v3.13.0

• Fixed: Initial Empty cache file handling (formerly reported invalid warning in logs)
• Fixed: Bearer token file loading from config file path when multiple validation config files were used.
• Added: New config option prometheus.disableCache to disable usage of Prometheus query cache.

v3.12.0

• Added: New flag --disable-parallelization to disable parallel execution of validations.

v3.11.0

• Changed: Validations are now executed in parallel to speed up the validation process.
• Changed: Sort the reports fiels, groups, rules by names for a predictable output.

v3.10.0

• ⚠️ Changed: params field of all validators from now on does not allow unknown fields, to avoid typos and mistakes.
• Added: New param negative to all validators that does regexp matching named *MatchesRegexp to invert the matching logic.
  For example with negative: true the alertNameMatchesRegexp validator will check that the alert name does NOT match the regexp.
• Fix: Some params were not loaded correctly from the config file in some validators, this is now fixed.
• Changed: Bump go version to 1.25.4

v3.9.0

• Fixed: JSON and Yaml output format of the promruval validate command.
• Changed: Bump go version to 1.24.1
• Changed: Switch to golangci-lint v2
• ⚠️ Changed: Upgrade Prometheus dependencies to 3.3.1
  • UTF-8 support for label names, rule names, and label_replace(). (enjoy your {"metric.🔥","label^💩"="baz 🤌"})
  • Support for using go duration in PromQL and doing operations on it, e.g. (uptime - time()) > 1h+5m.
• Added: New validation doesNotContainTypos to check for typos in well known terms, see its documentation.
• Added: New parameter asTemplate in the annotationIsValidURL validation.

v3.8.0

• Added: New option onlyIf to the validation rule config allowing to specify conditions that must be met for the rule to be applied. See the docs or examples.
• Fixed: Unified text validation description in running promruval validate and promruval validation-docs -o text
• Fixed: Some minor validations descriptions fixes
• Fixed: In the validation description use Rule instead of All rules for the all rules scope
• Refactor: Improve unmarshaling, validation and defaults for regexp params of validators

v3.7.0

• Added: New validation expressionDoesNotUseLabelsForMetricRegexp
• Added: New validation expressionUsesOnlyAllowedLabelValuesForMetricRegexp

v3.6.2

• Fixed: Invalid internal name of the newExpressionDoesNotUseClassicHistogramBucketOperations validator causing that it wasn't possible to disable the validator

v3.6.1

• Fixed: FIxed the expressionUsesOnlyAllowedLabelsForMetricRegexp validator that might return false positives when used on more complex expressions with vector matching and functions using labels.

v3.6.0

• Added: Configuration file can now be in Jsonnet format if the config file name ends with .jsonnet and it will get automatically evaluated.