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Release notes for Grafana 8.3.6

Thu, 05 Jan 2023 14:32:23 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.3.6

Features and enhancements

Cloud Monitoring: Reduce request size when listing labels. #44365, @mtanda
Explore: Show scalar data result in a table instead of graph. #44362, @tharun208
Snapshots: Updates the default external snapshot server URL. #44563, @DanCech
Table: Makes footer not overlap table content. #44210, @dprokop
Tempo: Add request histogram to service graph datalink. #44671, @connorlindsey
Tempo: Add time range to tempo search query behind a feature flag. #43811, @connorlindsey
Tempo: Auto-clear results when changing query type. #44390, @connorlindsey
Tempo: Display start time in search results as relative time. #44568, @tharun208

Bug fixes

CloudMonitoring: Fix resource labels in query editor. #44550, @iwysiu
Cursor sync: Apply the settings without saving the dashboard. #44270, @dprokop
LibraryPanels: Fix for Error while cleaning library panels. #45033, @hugohaggmark
Logs Panel: fix timestamp parsing for string dates without timezone. #44664, @Elfo404
Prometheus: Fix some of the alerting queries that use reduce/math operation. #44380, @ivanahuckova
TablePanel: Fix ad-hoc variables not working on default datasources. #44314, @joshhunt
Text Panel: Fix alignment of elements. #44313, @ashharrison90
Variables: Fix for constant variables in self referencing links. #44631, @hugohaggmark

Release notes for Grafana 8.3.7

Thu, 05 Jan 2023 14:32:23 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.3.7

Bug fixes

Provisioning: Ensure that the default value for orgID is set when provisioning datasources to be deleted. #44244, @filewalkwithme

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.0

Thu, 05 Jan 2023 14:32:23 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.0

Features and enhancements

API: Extract OpenAPI specification from source code using go-swagger. #40528, @papagian
AccessControl: Disable user remove and user update roles when they do not have the permissions. #43429, @Jguer
AccessControl: Provisioning for teams. #43767, @gamab
API: Add usage stats preview endpoint. #43899, @Jguer
Alerting: Move slow queries in the scheduler to another goroutine. #44423, @grobinson-grafana
Alerting: Use time.Ticker instead of alerting.Ticker in ngalert. #44395, @grobinson-grafana
Alerting: add custom grouping to Alert Panel. #44559, @gillesdemey
Analytics: Add user id tracking to google analytics. #42763, @autoric
Angular: Add AngularJS plugin support deprecation plan to docs site. #45149, @torkelo
Auth: implement auto_sign_up for auth.jwt. #43502, @sakjur
Azure Monitor Logs: Order subscriptions in resource picker by name. #45228, @sunker
Azure monitor Logs: Optimize data fetching in resource picker. #44549, @sunker
AzureMonitor: Filter list of resources by resourceType. #43522, @andresmgot
BarChart: color by field, x time field, bar radius, label skipping. #43257, @leeoniya
Chore: Implement OpenTelemetry in Grafana. #42674, @idafurjes
Cloud Monitoring: Adds metric type to Metric drop down options. #43268, @tw1nk
CloudWatch: Add Data Lifecycle Manager metrics and dimension. #43310, @ilyastoli
CloudWatch: Add Missing Elasticache Host-level metrics. #43455, @dhendo
CloudWatch: Add all ElastiCache Redis Metrics. #43336, @siavashs
CloudWatch: Add new AWS/ES metrics. #43034, @sunker
Cloudwatch: Add syntax highlighting and autocomplete for “Metric Search”. #43985, @sarahzinger
Explore: Support custom display label for exemplar links for Prometheus datasource. #42732, @JokerQueue
Hotkeys: Make time range absolute/permanent. #43802, @davkal
Playlists: Enable sharing direct links to playlists. #44161, @ashharrison90
SQLStore: Prevent concurrent migrations. #44101, @papagian
SSE: Add Mode to drop NaN/Inf/Null in Reduction operations. #43583, @kylebrandt
Setting: Support configuring feature toggles with bools instead of just passing an array. #43326, @bergquist
TimeSeries: Add support for negative Y and constant transform. #44774, @dprokop
Transformations: Add ‘JSON’ field type to ConvertFieldTypeTransformer. #42624, @sd2k

