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+## Kong
+
+
+### Performance
+#### Plugin
+
+- **Opentelemetry**: increase queue max batch size to 200
+ [#12542](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/12542)
+ [KAG-3173](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/KAG-3173)
+
+
+
+### Dependencies
+#### Core
+
+- Bumped lua-resty-openssl to 1.2.1
+ [#12669](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/12669)
+
+
+### Features
+#### Configuration
+
+- now TLSv1.1 and lower is by default disabled in OpenSSL 3.x
+ [#12556](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/12556)
+ [KAG-3259](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/KAG-3259)
+
+### Fixes
+#### Configuration
+
+- Fixed default value in kong.conf.default documentation from 1000 to 10000
+for upstream_keepalive_max_requests option.
+ [#12648](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/12648)
+ [KAG-3360](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/KAG-3360)
+
+- Set security level of gRPC's TLS to 0 when ssl_cipher_suite is set to old
+ [#12616](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/12616)
+
+#### Core
+
+- Fix the missing router section for the output of the request-debugging
+ [#12649](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/12649)
+ [KAG-3438](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/KAG-3438)
+
+- revert the hard-coded limitation of the ngx.read_body() API in OpenResty upstreams' new versions when downstream connections are in HTTP/2 or HTTP/3 stream modes.
+ [#12666](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/12666)
+ [FTI-5766](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/FTI-5766) [FTI-5795](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/FTI-5795)
+#### Default
+
+- Fix a bug where the ulimit setting (open files) is low Kong will fail to start as the lua-resty-timer-ng exhausts the available worker_connections. Decrease the concurrency range of the lua-resty-timer-ng library from [512, 2048] to [256, 1024] to fix this bug.
+ [#12608](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/12608)
+ [KAG-3779](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/KAG-3779) [FTI-5780](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/FTI-5780)
+## Kong-Manager
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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