- Upgrade Go builder to 1.23.1 and Alpine base image to 3.20.3 for security hardening.
- Fix numerous bugs across vmagent, vmgateway, cluster nodes, vmalert and MetricsQL, including service discovery, Kafka handling, deduplication, Windows startup, stale NaN ingestion, and notification logic.
- Increase default loggerMaxArgLen from 1000 to 5000 to improve error visibility.