- Security: upgraded Go builder to 1.26.5.
- Feature: added MetricsQL fill modifiers, Unix‑domain‑socket scraping, per‑target max scrape size, maxBackfillAge flag, improved HTTP‑SD discovery, and auto‑preload of relabel configs.
- Bugfix: fixed metadata handling, S3 retry, vmselect limits, vmagent race conditions and persistent‑queue issues, UI formatting bugs, and vmauth timeout response.