Release v0.28.0

[jesusvazquez]

0.28.0 / 2025-12-04

BREAKING CHANGES:

• The --log.prober flag behavior has changed. The scrape probe logger is now an independent logger. Please review the README.md and adjust configurations as needed. feat: de-couple --log.prober to be an independent logger #1461
• Log leveling has been improved for several prober modules. Changes include logging errors at ERROR level instead of INFO, and adjusting many prober logs from INFO to DEBUG level. To see more detailed probe logs, set --log.prober=debug. feat: de-couple --log.prober to be an independent logger #1461

Changes:

• [CHANGE] Make default HTTP User-Agent compliant with RFC9110 (now Blackbox-Exporter/<version>) Make default HTTP User-Agent compliant with RFC9110 #1446
• [CHANGE] Config is not reloaded if the file content didn't change when using all reload methods Support reload config automatically #1464
• [FEATURE] Support HTTP/3 (QUIC) prober Enabling HTTP/3.0 detection for Prober Extender (QUIC) #1425
• [FEATURE] Add support for configuring gRPC metadata in gRPC prober Add support for configuring gRPC metadata #956
• [FEATURE] Implement byte matching in TCP query responses feat: Implement byte matching in TCP query responses #1441
• [FEATURE] Add a new type of probe using unix domain sockets prober: added unix socket probes #1480
• [FEATURE] Support config reload automatically - feature flag config.enable-auto-reload, config.auto-reload-interval Support reload config automatically #1464
• [BUGFIX] Fix retrieving probe logs by target name when probed by multiple modules Fix retrieving probe logs by target name when probed by multiple modules #1257
• [BUGFIX] Fix error handling in auto-reload config case Fix error handling in auto-reload config case #1478
• [BUGFIX] Fix debug param log output work regardless of log level fix: make debug param log output work regardless of log level #1438

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