Welcome to VictoriaMetrics v1.96!

[Denys Holius]

Hello all, 
Welcome to our latest release: VictoriaMetrics v1.96!

This is packed with cool new features and including important security improvements!

Highlights include: 

• New security features:

• upgrade base docker image (Alpine) from 3.18.4 to 3.19.0. See alpine 3.19.0 release notes.

• upgrade Go builder from Go1.21.4 to Go1.21.5. See the list of issues addressed in Go1.21.5.

• vmauth:

• got improved balancing, which means it is now possible to build highly available environments.

• New features in vmselect: 

• allow specifying multiple groups of vmstorage nodes with independent -replicationFactor per each group;

• allow opening vmui and investigating Top queries and Active queries when the vmselect is overloaded with concurrent queries.

• New features in vmagent:

• add support for reading and writing samples via Google PubSub;

• add -remoteWrite.disableOnDiskQueue command-line flag, which can be used for disabling data queueing to disk when the remote storage cannot keep up with the data ingestion rate

• add -enableMultitenantHandlers command-line flag, which allows receiving data via VictoriaMetrics cluster urls at vmagent and converting tenant ids to (vm_account_id, vm_project_id) ; labels before sending the data to the configured -remoteWrite.url.

• New features in vmalert:

• provide /vmalert/api/v1/rule and /api/v1/rule API endpoints to get the rule object in JSON format.

• New features in vmctl:

• allow reversing the migrating order from the newest to the oldest data for vm-native and remote-read modes

And many more additional features in vmui, vmalert-tools, vmagent, MetricsQL, etc. 

See the full features news in the ChangeLog: https://docs.victoriametrics.com/CHANGELOG.html 

Let us know if you have any feedback and feel free to share the news in your own channels!