- Security: upgraded Go builder to 1.22.5 and base Alpine Docker image to 3.20.1.
- Bugfixes: resolved panics in vmagent (Kafka topics), corrected memory metric calculations, fixed multiple vmalert UI and authentication issues, added retentionPeriod validation, and repaired various vmui UI bugs.
- Bugfixes: improved MetricsQL histogram quantile calculations and prevented hangs in vmalert tool when processing empty rule groups.