- **DataSource:** Adding possibility to hide queries from the inspector. [#54892](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54892), [@mckn](https://github.com/mckn)
- **Inspect:** Hide Actions tab when it is empty. [#55272](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/55272), [@ryantxu](https://github.com/ryantxu)
- **PanelMenu:** Remove hide legend action as it was showing on all panel types. [#54876](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54876), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Provisioning Contact points:** Support disableResolveMessage via YAML. [#54122](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54122), [@mmusenbr](https://github.com/mmusenbr)
- **PublicDashboards:** Support subpaths when generating pubdash url. [#55204](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/55204), [@owensmallwood](https://github.com/owensmallwood)
### Bug fixes
- **Alerting:** Fix legacy migration crash when rule name is too long. [#55053](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/55053), [@alexweav](https://github.com/alexweav)
- **Browse:** Hide dashboard actions if user does not have enough permission. [#55218](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/55218), [@lpskdl](https://github.com/lpskdl)
- **ElasticSearch:** Fix dispatching queries at a wrong time. [#55225](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/55225), [@svennergr](https://github.com/svennergr)
- **Panel:** Disable legends when showLegend is false prior to schema v37. [#55126](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/55126), [@ivanortegaalba](https://github.com/ivanortegaalba)
- **Search:** Avoid requesting all dashboards when in Folder View. [#55169](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/55169), [@JoaoSilvaGrafana](https://github.com/JoaoSilvaGrafana)
- **TablePanel/StatPanel:** Fix values not being visible when background transparent. [#55092](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/55092), [@mdvictor](https://github.com/mdvictor)
- **Alerting:** Telegram: Truncate long messages to avoid send error. [#54339](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54339), [@ZloyDyadka](https://github.com/ZloyDyadka)
- **DisplayProcessor:** Handle reverse-ordered data when auto-showing millis. [#54923](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54923), [@leeoniya](https://github.com/leeoniya)
- **Heatmap:** Add option to reverse color scheme. [#54365](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54365), [@leeoniya](https://github.com/leeoniya)
- **PluginLoader:** Alias slate-react as @grafana/slate-react. [#55027](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/55027), [@kaydelaney](https://github.com/kaydelaney)
- **Search:** Add substring matcher, to bring back the old dashboard search behavior. [#54813](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54813), [@ArturWierzbicki](https://github.com/ArturWierzbicki)
- **Traces:** More visible span colors. [#54513](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54513), [@joey-grafana](https://github.com/joey-grafana)
### Bug fixes
- **Alerting:** Fix incorrect propagation of org ID and other fields in rule provisioning endpoints. [#54603](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54603), [@alexweav](https://github.com/alexweav)
- **Alerting:** Resetting the notification policy tree to the default policy will also restore default contact points. [#54608](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54608), [@alexweav](https://github.com/alexweav)
- **AzureMonitor:** Fix issue where custom metric namespaces are not included in the metric namespace list. [#54826](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54826), [@andresmgot](https://github.com/andresmgot)
- **CloudWatch:** Fix display name of metric and namespace. [#54860](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54860), [@sunker](https://github.com/sunker)
- **Dashboard:** Fix issue where unsaved changes warning would appear even after save, and not being able to change library panels. [#54706](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54706), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Dashboard:** Hide overflow content for single left pane. [#54882](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54882), [@lpskdl](https://github.com/lpskdl)
- **Loki:** Fix a bug where adding adhoc filters was not possible. [#54920](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54920), [@svennergr](https://github.com/svennergr)
- **API:** Do not expose user input in datasource error responses. [#53483](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/53483), [@papagian](https://github.com/papagian)
- **Alerting:** Write and Delete multiple alert instances. [#54072](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54072), [@joeblubaugh](https://github.com/joeblubaugh)
- **Library Panel:** Allow to delete them when deprecated. [#54662](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54662), [@ivanortegaalba](https://github.com/ivanortegaalba)
- **Plugins Catalog:** Allow to filter plugins using special characters. [#54474](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54474), [@murtazaqa](https://github.com/murtazaqa)
### Bug fixes
- **Alerting:** Fix UI bug when setting custom notification policy group by. [#54607](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54607), [@JacobsonMT](https://github.com/JacobsonMT)
- **AppRootPage:** Fix issue navigating between two app plugin pages. [#54519](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54519), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Correlations:** Use correct fallback handlers. [#54511](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54511), [@kalleep](https://github.com/kalleep)
