manually backported changes from #6163

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -10,15 +10,16 @@ Here is the list with the changes that were produced since the previous release.
 * [5848](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/5848) **arcosx**: Add Baidu AI Cloud as a storage backend choice.
 * [6410](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/6410) **MichelHollands**: Add support for per tenant delete API access enabling.
 * [5879](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/5879) **MichelHollands**: Remove lines matching delete request expression when using "filter-and-delete" deletion mode.
-* [5984](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/5984) **dannykopping** and **salvacorts**: Querier: prevent unnecessary calls to ingesters.
-* [5971](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/5971) **kavirajk**: Record statistics about metadata queries such as labels and series queries in `metrics.go` as well
-* [6136](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/6136) **periklis**: Add support for alertmanager header authorization
+* [5984](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/5984) **dannykopping** and **salvacorts**: Improve query performance by preventing unnecessary querying of ingesters when the query data is old enough to be in object storage.
+* [5971](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/5971) **kavirajk**: Extend the `metrics.go` recording of statistics about metadata queries to include labels and series queries.
+* [6136](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/6136) **periklis**: Add support for alertmanager header authorization.
+* [6163](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/6163) **jburnham**: LogQL: Add a `default` sprig template function in LogQL label/line formatter.
 
 ##### Fixes
 * [6152](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/6152) **slim-bean**: Fixes unbounded ingester memory growth when live tailing under specific circumstances.
 * [5685](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/5685) **chaudum**: Fix bug in push request parser that allowed users to send arbitrary non-string data as "log line".
 * [5799](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/5799) **cyriltovena** Fix deduping issues when multiple entries with the same timestamp exist. !hide or not hide (bugfix Loki)
-* [5888](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/5888) **Papawy** Fix common config net interface name overwritten by ring common config
+* [5888](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/5888) **Papawy** Fix common configuration block net interface name when overwritten by ring common configuration.
 
 ##### Changes
 * [6361](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/6361) **chaudum**: Sum values in unwrapped rate aggregation instead of treating them as counter.
@@ -35,11 +36,11 @@ Here is the list with the changes that were produced since the previous release.
 
 ##### Enhancements
 * [5715](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/5715) **chaudum**: Allow promtail to push RFC5424 formatted syslog messages
-* [6105](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/6105) **rutgerke** Export metrics for the promtail journal target
-* [5943](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/5943) **tpaschalis**: Add support for exclusion patterns in Promtail's static_config
+* [6105](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/6105) **rutgerke** Export metrics for the Promtail journal target.
+* [5943](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/5943) **tpaschalis**: Add configuration support for excluding configuration files when instantiating Promtail.
 * [5790](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/5790) **chaudum**: Add UDP support for Promtail's syslog target.
-* [6102](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/6102) **timchenko-a**: Add multi-tenancy support to lambda-promtail
-* [6099](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/6099/files) **cstyan**: Drop lines with malformed JSON in Promtail JSON pipeline stage
+* [6102](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/6102) **timchenko-a**: Add multi-tenancy support to lambda-promtail.
+* [6099](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/6099) **cstyan**: Drop lines with malformed JSON in Promtail JSON pipeline stage.
 ##### Fixes
 * [6034](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/6034) **DylanGuedes**: Promtail: Fix symlink tailing behavior.
 ##### Changes