Prepare release 0.63.0

[cristiangreco]

0.63.0 / 2025-09-23

Important news and breaking changes

• NOTE: As of Prometheus 3.0, UTF-8 strings are valid for metric names and label names. However, for backward compatibility, this release of YACE still uses the old, stricter legacy validation scheme. UTF-8 validation will be enabled in a feature version of YACE, thus requiring that your remote destination is compatible with UTF-8 support.

• BREAKING CHANGE: the AWS SDK v2 is now the default in YACE. Use the flag aws-sdk-v1 to switch back to SDK v2. Flag aws-sdk-v2 has been removed.

• NEW FEATURE: exportAllDataPoints, enables the inclusion of past metric data points from the CloudWatch response if available.

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• [CHANGE] Make aws sdk v2 the default choice by @cristiangreco
• [FEATURE] Support history data export by @woehrl01
• [FEATURE] Add AWS/Transfer as available service by @thepalbi
• [FEATURE] Add auto-discovery for Directory Services(MicrosoftAD) by @RuslanMustaev
• [FEATURE] Add support for Redshift-Serverless by @nickbazinet
• [FEATURE] Add db connections avg panel to RDS dashboard by @yduartep
• [FEATURE] Add example for lambda_edge by @tyagian
• [FEATURE] sagemaker: additional InferenceComponent support by @tristanburgess
• [ENHANCEMENT] Update Go version by @SuperQ
• [ENHANCEMENT] Use Prometheus common version library by @SuperQ
• [ENHANCEMENT] Update container repositories by @SuperQ
• [ENHANCEMENT] Speed up build metric name by @jeschkies
• [ENHANCEMENT] Add guard to hot logging location in associator by @thepalbi
• [ENHANCEMENT] Update resource association logic to try both with and without dimension fixes by @tristanburgess
• [ENHANCEMENT] Change discovery runtime model field from Type -> Namespace by @kgeckhart
• [BUGFIX] Fix CachingFactory concurrent usage issues by @andriikushch
• [BUGFIX] Correctly run tests in CI and fix failing tests by @jeschkies
• [BUGFIX] Fix doc about non-existing debug flag by @zipkid
• [BUGFIX] Update URL to Helm Chart in docs by @koralowiec
• [BUGFIX] Add missing license header to associator_logging_test.go by @cristiangreco
• [BUGFIX] Dashboards: replace scrape_job label with job by @yduartep
• [BUGFIX] RDS dashboard: use average for cpu utilization to align with AWS best practices by @yduartep

[cristiangreco]

Will merge it tomorrow

[SuperQ]

I'm wondering if we should make this a feature flag so people can opt-in first.

[cristiangreco]

Yes good point. I'll use less definitive words here and we can have a feature flag in the next release.

[SuperQ]

Question about our support policy for UTF-8. Otherwise LGTM.