- Minimum supported Erlang version upgraded to 27.0; Erlang/OTP 26 is now unsupported, causing nodes on older Erlang to fail to start (breaking change).
- Extensive bug fixes across core server, CLI tools, and many plugins (quorum queues, dead‑lettering, tracing, logging noise, permission checks, etc.).
- New enhancements include cryptographically secure password salts, leadership‑transfer commands for queues/streams, configurable HTTP response headers, and various plugin improvements (shovel, federation, MQTT, STOMP, LDAP, etc.).