Bug fixes

Auth: Guarantee consistency of signed SigV4 headers. #45054, @wbrowne
CloudWatch: Fix MetricName resetting on Namespace change. #44165, @yaelleC
Cloudwatch : Fixed resetting metric name when changing namespace in Metric Query. #44612, @yaelleC
Explore: Avoid locking timepicker when range is inverted. #44790, @Elfo404
Instrumentation: Fix HTTP request instrumentation of authentication failures. #44234, @marefr
LibraryPanels: Prevent long descriptions and names from obscuring the delete button. #45190, @zuchka
OAuth: Fix parsing of ID token if header contains non-string value. #44159, @marefr
Panel Edit: Visualization search now works correctly with special characters. #45137, @ashharrison90
Provisioning: Fix duplicate validation when multiple organizations have been configured. #44151, @marefr
QueryField: Fix issue with undo history when suggestion is inserted (#28656). #39114, @glintik
TablePanel: Do not prefix columns with frame name if multiple frames and override active. #45174, @mdvictor

Deprecations

AngularJS plugin support is now in a deprecated state, meaning it will be removed in a future release. Currently, that is planned for version 10 (in 2023). The documentation site has an article with more details on why, when, and how. Issue #45149

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.0-beta1

Thu, 05 Jan 2023 14:32:23 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.0-beta1

Features and enhancements

Alerting: Support WeCom as a contact point type. #40975, @smallpath
Alerting: UI for mute timings. #41578, @nathanrodman
Alerting: add settings for peer reconnection in HA mode. #42300, @JohnnyQQQQ
Auth: implement auto_sign_up for auth.jwt. #37040, @Roguelazer
Dashboard: Add Show unknown variables toggle to dashboard settings. #41854, @hugohaggmark
Instrumentation: Logger migration from log15 to gokit/log. #41636, @ying-jeanne
MSSQL: Change regex to validate Provider connection string. #40248, @ianselmi
MSSQL: Configuration of certificate verification for TLS connection. #31865, @mortenaa
Middleware: Don’t require HTTPS for HSTS headers to be emitted. #35147, @alexmv
Navigation: Implement Keyboard Navigation. #41618, @axelavargas
News: Reload feed when changing the time range or refreshing. #42217, @ashharrison90
UI/Plot: Implement keyboard controls for plot cursor. #42244, @kaydelaney

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.1

Thu, 05 Jan 2023 14:32:23 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.1

Features and enhancements

Cloudwatch: Add support for AWS/PrivateLink* metrics and dimensions. #45515, @szymonpk
Configuration: Add ability to customize okta login button name and icon. #44079, @DanCech
Tempo: Switch out Select with AsyncSelect component to get loading state in Tempo Search. #45110, @CatPerry

Bug fixes

Alerting: Fix migrations by making send_alerts_to field nullable. #45572, @santihernandezc

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.2

Thu, 05 Jan 2023 14:32:23 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.2

Features and enhancements

OAuth: Add setting to skip org assignment for external users. #34834, @baez90
Tracing: Add option to map tag names to log label names in trace to logs settings. #45178, @connorlindsey

Bug fixes

Explore: Fix closing split pane when logs panel is used. #45602, @ifrost

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.3

Thu, 05 Jan 2023 14:32:23 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.3

Features and enhancements

Alerting: Grafana uses > instead of >= when checking the For duration. #46010
Alerting: Use expanded labels in dashboard annotations. #45726, @grobinson-grafana
Logs: Escape windows newline into single newline. #45771, @perosb

Bug fixes

Alerting: Fix use of > instead of >= when checking the For duration. #46011, @grobinson-grafana
Azure Monitor: Fixes broken log queries that use workspace. #45820, @sunker
CloudWatch: Remove error message when using multi-valued template vars in region field. #45886, @sunker
Middleware: Fix IPv6 host parsing in CSRF check. #45911, @ying-jeanne

