This release contains 8 PRs from 2 authors. Thank you!

Changelog

2.8.0-rc.1

Grafana Mimir

• [ENHANCEMENT] Improved memory limit on the in-memory cache used for regular expression matchers. #4751
• [ENHANCEMENT] Go: update to 1.20.3. #4773
• [BUGFIX] Packaging: fix preremove script preventing upgrades. #4801

All changes in this release: mimir-2.8.0-rc.0...mimir-2.8.0-rc.1