* Parallize label queries to both stores
This executes label queries against ingesters and store in parallel,
rather than sequentially
* Return err without any checks as suggested
* [5790](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/5790) **chaudum**: Add UDP support for Promtail's syslog target.
* [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.
* [5943](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/5943) **tpaschalis**: Add configuration support for excluding configuration files when instantiating Promtail.
* [5997](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/5997) **simonswine**: Querier: parallize label queries to both stores.
* [5984](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/5984) **dannykopping** and **salvacorts**: Querier: prevent unnecessary calls to ingesters.
* [5943](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/5943) **tpaschalis**: Add support for exclusion patterns in Promtail's static_config
* [5879](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/5879) **MichelHollands**: Remove lines matching delete request expression when using "filter-and-delete" deletion mode.
* [5899](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/5899) **simonswine**: Update go image to 1.17.9.
* [5888](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/5888) **Papawy** Fix common configuration block net interface name when overwritten by ring common configuration.