YugabyteDB 2.4 has been released, providing enterprise-grade stability and scalability for mission-critical applications, including support for multi-region deployments, improved performance, and enhanced security features such as database CURSOR, third-party security audit, LDAP integration, audit logging, encryption in transit, data at rest encryption with Thales Vormetric, and Yugabyte Cloud. The new release also includes built-in support for Hasura GraphQL Engine, DBeaver, Apache Spark 3, VMware Tanzu integration, monitoring of SQL queries, and a roadmap for upcoming releases that include core database features, security enhancements, and enterprise features for Yugabyte Platform.