# NATS v2.14.8

> Networking & Messaging · 2026-10-09

A maintenance release focused on correctness and performance. It removes a legacy gateway capability and tightens related ingress behavior, alongside fixes across authentication, configuration, routing, and stream handling.

## Action needed
- **[breaking]** The legacy `$GR.` reply prefix reserved on client ingress
  - The legacy `$GR.` reply prefix is now reserved on client ingress. Clients can no longer publish to gateway reply subjects using that prefix.

## Check if affected
- **[breaking]** Removal of the legacy `$GR.` reply prefix
  - Applies if you use servers prior to `v2.1.2`.
  - Support for sending and handling the legacy `$GR.` reply prefix, used by servers prior to `v2.1.2`, has been removed.
- **[breaking]** Remote proxy option validation
  - Applies if you configure remote proxy options and do not specify a proxy URL.
  - Remote proxy options are now rejected when no proxy URL is specified.

## Other recorded changes
- 53 (defect_corrected 39, value_changed 11, added 3)

[Full analysis](https://ratatosk.io/en/releases/nats/v2.14.8)

[Original release notes](https://github.com/nats-io/nats-server/releases/tag/v2.14.8)