Plugin development fixes & changes

ClipboardButton: Use a fallback when the Clipboard API is unavailable. #45831, @ashharrison90

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.4

Thu, 05 Jan 2023 14:32:23 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.4

Features and enhancements

Loki: Add unpack to autocomplete suggestions (#44623). #46573, @glintik
Plugins: allow using both Function and Class components for app plugins. #46148, @leventebalogh
TimeSeries: Add migration for Graph panel’s transform series override. #46577, @dprokop
TimeSeries: Preserve null/undefined values when performing negative y transform. #46584, @dprokop

Bug fixes

CloudWatch: Use default http client from aws-sdk-go. #46370, @sunker
Dashboards: Fixes repeating by row and no refresh. #46565, @torkelo
Gauge: Fixes blank viz when data link exists and orientation was horizontal. #46335, @torkelo
Search: sort results correctly when using postgres. #46466, @xlson
TagsInput: fix tags remove button accessibility issues. #46254, @Elfo404
TextPanel: Sanitize after markdown has been rendered to html. #46166, @ashharrison90

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.5

Thu, 05 Jan 2023 14:32:23 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.5

Features and enhancements

Instrumentation: Make backend plugin metrics endpoints available with optional authentication. #46467, @marefr
Table panel: Show datalinks for cell display modes JSON View and Gauge derivates. #46020, @mdvictor

Bug fixes

Azure Monitor: Small bug fixes for Resource Picker. #46665, @sarahzinger
Logger: Use specified format for file logger. #46970, @sakjur
Logs: Handle missing fields in dataframes better. #46963, @gabor
ManageDashboards: Fix error when deleting all dashboards from folder view. #46877, @joshhunt

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.6

Thu, 05 Jan 2023 14:32:23 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.6

Security: Fixes CVE-2022-24812. For more information, see our blog

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.7

Thu, 05 Jan 2023 14:32:23 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.7

Features and enhancements

CloudWatch: Added missing MemoryDB Namespace metrics. #47290, @james-deee
Histogram Panel: Take decimal into consideration. #47330, @mdvictor
TimeSeries: Sort tooltip values based on raw values. #46738, @dprokop

Bug fixes

API: Include userId, orgId, uname in request logging middleware. #47183, @marefr
Elasticsearch: Respect maxConcurrentShardRequests datasource setting. #47120, @alexandrst88

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.0

Thu, 05 Jan 2023 14:32:23 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.0

Features and enhancements

Alerting: Add contact points provisioning API. #47197, @JohnnyQQQQ
Alerting: Add resolved count to notification title when both firing and resolved present. #46697, @JacobsonMT
Alerting: Alert rule should wait For duration when execution error state is Alerting. #47052, @grobinson-grafana
Alerting: Classic conditions can now display multiple values. #46971, @gotjosh
Alerting: Display query from grafana-managed alert rules on /api/v1/rules. #45969, @gotjosh
Alerting: Enhance support for arbitrary group names in managed alerts. #47785, @gillesdemey
Alerting: add field for custom slack endpoint. #45751, @nathanrodman
Azure Monitor : Adding json formatting of error messages in Panel Header Corner and Inspect Error Tab. #44877, @yaelleC
Azure Monitor: Add 2 more Curated Dashboards for VM Insights. #45187, @jcolladokuri
CloudWatch: Handle new error codes for MetricInsights. #47033, @Gabrielopesantos
Dashboards: show changes in save dialog. #46557, @ryantxu
DataSource: Default data source is no longer a persisted state but just the default data source for new panels. #45132, @torkelo
DataSourcePlugin API: Allow queries import when changing data source type. #47435, @dprokop
Explore: Remove return to panel button. #45018, @gelicia
Explore: allow users to save Explore state to a new panel in a new dashboard. #45148, @Elfo404
Instrumentation: Proxy status code correction and various improvements. #47473, @marefr
Logging: Introduce feature toggle to activate gokit/log format. #47336, @ying-jeanne
NewsPanel: Add support for Atom feeds. #45390, @kaydelaney
Plugins: Add deprecation notice for /api/tsdb/query endpoint. #45238, @wbrowne
Plugins: Adding support for traceID field to accept variables. #45559, @vinisdl
PostgreSQL: __unixEpochGroup to support arithmetic expression as argument. #46764, @s0nik42
Profile/Help: Expose option to disable profile section and help menu. #46308, @cameronwaterman
Prometheus: Enable new visual query builder by default. #46634, @torkelo
SAML: Allow disabling of SAML signups. #47481, @mmandrus
SAML: Allow disabling of SAML signups. (Enterprise)
Table: New pagination option. #45732, @zoltanbedi
TablePanel: Add cell inspect option. #45620, @dprokop
Tempo / Trace Viewer: Support Span Links in Trace Viewer. #45632, @Shachi16
Tempo: Download span references in data inspector. #47074, @connorlindsey
Tempo: Separate trace to logs and loki search datasource config. #46655, @connorlindsey
Trace View: Show number of child spans. #44393, @tharun208
Transformations: Support escaped characters in key-value pair parsing. #47901, @aangelisc

