- Requires Erlang 26 (up to 27.2.x) and limits community support to contributors or commercial license holders.
- Core and plugin bug fixes (quorum queues, stream consumer, CLI tools, Prometheus, Management) and new health checks for metadata store and virtual‑host deletion protection.
- Enhancements include RabbitMQ admin v2 recommendation, new Consul peer discovery setting, and deprecation of the original HTTP API One True Health Check.