Prometheus - v2.45.0-rc.0

This release is a LTS (Long-Term Support) release of Prometheus and will
receive security, documentation and bugfix patches for at least 12 months.
Please read more about our LTS release cycle at
https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/release-cycle/.

• [FEATURE] API: New limit parameter to limit the number of items returned by /api/v1/status/tsdb endpoint. #12336
• [FEATURE] Config: Add limits to global config. #12126
• [FEATURE] Consul SD: Added support for path_prefix. #12372
• [FEATURE] Native histograms: Add option to scrape both classic and native histograms. #12350
• [FEATURE] Native histograms: Added support for two more arithmetic operators avg_over_time and sum_over_time. #12262
• [FEATURE] Promtool: When providing the block id, only one block will be loaded and analyzed. #12031
• [FEATURE] Remote-write: New Azure ad configuration to support remote writing directly to Azure Monitor workspace. #11944
• [FEATURE] TSDB: Samples per chunk are now configurable with flag storage.tsdb.samples-per-chunk. By default set to its former value 120. #12055
• [ENHANCEMENT] API: Improving Performance on the API Gzip Handler. #12363
• [ENHANCEMENT] Native histograms: bucket size can now be limited to avoid scrape fails. #12254
• [ENHANCEMENT] TSDB: Dropped series are now deleted from the WAL sooner. #12297
• [BUGFIX] Native histograms: ChunkSeries iterator now checks if a new sample can be appended to the open chunk. #12185
• [BUGFIX] Native histograms: Fix Histogram Appender Appendable() segfault. #12357
• [BUGFIX] Native histograms: Fix setting reset header to gauge histograms in seriesToChunkEncoder. #12329
• [BUGFIX] TSDB: Tombstone intervals are not modified after Get() call. #12245
• [BUGFIX] TSDB: Use path/filepath to set the WAL directory. #12349