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# May 21, 2025

Release 2.5.0 shipped on May 21, 2025.

## Features

### Alerts

- Maintenance mode: you can create maintenance mode by alert tags, alert types or for selected alerts. Notification won’t be sent during the maintenance window for those alerts.
- Trace pipeline: Option to exclude trace collection for specific services. You can select from which services they want to exclude data collection.
- It can be done from Settings → Pipeline → Traces

### Quickwit for APM

- Data is now coming from quickwit for all APM screens to make data loading faster.

### OpsAI

- Fix the issues with OpsAI and GitHub integration. Available for selected accounts on request.

## Improvements

- Fixed the issue of alert notification on Slack private channel.
- Fixed the issues of filters (for Kubernetes containers, pods, namespace) for log monitoring.
- Performance improvement for synthetic tests.
- Performance optimization in status page listing from 16secs to 300ms.

### RUM

- Added nextjs support for sourcemap.
- Webvitals metric improvement.

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