Bug fixes

Azure Monitor: Bug Fix for incorrect variable cascading for template variables. #47478, @jcolladokuri
CloudWatch: List all metrics properly in SQL autocomplete. #45898, @sunker
CloudWatch: Run query on blur in logs query field. #47454, @fridgepoet
Dashboard: Template variables are now correctly persisted when clicking breadcrumb links. #46790, @ashharrison90
DashboardPage: Remember scroll position when coming back panel edit / view panel. #47639, @torkelo
Panel Edit: Options search now works correctly when a logarithmic scale option is set. #47927, @ashharrison90
Postgres: Return tables with hyphenated schemes. #45754, @zuchka
Table panel: Fix horizontal scrolling when pagination is enabled. #47776, @dprokop
Variables: Ensure variables in query params are correctly recognised. #47049, @ashharrison90
Variables: Fix crash when changing query variable datasource. #44957, @joshhunt
Visualizations: Stack negative-valued series downwards. #47373, @leeoniya

Breaking changes

For a proxied request, e.g. Grafana’s datasource or plugin proxy:

If the request is cancelled, e.g. from the browser/by the client, the HTTP status code is now 499 Client closed request instead of 502 Bad gateway
If the request times out, e.g. takes longer time than allowed, the HTTP status code is now 504 Gateway timeout instead of 502 Bad gateway. Issue #47473

The change in behavior is that negative-valued series are now stacked downwards from 0 (in their own stacks), rather than downwards from the top of the positive stacks. We now automatically group stacks by Draw style, Line interpolation, and Bar alignment, making it impossible to stack bars on top of lines, or smooth lines on top of stepped lines. Issue #47373

The meaning of the default data source has now changed from being a persisted property in a panel. Before when you selected the default data source for a panel and later changed the default data source to another data source it would change all panels who were configured to use the default data source. From now on the default data source is just the default for new panels and changing the default will not impact any currently saved dashboards. Issue #45132

The Tooltip component provided by @grafana/ui is no longer automatically interactive (that is you can hover onto it and click a link or select text). It will from now on by default close automatically when you mouse out from the trigger element. To make tooltips behave like before set the new interactive property to true.
Issue #45053

Deprecations

/api/tsdb/query API has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Use /api/ds/query instead. Issue #45238

Plugin development fixes & changes

Card: Increase clickable area when meta items are present. #47935, @ashharrison90
Loki: Fix operator description propup from being shortened. #46575, @glintik
Tooltips: Make tooltips non interactive by default. #45053, @torkelo

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.0-beta1

Thu, 05 Jan 2023 14:32:23 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.0-beta1

