- Security updates: upgraded Go builder to 1.23.1 and Alpine base image to 3.20.3.
- Feature additions: hot‑reload for enterprise license files, flexible vmgateway authentication, new ingestion metrics, UI query requests switched to POST, enhanced dashboards with Go scheduling latency panels, backup manager API, multi‑te...
- Bugfixes: restored .passwordFile whitespace handling, fixed caching, Windows startup crash, stream‑aggregation deduplication and label parsing, plus numerous fixes across vmagent, vmalert, MetricsQL, and other components.