You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
NetworkArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.257,
ImprovementsSection of the release
New IP and hostname classification logic recognizes cloud metadata hostnames, including metadata.google.internal and instance-data endpoints, along with private, link-local, loopback, NAT64, and 6to4 IPv4-mapped IPv6 ranges, as unsafe destinations. This is used to block outbound requests to cloud metadata services and internal addresses.