* [CHANGE] promtool: Add new flag `--lint` (enabled by default) for the commands `check rules` and `check config`, resulting in a new exit code (`3`) for linter errors. #10435
* [FEATURE] Support for automatically setting the variable `GOMAXPROCS` to the container CPU limit. Enable with the flag `--enable-feature=auto-gomaxprocs`#10498
* [FEATURE] PromQL: Extend statistics with total and peak number of samples in a query. Additionally, per-step statistics are available with --enable-feature=promql-per-step-stats and using `stats=all` in the query API.
Enable with the flag `--enable-feature=per-step-stats`#10369
* [ENHANCEMENT] Prometheus is built with Go 1.18. #10501
* [ENHANCEMENT] TSDB: more efficient sorting of postings read from WAL at startup. #10500
* [ENHANCEMENT] Azure SD: Add an optional `resource_group` configuration. #10365
* [ENHANCEMENT] Kubernetes SD: Support `discovery.k8s.io/v1``EndpointSlice` (previously only `discovery.k8s.io/v1beta1``EndpointSlice` was supported). #9570
* [BUGFIX] Kubernetes SD: Explicitly include gcp auth from k8s.io. #10516