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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• AzureMonitor: Do not quote variables when a custom “All” variable option is used.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