* Cut v2.28.0-rc.0
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* Changelog fixup
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* Address review comments
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* Downgrade some features to enhancements
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* Adjust release date to today
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* [ENHANCEMENT] Consul SD: Support reading tokens from file. #8926
* [ENHANCEMENT] Rules: Add a new `.ExternalURL` alert field templating variable, containing the external URL of the Prometheus server. #8878
* [ENHANCEMENT] Scrape: Add experimental `body_size_limit` scrape configuration setting to limit the allowed response body size for target scrapes. #8833#8886
* [ENHANCEMENT] Kubernetes SD: Add ingress class name label for ingress discovery. #8916
* [ENHANCEMENT] UI: Show a startup screen with progress bar when the TSDB is not ready yet. #8662#8908#8909#8946
* [ENHANCEMENT] SD: Add a target creation failure counter `prometheus_target_sync_failed_total` and improve target creation failure handling. #8786
* [ENHANCEMENT] TSDB: Improve validation of exemplar label set length. #8816
* [ENHANCEMENT] TSDB: Add a `prometheus_tsdb_clean_start` metric that indicates whether a TSDB lockfile from a previous run still existed upon startup. #8824
* [BUGFIX] UI: In the experimental PromQL editor, fix autocompletion and parsing for special float values and improve series metadata fetching. #8856
* [BUGFIX] TSDB: When merging chunks, split resulting chunks if they would contain more than the maximum of 120 samples. #8582
* [BUGFIX] SD: Fix the computation of the `prometheus_sd_discovered_targets` metric when using multiple service discoveries. #8828
## 2.27.1 / 2021-05-18
This release contains a bug fix for a security issue in the API endpoint. An