Features and enhancements

Add config option to enable/disable reporting. (Enterprise)
Alerting: Accurately set value for prom-compatible APIs. #47216, @gotjosh
Alerting: Provisioning API - Notification Policies. #46755, @alexweav
Analytics: Enable grafana and plugin update checks to be operated independently. #46352, @wbrowne
Azure Monitor: Add support for multiple template variables in resource picker. #46215, @sarahzinger
Caching: Add separate TTL for resources cache. (Enterprise)
Caching: add support for TLS configuration for Redis Cluster. (Enterprise)
NewsPanel: Remove Use Proxy option and update documentation with recommendations. #47189, @joshhunt
OAuth: Sync GitHub OAuth user name to Grafana if it’s set. #45438, @pallxk

Bug fixes

Plugins: Fix Default Nav URL for dashboard includes. #47143, @wbrowne

Breaking changes

When user is using Github OAuth, GitHub login is showed as both Grafana login and name. Now the GitHub name is showed as Grafana name, and GitHub login is showed as Grafana Login. Issue #45438

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.1

Thu, 05 Jan 2023 14:32:23 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.1

Bug fixes

Azure Monitor: Fix space character encoding for metrics query link to Azure Portal. #48139, @kevinwcyu
CloudWatch: Prevent log groups from being removed on query change. #47994, @asimpson
Cloudwatch: Fix template variables in variable queries. #48140, @iwysiu
Explore: Prevent direct access to explore if disabled via feature toggle. #47714, @Elfo404
InfluxDB: Fixes invalid no data alerts. #48295, @yesoreyeram
Navigation: Prevent navbar briefly showing on login. #47968, @ashharrison90
Plugins Catalog: Fix styling of hyperlinks. #48196, @marefr
Table: Fix filter crashes table. #48258, @zoltanbedi
TimeSeries: Properly stack series with missing datapoints. #48321, @leeoniya

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.10

Thu, 05 Jan 2023 14:32:23 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.10

Bug fixes

RBAC: Fix Anonymous Editors missing dashboard controls. #52649, @gamab

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.13

Thu, 05 Jan 2023 14:32:23 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.13

Features and enhancements

Plugins: Expose @emotion/react to plugins to prevent load failures. #55297, @jackw

Bug fixes

AuthNZ: Security fixes for CVE-2022-35957 and CVE-2022-36062. #55495, @IevaVasiljeva

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.2

Thu, 05 Jan 2023 14:32:23 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.2

Features and enhancements

Alerting: Add safeguard for migrations that might cause dataloss. #48526, @JohnnyQQQQ
AzureMonitor: Add support for not equals and startsWith operators when creating Azure Metrics dimension filters. #48077, @aangelisc
Elasticsearch: Add deprecation notice for < 7.10 versions. #48506, @ivanahuckova
Traces: Filter by service/span name and operation in Tempo and Jaeger. #48209, @joey-grafana

Bug fixes

AzureAd Oauth: Fix strictMode to reject users without an assigned role. #48474, @kyschouv
CloudWatch: Fix variable query tag migration. #48587, @iwysiu
Plugins: Ensure catching all appropriate 4xx api/ds/query scenarios. #47565, @wbrowne

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.3

Thu, 05 Jan 2023 14:32:23 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.3

Bug fixes

Security: fixes CVE-2022-29170. #49240, @xlson

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.4

Tue, 07 Feb 2023 17:27:27 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.4

Features and enhancements

Alerting: Remove disabled flag for data source when migrating alerts. #48559, @yuri-tceretian
Alerting: Show notification tab of legacy alerting only to editor. #49624, @yuri-tceretian
Alerting: Update migration to migrate only alerts that belong to existing org\dashboard. #49192, @yuri-tceretian
AzureMonitor: Do not quote variables when a custom “All” variable option is used. #49428, @andresmgot
AzureMonitor: Update allowed namespaces. #48468, @jcolladokuri
CloudMonitor: Correctly encode default project response. #49510, @aangelisc
Cloudwatch: Add support for new AWS/RDS EBS* metrics. #48798, @szymonpk
InfluxDB: Use backend for influxDB by default via feature toggle. #48453, @yesoreyeram
Legend: Use correct unit for percent and count calculations. #49004, @dprokop
LokI: use millisecond steps in Grafana 8.5.x. #48630, @gabor
Plugins: Introduce HTTP 207 Multi Status response to api/ds/query. #48550, @wbrowne
Reporting: Improve PDF file size using grid layout. (Enterprise)
Transformations: Add an All Unique Values Reducer. #48653, @josiahg
Transformers: avoid error when the ExtractFields source field is missing. #49368, @wardbekker
[v8.5.x] Alerting: Update migration to migrate only alerts that belong to existing org\dashboard. #49199, @grafanabot
[v8.5.x] Reporting: Improve PDF file size using grid layout. (Enterprise)

