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Changelog

2.17.6-rc.0

Grafana Mimir

• [BUGFIX] Update to Go v1.25.7 to address CVE-2025-61726. #14243 #14255
• [BUGFIX] Ruler: Add path traversal checks when parsing namespaces and groups, which prevents namespace and group name from containing non-local paths. #14246

All changes in this release: mimir-2.17.5...mimir-2.17.6-rc.0