore‑missing handling) and upgraded numerous dependencies.