Bug fixes

Alerting: Allow disabling override timings for notification policies. #48648, @gillesdemey
Alerting: Allow serving images from custom url path. #49022, @gillesdemey
Alerting: Apply Custom Headers to datasource queries. #47860, @joeblubaugh
Alerting: Fix RBAC actions for notification policies. #49185, @yuri-tceretian
Alerting: Fix access to alerts for viewer with editor permissions when RBAC is disabled. #49270, @yuri-tceretian
Alerting: Fix anonymous access to alerting. #49203, @yuri-tceretian
Alerting: correctly show all alerts in a folder. #48684, @gillesdemey
AzureMonitor: Fixes metric definition for Azure Storage queue/file/blob/table resources. #49101, @aangelisc
Dashboard: Fix dashboard update permission check. #48746, @IevaVasiljeva
DashboardExport: Fix exporting and importing dashboards where query data source ended up as incorrect. #48410, @torkelo
FileUpload: clicking the Upload file button now opens the modal correctly. #48766, @ashharrison90
GrafanaUI: Fix color of links in error Tooltips in light theme. #49327, @joshhunt
LibraryPanels: Fix library panels not connecting properly in imported dashboards. #49161, @joshhunt
Loki: Improve unpack parser handling. #49074, @gabor
RolePicker: Fix menu position on smaller screens. #48429, @Clarity-89
TimeRange: Fixes updating time range from url and browser history. #48657, @torkelo
TimeSeries: Fix detection & rendering of sparse datapoints. #48841, @leeoniya
Timeseries: Fix outside range stale state. #49633, @ryantxu
Tooltip: Fix links not legible in Tooltips when using light theme. #48748, @joshhunt
Tooltip: Sort decimals using standard numeric compare. #49084, @dprokop
Transforms: Labels to fields, fix label picker layout. #49304, @torkelo
Variables: Fixes issue with data source variables not updating queries with variable. #49478, @torkelo
[v8.5.x] Alerting: Fix RBAC actions for notification policies (#49185). #49348, @yuri-tceretian
[v8.5.x] Alerting: Fix access to alerts for viewer with editor permissions when RBAC is disabled. #49427, @konrad147
[v8.5.x] Alerting: Fix anonymous access to alerting. #49268, @yuri-tceretian

Breaking changes

For a data source query made via /api/ds/query :

If the DatasourceQueryMultiStatus feature is enabled and
- The data source response has an error set as part of the DataResponse, the resulting HTTP status code is now 207 Multi Status instead of 400 Bad gateway
If the DatasourceQueryMultiStatus feature is not enabled and
- The data source response has an error set as part of the DataResponse, the resulting HTTP status code is 400 Bad Request (no breaking change) –> Issue #48550

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.5

Thu, 05 Jan 2023 14:32:23 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.5

Features and enhancements

Azure Monitor: Include datasource ref when interpolating variables. #49543, @kevinwcyu
CloudWatch: Add multi-value template variable support for log group names in logs query builder. #49737, @kevinwcyu
Cloudwatch: Add template variable query function for listing log groups. #50100, @yaelleC

Bug fixes

Alerting: Do not overwrite existing alert rule condition. #49920, @gillesdemey
Alerting: Remove double quotes from matchers. #50044, @alexweav

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.6

Thu, 05 Jan 2023 14:32:23 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.6

Bug fixes

Dashboard: Fixes random scrolling on time range change. #50379, @torkelo
Security: Fixes minor code scanning security warnings in old vendored javascript libs. #50382, @torkelo