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+## v1.25.0 / 2026-03-15
+
+First release after the move to the prometheus-community
+
+> [!CAUTION]
+> [**BREAKINGCHANGE**] Rewrite BGP probes to use Prometheus state sets instead of numeric values for FortiOS 7.6 (#366)
+> this one will **REPLACE** the exisisting `fortigate_bgp_neighbor_ipv(4|6)_info` metric to a stateset `fortigate_bgp_neighbor_ipv(4|6)_state` impacting cardinality by +17 per bgp neighbor
+
+> [!IMPORTANT]
+> [CHANGE] Rewrite SDN Connector Status probe to use Prometheus state sets (#368)
+> this one will **ADD** a stateset `fortigate_system_sdn_connector_state` impacing cardinality by +5 per sdn connector. 
+> 
+> **We are planning to deprecate `fortigate_system_sdn_connector_status` in a future release**
+
+- [CHANGE] Rename internal version package (#375)
+- [CHANGE] Rename internal HTTP client package (#371)
+- [CHANGE] Update project license (#309); add missing license description (#376)
+- [CHANGE] Transfer project to Prometheus Community; update CI/CD (#312, #314, #341, #344)
+- [CHANGE] Update maintainers list and remove archive notice from README (#372)
+- [CHANGE] Refactor README for improved structure and clarity (#349)
+- [FEATURE] Add System HA Peer probe (#347)
+- [FEATURE] Add System Performance Status probe (#336)
+- [FEATURE] Add DNS Latency probe (#334)
+- [FEATURE] Add VDOM Resources probe (#338)
+- [FEATURE] Add Interface Transceivers probe for FortiOS 7.4+ (#332)
+- [FEATURE] Add System NTP Status probe (#335)
+- [FEATURE] Add Sensor Info probe for FortiOS 7.4+ (#331)
+- [FEATURE] Add Central Management Status probe (#337)
+- [FEATURE] Add System Global Location probe (#363)
+- [FEATURE] Add FortiOS 7.6 support for system status probe (#367)
+- [BUGFIX] Fix managed-switch API endpoint for updated FortiOS API (#324)
+- [ENHANCEMENT] Enable additional golangci-lint checks (#346)
+- [DEPENDENCY] Bump `golang.org/x/crypto` from 0.36.0 to 0.45.0 (#374)
+- [DEPENDENCY] Bump `github.com/prometheus/client_golang` (#339)
+- [DEPENDENCY] Bump `github.com/google/go-jsonnet` from 0.20.0 to 0.21.0 (#325)
+- [DEPENDENCY] Bump GitHub Actions dependencies (#326, #330, #352, #353, #356, #357, #360, #361, #369)
+
+## v1.24.1 / 2024-01-08
+
+Previous release.
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+v1.25.0