- Upgrade base Docker image to Alpine 3.23.3 and Go builder to 1.24.13 (security patches).
- Introduce time‑based manual offset commit for Kafka consumer in vmagent/vmsingle to prevent high commit QPS.
- Fix several cluster bugs: Graphite render timeout now follows query deadline, improve deduplication handling, correct deduplicated sample counting, and properly prettify regex in MetricsQL queries.