Release notes for Grafana 8.0.6

Features and enhancements

• Alerting: Add annotation upon alert state change. #36535, @davidmparrott
• Alerting: Allow space in label and annotation names. #36549, @codesome
• InfluxDB: Improve legend labels for InfluxDB query results. #36603, @gabor

Bug fixes

• Alerting: Fix improper alert by changing the handling of empty labels. #36679, @davidmparrott
• CloudWatch/Logs: Reestablish Cloud Watch alert behavior. #36558, @aocenas
• Dashboard: Avoid migration breaking on fieldConfig without defaults field in folded panel. #36666, @glindstedt
• DashboardList: Fix issue not re-fetching dashboard list after variable change. #36591, @torkelo
• Database: Fix incorrect format of isolation level configuration parameter for MySQL. #36565, @marefr
• InfluxDB: Correct tag filtering on InfluxDB data. #36570, @gabor
• Links: Fix links that caused a full page reload. #36631, @torkelo
• Live: Fix HTTP error when InfluxDB metrics have an incomplete or asymmetrical field set. #36664, @FZambia
• Postgres/MySQL/MSSQL: Change time field to “Time” for time series queries. #36720, @marefr
• Postgres: Fix the handling of a null return value in query results. #36648, @idafurjes
• Tempo: Show hex strings instead of uints for IDs. #36471, @zoltanbedi
• TimeSeries: Improve tooltip positioning when tooltip overflows. #36440, @ashharrison90
• Transformations: Add ‘prepare time series’ transformer. #36737, @ryantxu