- Implemented multiple LSMKV and startup rebuild performance optimizations, including reduced key comparisons, bloom filter hashing, and single-pass shard loading.
- Fixed a range of bugs across modules such as backup authentication, hybrid rerank handling, Google request validation, cluster read behavior, tokenizer panics, and slow‑log bounds.
- Applied security updates: eMudhra intermediate certificates patch and upgraded to Go 1.26 with dependency bumps to address CVEs.