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 * BUGFIX: [VictoriaMetrics cluster](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html): close `vmselect->vmstorage` connections if they were idle for more than 30 seconds. Expose `vm_tcpdialer_conns_idle` metric at `http://vmselect:8481/metrics` with the number of idle connections to `vmstorage`. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2508).
 * BUGFIX: [vmctl](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmctl.html): return non-zero exit code on error. This allows handling `vmctl` errors in shell scripts. Previously `vmctl` was returning 0 exit code on error. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2322).
 * BUGFIX: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): properly show `scrape_timeout` and `scrape_interval` options at `http://vmagent:8429/config` page. Previously these options weren't displayed even if they were set in `-promscrape.config`.
+* BUGFIX: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): skip template execution during rules' validation. This should prevent from `error evaluating annotation template` errors when some template functions expect non-empty args. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2514).
 * BUGFIX: [MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html): properly handle joins on time series filtered by values. For example, `kube_pod_container_resource_requests{resource="cpu"} * on (namespace,pod) group_left() (kube_pod_status_phase{phase=~"Pending|Running"}==1)`. This query could result in `duplicate time series on the right side` error even if `==1` filter leaves only a single time series per `(namespace,pod)` labels. Now such query is properly executed.
 * BUGFIX: [MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html): properly handle `scalar default vector`, `scalar if vector` and `scalar ifnot vector` queries. Previously such queries could return unexpected results from the `vector` part.
 * BUGFIX: [Official Grafana dashboards for VictoriaMetrics](https://grafana.com/orgs/victoriametrics): take into account `indexdb` when calculating disk space usage. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2368).