This release primarily addresses security vulnerabilities affecting Go versions prior to Go 1.25.6 and Go 1.24.12 (CVE-2025-61728, CVE-2025-61726, CVE-2025-68121, CVE-2025-61731, CVE-2025-68119). It also includes performance improvements to the proxy plugin via multiplexed connections, along with various documentation updates. Brought to You By Alex Massy Shiv Tyagi Ville Vesilehto Yong Tang Noteworthy Changes plugin/proxy: Use mutex-based connection pool (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/7790)