A long-term support release with security-related dependency updates, PromQL changes, new APIs and configuration controls, and bug fixes. It also replaces a shipped license artifact and includes performance improvements.
Action needed (2)
securitycriticalThe
sanitize-htmldependency updateThe UI updates
sanitize-htmlto address a cross-site scripting vulnerability, identified as CVE-2026-44990.breakingThe third-party license artifact
Third-party npm dependency licenses are embedded in the Prometheus binary and served at
/assets/third-party-licenses.. This replaces thetxt npm_licenses.archive previously shipped in release tarballs and container images.tar. bz2
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securitymediumRedirect credential forwarding
Applies if you use scraping, remote read/write, alerting, or service discovery.
Credentials, including the
Authorizationheader, basic authentication, bearer tokens, OAuth2 credentials, and configured headers, are no longer forwarded when following a redirect to a different host. The behavior ships viaprometheus/commonv0.69.0 and addresses CVE-2025-4673 and CVE-2023-45289.breakingPromQL duration-expression function names
Applies if you enable
experimental-duration-exprand usemin()andmax().The experimental PromQL duration-expression functions
min()andmax()are renamed tomin_of()andmax_of()to distinguish them from theminandmaxaggregate operators.