Prometheus 3.4.0

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PR / issue Type Description
#16207 Change Config: Make setting out-of-order native histograms feature (--enable-feature=ooo-native-histograms) a no-op. Out-of-order native histograms are now always enabled when out_of_order_time_window is greater than zero and --enable-feature=native-histograms is set.
#15850 Feature OTLP translate: Add feature flag for optionally translating OTel explicit bucket histograms into native histograms with custom buckets.
#16441 Feature OTLP translate: Add option to receive OTLP metrics without translating names or attributes.
#16249 Feature PromQL: allow arithmetic operations in durations in PromQL parser.
#16360 Feature OTLP receiver: Add primitive support for ingesting OTLP delta metrics as-is.
#16095 Enhancement PromQL: histogram_fraction for bucket histograms.
#16166 Enhancement TSDB: add prometheus_tsdb_wal_replay_unknown_refs_total and prometheus_tsdb_wbl_replay_unknown_refs_total metrics to track unknown series references during WAL/WBL replay.
#16066 Enhancement Scraping: Add config option for escaping scheme request.
#16226 Enhancement Config: Add global config option for convert_classic_histograms_to_nhcb.
#16254 Enhancement Alerting: make batch size configurable (--alertmanager.notification-batch-size).
#16433 Performance Kubernetes SD: make endpointSlice discovery more efficient.
#16340 Bug fix Config: Fix auto-reload on changes to rule and scrape config files.
#16218 Bug fix Scraping: Skip native histogram series if ingestion is disabled.
#16231 Bug fix TSDB: Handle metadata/tombstones/exemplars for duplicate series during WAL replay.
#16242 Bug fix TSDB: Avoid processing exemplars outside the valid time range during WAL replay.
#16443 Bug fix Promtool: Add feature flags for PromQL features.
#15093 Bug fix Rules: correct logging of alert name & template data.
#16444 Bug fix PromQL: Use arithmetic mean for histogram_stddev and histogram_stdvar .

Reproduced from the official Prometheus 3.4.0 release notes. Last checked 7 Jul 2026, 21:23 UTC.