v1.97.5

Released at 2024-06-07

v1.97.x is a line of LTS releases. It contains important up-to-date bugfixes for VictoriaMetrics enterprise.
All these fixes are also included in the latest community release.
The v1.97.x line will be supported for at least 12 months since v1.97.0 release

• SECURITY: upgrade Go builder from Go1.22.2 to Go1.22.4. See the list of issues addressed in Go1.22.3 and Go1.22.4.

• SECURITY: upgrade base docker image (Alpine) from 3.19.1 to 3.20.0. See alpine 3.20.0 release notes.

• BUGFIX: vmui: fix calendar display when UTC+00:00 timezone is set. See this issue.

• BUGFIX: vmui: remove redundant requests on the Explore Cardinality page. See this issue.

• BUGFIX: vmui: fix handling of URL params for browser history navigation (back and forward buttons). See this issue and this comment.

• BUGFIX: vmagent: skip empty data blocks before sending to the remote write destination. Thanks to @viperstars for the pull request.

• BUGFIX: properly estimate the needed memory for query execution if it has the format aggr_func(rollup_func[d] (for example, sum(rate(request_duration_seconds_bucket[5m]))). This should allow performing aggregations over bigger number of time series when VictoriaMetrics runs in environments with small amounts of available memory. The issue has been introduced in this commit in v1.83.0.

• BUGFIX: Single-node VictoriaMetrics and vmstorage in VictoriaMetrics cluster: correctly apply -inmemoryDataFlushInterval when it's set to minimum supported value 1s.

• BUGFIX: vmauth: properly release memory used for metrics during config reload. See this issue.

• BUGFIX: Single-node VictoriaMetrics and vmselect in VictoriaMetrics cluster: filter deleted label names and values from /api/v1/labels and /api/v1/label/.../values responses when match[] filter matches small number of time series. The issue was introduced v1.81.0.

• BUGFIX: vmalert: fix misleading error logs in vmalert's stdout when unsupported HTTP path is requested.

• BUGFIX: retry files delete attempts on vXFS file system for EEXIST error type. See the related issue. Thanks to @pludov for the pull request.