v1.8.0rc2

What's Changed

• feat(ingestion/montecarlo): add Monte Carlo connector by @alokr-dhub in #17685
• fix(openlineage): assign domains to entities from the REST endpoint by @yjyspree in #19519
• refactor(ui): alchemy-components convergence by @v-tarasevich-blitz-brain in #19575
• refactor(ui): conf convergence by @v-tarasevich-blitz-brain in #19595
• refactor(ui): converge app/sharedV2 with the SaaS frontend by @v-tarasevich-blitz-brain in #19597
• refactor(ui): upstream SaaS changes in app/shared to reduce OSS/SaaS drift by @v-tarasevich-blitz-brain in #19617
• refactor(web-react): upstream shared dataviz number and scale helpers by @v-tarasevich-blitz-brain in #19618
• feat(ingest): resolve lineage URN casing against any stored casing by @aviraj-gour in #18938
• feat(codeblocks): comparative view of codeblocks by @annadoesdesign in #19609
• fix(ingest/deps): raise cryptography and pyOpenSSL floors (CVE-2026-69247, CVE-2026-27459) by @rob-1019 in #19385
• feat(ui): adding toggle and feature flags and fixing domains and glossary icons by @annadoesdesign in #19623
• feat(gms): pin GraphQL worker pool to 8-core defaults by @david-leifker in #19622
• fix(metrics): remove dead Kafka queue-time percentile config by @david-leifker in #19549
• fix(web): return absolute encoded URLs for uploaded file links by @ani-malgari in #19611
• docs(ontology): Add Ontology feature guide by @asikowitz in #19604
• fix(gms): stop implicit IRSA STS providers on AWS SDK client builders by @david-leifker in #19624
• docs(data-product): data product marketplace and hierarchy updates by @manuelawei8 in #19614
• feat(ingest/bigquery): pure-function partition utils — constants/types/date_utils/filter_builder [4/9] by @acrylJonny in #19481
• docs(incidents): correct stale arg docstrings on five entity blocks by @Danishlynx in #19537
• fix(ingestion/unity): detect Databricks redacted query text and warn by @alfiyas-datahub in #19351
• ci(release): Slack-notify docker-unified start on GitHub release publish by @anshbansal in #19640

Full Changelog: v1.8.0rc1...v1.8.0rc2