- Fixed multiple core bugs including autoheal timeout, GC scheduling, corrupted vhost recovery, queue replica election handling, and syslog client startup.
- Added enhancements such as graceful shutdown on SIGTERM/SIGQUIT, ignoring SIGUSR1/SIGUSR2, debug‑level logging for proxy protocol errors, a new POST /login endpoint for management UI, and reduced log noise for missing handle.exe warnings.
- Updated compatibility: dropped support for Erlang/OTP 20.3 and requires RabbitMQ upgrade before moving to Erlang 21+, making this a breaking change for upgrade paths.