- Introduces numerous features: split Docker provider, weighted server load balancing, gRPC health checks, stable HTTP/3, expanded Gateway API support (cross‑namespace refs, HostSNIRegexp, upgrade to v1.0.0) and full OpenTelemetry tracing/...
- Contains breaking changes and deprecations: removal of Marathon and Rancher v1 providers, drop of InfluxDB v1 middleware, removal of networking.k8s.io/v1beta1 API, disabling content‑type auto‑detection, and renaming IPWhiteList to IPAllo...
- Enhances observability and logging with static config hints, a new logger, plugin API retry logic, DogStatsD over Unix socket, and TLS improvements (SPIFFE mTLS, Tailscale resolver).