- Introduced optional experimental support for overlapping TSDB blocks and switched remote write API to use Write Ahead Logging (WAL).
- Enhanced UI (Bootstrap 4 upgrade, metric display limit, state persistence) and query performance, and added new scrape metrics and retention info on the status page.
- Fixed bugs in rule group sorting, Kubernetes service discovery token handling, HTTP client creation errors, and aggregator parameter panics.
2.8.0 / 2019-03-12
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