8.24.7 / 2026-10-23

• fix: avoid walking into inherited properties like toString when hydrating documents, setting dotted paths, and merging updates
• fix: only use own properties when looking up discriminators by key
• fix(schema): disallow setting special properties via virtual()
• fix(query): respect connection-level sanitizeFilter in queries
• fix(query): disallow special properties like __proto__ as paths in where() and mod()
• fix(deps): upgrade mquery -> 5.0.1 to avoid prototype pollution with query helpers like gt() and in()