What's new?
October 2025​
Find the whole letter at Grafana Developer Newsletter - October 2025.
New platform capabilities and other updates:
- Internationalization (i18n) is now supported in Grafana plugins. Refer to Translate your plugin for all the details
- Tooling updates now run a series of migrations to imrpove the updating experience. Find more details in Grafana Developer Newsletter - October 2025
- The Plugin validator can now output its results into a JSON format
New documentation:
- Debug your plugins with React Tools tutorial
- Revamp of UI extensions documentation, including:
- Best practices
- When to use add and when to use expose to share content
- Testing UI extensions between multiple plugins,
- Exposing a lazy loaded component
- Using UI extensions for general functions
- How to make your datasource support SQL Expressions
- We're currently working on improving our Data structure documentation
July 2025​
Find the whole letter at Grafana Developer Newsletter - July 2025.
Breaking changes:
- Grafana 12.0.0:
- Removal of AngularJS
- Removal of all UI Extensions deprecated APIs ('getPluginExtensions', 'usePluginExtensions', 'usePluginLinkExtensions', 'usePluginComponentExtensions')
- Grafana 12.0.2:
- Plugins declaring a dependency on another plugin can no longer reference a specific version
- Apps still using React Router 5 need to upgrade to version 6
- @grafana/scenes version 6 also moves to use React Router 6
New platform capabilities and other updates:
- Plugin usage stats are now available in your “My Plugins” area on grafana.com
- You can now add user-specific persistent storage to your plugins
- If you’re creating extension points, you can share typescript types between plugins
- Our recommended end-to-end workflows got an update! Refer to Grafana Developer Newsletter - July 2025 for all the details
New documentation:
- Manage backwards compatibility with runtime checks
- Action sets, folder access levels with permissions in the How to implement RBAC in app plugins doc
- Add support for Private Data Source Connect (PDC)
- About LLMs and MCP in Grafana plugins
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