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+pr: 1728
+url: https://github.com/llm-d/llm-d-router/pull/1728
+author: shmuelk
+date: 2026-06-25
+---
+- The deprecated dayaLayer feature gate has been removed. It has not been needed since llm-d-router 0.8.0 - Feature gates can now be disabled in the featureGates section of the configuration file, with the syntax gate=false