feat(github-release): update release prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator ( v0.87.1 ➔ v0.88.0 )

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Update	Change
prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator	minor	v0.87.1 → v0.88.0

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Release Notes

prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator (prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator)

v0.88.0: 0.88.0 / 2026-01-09

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• [CHANGE] Use narrower selectors for StatefulSet informers in Alertmanager and ThanosRuler controllers. It is recommended to upgrade from v0.85.0 (at least). #​8246
• [CHANGE] Reject EC2/Lightsail SD for Prometheus >= 3.8.0 in ScrapeConfig CRD. #​8175
• [FEATURE] Add podManagementPolicy field to Prometheus, PrometheusAgent, Alertmanager and ThanosRuler CRDs. #​8119
• [FEATURE] Add updateStrategy field to Prometheus, PrometheusAgent, Alertmanager and ThanosRuler CRDs. #​8202
• [FEATURE] Add scrapeNativeHistograms field to Prometheus, PrometheusAgent, ServiceMonitor, PodMonitor, Probe and ScrapeConfig CRDs. #​8102
• [FEATURE] Add scope field to AzureAD remote write configuration. #​8240
• [FEATURE] Add workloadIdentity field to AzureAD remote write configuration. #​7998
• [FEATURE] Add support for PrometheusRule fields groupLabels and queryOffset in ThanosRuler. #​8137
• [FEATURE] Add slackAppToken and slackAppUrl fields to Alertmanager global config for Slack App support. #​8238
• [FEATURE] Add incident.io receiver support to Alertmanager config secret. #​8190 #​8245 #​8228
• [FEATURE] Add Mattermost receiver support to Alertmanager config secret. #​8188
• [FEATURE] Add apiType field to Jira receiver in Alertmanager config secret. #​8218
• [FEATURE] Add timeout field to PagerDuty receiver in AlertmanagerConfig CRD. #​8162
• [FEATURE] Add timeout field to Slack receiver in AlertmanagerConfig CRD. #​8161
• [ENHANCEMENT] Use minReadySeconds to set --dispatch.start-delay in Alertmanager. #​8177 #​8201
• [ENHANCEMENT] Expose native histograms in operator metrics. #​8194
• [ENHANCEMENT] Add NoSelectedResources reason to status conditions. #​8124
• [ENHANCEMENT] Add enableHttp2 and followRedirects fields to HTTP configuration for Probe CRD. #​8112
• [ENHANCEMENT] Add CEL validations for DaemonSet mode in PrometheusAgent CRD (requires the PrometheusAgentDaemonSetFeature featuregate). #​7881
• [ENHANCEMENT] Improve validation for Pushover, PagerDuty and VictorOps receivers in AlertmanagerConfig CRD. #​8239 #​8113 #​8220
• [ENHANCEMENT] Add apiURL validation for WeChat, OpsGenie and Telegram receivers in AlertmanagerConfig CRD. #​8196 #​8206 #​8199
• [ENHANCEMENT] Validate URL fields in AlertmanagerConfig receivers (MSTeams, Webhook). #​8231 #​8125
• [ENHANCEMENT] Validate URL fields in Alertmanager configuration secret (WeChat, Telegram, Pushover receivers). #​7977 #​8233 #​8232

New Contributors

• @​MichalTomczakSE made their first contribution in #​8144
• @​kartikangiras made their first contribution in #​8098
• @​varundeepsaini made their first contribution in #​8207
• @​tomlin7 made their first contribution in #​8209
• @​fluktuid made their first contribution in #​8248

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