Our focus for this release was on improvement of four current features: data retention, alerting, the pipeline processor, and the collector sidecar. We’ve also fixed bugs along the way and
It is a feature-complete release that brings us closer to GA, pending no major issues. We could continue to use your help by providing feedback for this release candidate.
This release includes many bug-fixes and improvements thanks to the feedback from our users! We highly recommend that you upgrade if you are currently using 2.1.2.