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Release notes for Grafana 8.4.0

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:26:57 +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

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:26:57 +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

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:26:57 +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 8.4.10

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:26:57 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.10

Bug fixes

Security: Fixes for CVE-2022-31107 and CVE-2022-31097. #52218, @IevaVasiljeva

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.2

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:26:57 +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

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:26:57 +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

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:26:57 +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

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:26:57 +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

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:26:57 +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

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:26:57 +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