You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
InternalsArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.242,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
The filter that rejects unsafe characters in labels now also rejects < and > and their fullwidth equivalents, on top of the control characters, brackets, quotes and backslashes it already caught. A separate URL matcher was tightened to stop absorbing angle brackets and the ellipsis character.
Evidence
\uFF3B\uFF3D\uFF02\uFF1C\uFF1E
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.