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The license_enforcement plugin no longer rate-limits traffic based on the transactions-per-second (TPS) claim in a router's license. Previously, requests exceeding the Free plan's TPS threshold were rejected with a 503 and a ROUTER_FREE_PLAN_RATE_LIMIT_REACHED GraphQL error. This enforcement is removed outright, with no replacement rate-limiting mechanism in the plugin.


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Product's view is that TPS rate limiting on the Free plan inhibits
migrations off Gateway, so it's removed outright rather than replaced
with an alternate mechanism. Also drops the now-unused apollo-qos and
apollo-errors dependencies.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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+ graphos/routing/(latest)/upgrade/from-router-v2.mdx
* graphos/routing/(latest)/configuration/yaml.mdx
* graphos/routing/(latest)/customization/native-plugins.mdx
* graphos/routing/(latest)/customization/coprocessor/index.mdx
* graphos/routing/(latest)/customization/rhai/index.mdx
* graphos/routing/(latest)/observability/graphos/graphos-reporting.mdx
* graphos/routing/(latest)/observability/router-telemetry-otel/index.mdx
* graphos/routing/(latest)/observability/router-telemetry-otel/apm-guides/datadog/router-instrumentation.mdx
* graphos/routing/(latest)/observability/router-telemetry-otel/apm-guides/datadog/connecting-to-datadog/datadog-agent/datadog-agent-traces.mdx
* graphos/routing/(latest)/observability/router-telemetry-otel/apm-guides/jaeger/jaeger-traces.mdx
* graphos/routing/(latest)/observability/router-telemetry-otel/apm-guides/zipkin/zipkin-traces.mdx
* graphos/routing/(latest)/observability/router-telemetry-otel/enabling-telemetry/conditions.mdx
* graphos/routing/(latest)/observability/router-telemetry-otel/enabling-telemetry/selectors.mdx
* graphos/routing/(latest)/observability/router-telemetry-otel/enabling-telemetry/spans.mdx
* graphos/routing/(latest)/observability/router-telemetry-otel/enabling-telemetry/standard-instruments.mdx
* graphos/routing/(latest)/observability/router-telemetry-otel/telemetry-pipelines/trace-exporters/overview.mdx
* graphos/routing/(latest)/performance/caching/response-caching/faq.mdx
* graphos/routing/(latest)/security/demand-control.mdx
* graphos/routing/(latest)/self-hosted/containerization/proxy-certificates.mdx
* graphos/routing/(latest)/upgrade/from-router-v1.mdx
* graphos/routing/(latest)/_sidebar.yaml

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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