- Introduce stricter enforcement of `search.maxUniqueTimeseries` limits with automatic calculation and cross‑component validation, which may reject expensive queries (breaking change).
- Add many new capabilities: exponential OTLP histograms, default disable of InfluxDB stream mode, HTTP/2 Kubernetes discovery, multi‑document YAML rules for vmalert, array‑type scope claim parsing in vmgateway, query cancellation and play...
- Fix numerous bugs across the suite, including a vmgateway panic, vmui rendering overflow, vmctl metric tags, vmalert health‑check interval, vmagent duration unit handling, replication factor application, vmselect multi‑level responses, a...