- Added /influx/health endpoint, new backoff/retry flags for vmctl and vmagent, and multiple command‑line options (external.label, notifier.headers, remoteWrite retry flags, vmselect buffer size, UI search and select‑all columns).
- Implemented exponential backoff for S3 operations, reduced memory usage in vmagent and vmalert, and fixed issues such as proxy auth for HTTPS targets, Azure VM discovery, histogram quantile calculations, and stream aggregation behavior.
- Deprecated the external labels field in the vmalert tool test file; use the external.label flag instead.