- Added a pluggable data format engine with Lucene support, dynamic property definitions, tiered storage APIs (WritableWarm, Hot/Warm tiering) and a block‑cache SPI.
- Enhanced the analytics engine: distributed aggregation/join, many new PPL commands/functions (window, datetime, math, crypto, etc.), native Arrow transport, and gRPC aggregation support.
- Implemented native memory admission control, backpressure, workload‑management settings, and deprecated the boolean constructor of FetchSourceContext with warnings.