Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
TelemetryArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.247,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
Compressed telemetry requests now get a newline and a random run of 0 to 256 spaces or tabs appended first, so the compressed size no longer reveals the exact payload length. Only on the gzip path.
Evidence
Math.random() < 0.5 ? " " : "\t"
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
