chore(release-2.9.x): release 2.9.6 (#12121)

Co-authored-by: loki-gh-app[bot] <160051081+loki-gh-app[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>

.release-please-manifest.json

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 {
-  ".": "2.9.5"
+  ".": "2.9.6"
 }

CHANGELOG.md

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 ##### Security
 * [11745](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/11745) Update `golang.org/x/crypto` to `v0.18.0`
 
+## [2.9.6](https://github.com/grafana/loki/compare/v2.9.5...v2.9.6) (2024-03-21)
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* promtail failures connecting to local loki installation [release-2.9.x]  ([#12184](https://github.com/grafana/loki/issues/12184)) ([8585e35](https://github.com/grafana/loki/commit/8585e3537375c0deb11462d7256f5da23228f5e1))
+* **release-2.9.x:** frontend: Use `net.JoinHostPort` to support IPv6 addresses ([#10650](https://github.com/grafana/loki/issues/10650)) ([#11870](https://github.com/grafana/loki/issues/11870)) ([7def3b4](https://github.com/grafana/loki/commit/7def3b4e774252e13ba154ca13f72816a84da7dd))
+* update google.golang.org/protobuf to v1.33.0 ([#12269](https://github.com/grafana/loki/issues/12269)) ([#12287](https://github.com/grafana/loki/issues/12287)) ([3186520](https://github.com/grafana/loki/commit/318652035059fdaa40405f263fc9e37b4d38b157))
+
 ## [2.9.5](https://github.com/grafana/loki/compare/v2.9.4...v2.9.5) (2024-02-28)