Changelog

All notable changes to the Business News data source plugin for Grafana are documented in this file.

This changelog follows the Keep a Changelog format and adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[4.4.1] - 2026-05-20

Fixed

• Fixed missing accessibility label on a form button required for Grafana 12 compatibility.

Changed

• Plugin now requires Grafana 11.6.0 or newer.
• Replaced deprecated query editor section toggle with an updated component.

Project Updates

• Fixed E2E Docker test setup: added provisioning volume mount to the playwright service so datasource and dashboard fixtures resolve correctly.

• Updated CI/CD workflows.

• Updated development scripts and tooling.

• Removed pr-files.yml workflow; GitHub's native Files changed tab supersedes it.

• Added .npmrc with ignore-scripts=true to disable lifecycle scripts and mitigate supply-chain attack risk.

• Migrated publish workflow from auto-stamping changelog to pre-flight changelog validation.

• Bumped plugin-ci-workflows to v8.0.0.

• Bumped vitest-coverage-report-action to v2.12.0.

[4.4.0] - 2025-07-12

We are announcing the retirement of the Business News data source, effective immediately, as part of our ongoing effort to streamline and modernize our Grafana plugin ecosystem. To ensure uninterrupted access to news and data feeds, we strongly recommend migrating to the Infinity data source, a robust and versatile replacement designed to meet your monitoring and visualization needs.

Why This Change?

The retirement aligns with industry trends toward more integrated and scalable data solutions, addressing the complexities of managing fragmented data sources. The Infinity data source offers enhanced flexibility, supporting a wide range of data formats and real-time updates, making it an ideal choice for business analytics and dashboards.

[4.3.0] - 2024-12-23

Features / Enhancements

• Updated E2E tests (#86)
• Updated to Grafana 11.4 and dependencies (#87)

[4.2.0] - 2024-09-17

Features / Enhancements

• Updated E2E tests to use Docker (#80)
• Updated to Grafana 11.2 and dependencies (#81)

[4.1.0] - 2024-06-07

Features / Enhancements

• Added tooltip to Feed URL (#73)
• Added XML Server (#75)
• Updated to Grafana 11.0 and dependencies (#72)
• Update fields in items getting mixed up (#76)
• Remove Alerting support in Plugin configuration (#77)

[4.0.0] - 2024-05-09

Breaking changes

• Requires Grafana 10.1 and Grafana 11

Features / Enhancements

• Added plugin e2e tests and remove cypress (#68)
• Prepared for Grafana 11 (#71)
• Updated to Grafana 10.4.2 and dependencies (#72)

[3.1.0] - 2024-02-12

Features / Enhancements

• Added application type in Headers (#61)
• Updated ESLint configuration and refactoring (#62)
• Updated to Grafana 10.3.1 (#63)

[3.0.1] - 2023-08-02

Bugfix

• Removed root URL http://localhost:3000 added during migration to Plugin Tools

[3.0.0] - 2023-07-26

Breaking changes

• Requires Grafana 9 and Grafana 10

Features / Enhancements

• Updated tests with testing-library/react (#50)
• Migrated to Plugin Tools 1.5.2 (#51)
• Updated to Node 18 and npm (#51)
• Updated to Grafana 10.0.0 (#51)
• Added E2E Cypress testing (#52)
• Removed Grafana 8.5 support (#56)
• Updated ESLint configuration (#56)

[2.4.0] - 2023-04-08

Features / Enhancements

• Updated to Grafana 9.4.7 (#44)
• Updated CI and Release workflows (#45)
• Updated Documentation, Provisioning (#46)
• Added URL parameters with variables support (#47, #48)

[2.3.0] - 2022-11-16

Features / Enhancements

• Updated to Grafana 9.1.4 (#36)
• Added Compatibility Check Workflow (#37)
• Updated CI to Node 16 and Synchronize with Release workflow (#39)
• Updated to Grafana 9.2.2 (#40)
• Updated CI to upload signed artifacts (#41)

[2.2.0] - 2022-08-25

Features / Enhancements

• Added YouTube video in README (#32)
• Updated based on 9.1.1 (#35)

[2.1.0] - 2022-06-23

Features / Enhancements

• Added YouTube fields parsing and refactoring (#31)

[2.0.0] - 2022-06-17

Breaking changes

• Requires Grafana 8.5+ and 9.0+

Features / Enhancements

• Updated based on 9.0.0 (#30)

[1.7.0] - 2022-05-21

Features / Enhancements

• Added Feed URL with query parameters (#28)

[1.6.2] - 2022-05-13

Breaking changes

• Requires Grafana 8.3.0 or newer.

[1.6.1] - 2022-05-13

Features / Enhancements

• Clarify Breaking change introduced in 1.6.0 (#24)
• Updated API tests and set parsing rss.channel.item as array always (#25)
• Improved test coverage (#26)

[1.6.0] - 2022-05-12

Breaking changes

• Automatic parsing of author.name and media:thumbnail.url fields break templates who uses them. To fix it, just replace it with author and media:thumbnail. Thanks to @vfauth for testing.

Features / Enhancements

• Updated based on 8.5.2 (#23)

Bug fixes

• Can't parse GitHub releases feed (#21)

[1.5.0] - 2022-04-25

Features / Enhancements

• Added Provisioning instructions to README (#16)
• Added RSS 1.0 support (#19)
• Rebuild based on 8.5.0 (#17, #20)

[1.4.0] - 2022-02-18

Features / Enhancements

• Updated using 8.4.0 and use PluginCheck v2 (#13, #14)
• Select items/entries based on the selected Time Range (#3)

[1.3.1] - 2022-02-02

Bug fixes

• Google Workspace Atom feed failed #11

[1.3.0] - 2022-01-24

Features / Enhancements

• Update README with link to the Grafana Marketplace (#8)
• Rebuild using 8.3.4 (#6)

[1.2.0] - 2022-01-11

Features / Enhancements

• Signed as Community datasource plugin (#7).

[1.1.0] - 2021-12-27

Features / Enhancements

• Extract <img src="X"> from the <figure> (#5)
• Extract Guid's text from the <guid> (#5)
• Update dashboards layout

[1.0.0] - 2021-12-26

Features / Enhancements

• Supports RSS 2.0 and Atom.
• Works great with Dynamic Text panel by Marcus Olsson (marcusolsson-dynamictext-panel).
• Initial release based on the Volkov Labs Abc Data source template.