Helm: Draft release notes for 5.6

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+title: "Grafana Mimir Helm chart version 5.6 release notes"
+menuTitle: "V5.6 release notes"
+description: "Release notes for Grafana Mimir Helm chart version 5.6"
+weight: 300
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+# Grafana Mimir Helm chart version 5.6 release notes
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+Grafana Labs is excited to announce version 5.6 of the Grafana Mimir Helm chart, which is compatible with Grafana Mimir v2.15 or Grafana Enterprise Metrics (GEM) v2.15. The `mimir-distributed` Helm chart is the best way to install Mimir on Kubernetes.
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+The highlights that follow include the top features, enhancements, and bug fixes in this release. For a comprehensive list of changes, see the [Helm chart changelog](https://github.com/grafana/mimir/tree/main/operations/helm/charts/mimir-distributed/CHANGELOG.md).
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+## Important changes
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+The rollout-operator version has been updated to version 0.20.0.
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+The `track_sizes` feature for Memcached pods has been removed.
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+## Features and enhancements
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+Support has been added for `federation-frontend` in the values file. The federation-frontend allows you to query data from multiple GEM clusters using a single endpoint. For more information about cluster query federation, refer to the [federation-frontend documentation](https://grafana.com/docs/enterprise-metrics/<GEM_VERSION>/operations/cluster-query-federation).
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+A service account for the alertmanager with dedicated permissions/authorizations can be created by setting `alertmanager.serviceAcount.create` in the values file.