- - Added a suite of new APIs and modules including DELETE task API, deployment drain/finish for zero‑downtime, adaptive per‑action concurrency, virtual‑thread task executor, extensible payload decoder, dynamic field type inference SPI, cr...
- - Delivered many performance and reliability enhancements such as cluster.blocks.read.auto setting, remote store flush controls, bucket key optimizations, Lucene read speedups, wildcard/regex query improvements, replica promotion on fail...
- - Fixed numerous bugs across queries, aggregations, snapshots, routing, caches, startup, and streaming; updated core dependencies and libraries to address security CVEs (CVE‑2026‑63136, CVE‑2026‑49844) and performed extensive maintenance...