- **LibraryElements:** Fix inability to delete library panels under MySQL. [#54600](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54600), [@kaydelaney](https://github.com/kaydelaney)
- **Metrics:** fix `grafana_database_conn_*` metrics, and add new `go_sql_stats_*` metrics as eventual replacement. [#54405](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54405), [@hairyhenderson](https://github.com/hairyhenderson)
- **TestData DB:** Fix node graph not showing when the `Data type` field is set to `random`. [#54298](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54298), [@CrypticSignal](https://github.com/CrypticSignal)
### Deprecations
The `grafana_database_conn_*` metrics are deprecated, and will be removed in a future version of Grafana. Use the `go_sql_stats_*` metrics instead. Issue [#54405](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/54405)
- **AdHoc variable:** Correctly preselect datasource when provisioning. [#54088](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54088), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
- **AzureMonitor:** Added ARG query function for template variables. [#53059](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/53059), [@yaelleC](https://github.com/yaelleC)
- **Dashboard save:** Persist details message when navigating through dashboard save drawer's tabs. [#54084](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54084), [@vbeskrovnov](https://github.com/vbeskrovnov)
- **Dashboards:** Correctly migrate mixed data source targets. [#54152](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54152), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
- **Elasticsearch:** Use millisecond intervals for alerting. [#54157](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54157), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
- **Elasticsearch:** Use millisecond intervals in frontend. [#54202](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54202), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
- **Geomap:** Local color range. [#54348](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54348), [@adela-almasan](https://github.com/adela-almasan)
- **Plugins Catalog:** Use appSubUrl to generate plugins catalog urls. [#54426](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54426), [@academo](https://github.com/academo)
- **Rendering:** Add support for renderer token. [#54425](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54425), [@joanlopez](https://github.com/joanlopez)
### Bug fixes
- **Alerting:** Fix saving of screenshots uploaded with a signed url. [#53933](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/53933), [@VDVsx](https://github.com/VDVsx)
- **AngularPanels:** Fixing changing angular panel options not taking having affect when coming back from panel edit. [#54087](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54087), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Cloud Monitoring:** Support SLO burn rate. [#53710](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/53710), [@itkq](https://github.com/itkq)
- **Schema:** Restore "hidden" in LegendDisplayMode. [#53925](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/53925), [@academo](https://github.com/academo)
- **Timeseries:** Revert the timezone(s) property name change back to singular. [#53926](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/53926), [@academo](https://github.com/academo)
### Bug fixes
- **Alerting:** Fix links in Microsoft Teams notifications. [#54003](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54003), [@grobinson-grafana](https://github.com/grobinson-grafana)
- **Alerting:** Fix notifications for Microsoft Teams. [#53810](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/53810), [@grobinson-grafana](https://github.com/grobinson-grafana)
- **Alerting:** Fix width of Adaptive Cards in Teams notifications. [#53996](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/53996), [@grobinson-grafana](https://github.com/grobinson-grafana)
- **ColorPickerInput:** Fix popover in disabled state. [#54000](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54000), [@Clarity-89](https://github.com/Clarity-89)
- **Decimals:** Fixes auto decimals to behave the same for positive and negative values. [#53960](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/53960), [@JoaoSilvaGrafana](https://github.com/JoaoSilvaGrafana)
- **Loki:** Fix unique log row id generation. [#53932](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/53932), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
- **Plugins:** Fix file extension in development authentication guide. [#53838](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/53838), [@pbzona](https://github.com/pbzona)
- **TimeSeries:** Fix memory leak on viz re-init caused by KeyboardPlugin. [#53872](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/53872), [@leeoniya](https://github.com/leeoniya)
### Plugin development fixes & changes
- **TimePicker:** Fixes relative timerange of less than a day not displaying. [#53975](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/53975), [@JoaoSilvaGrafana](https://github.com/JoaoSilvaGrafana)
- **GrafanaUI:** Fixes ClipboardButton to always keep multi line content. [#53903](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/53903), [@JoaoSilvaGrafana](https://github.com/JoaoSilvaGrafana)
- **API:** Allow creating teams with a user defined identifier. [#48710](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48710), [@papagian](https://github.com/papagian)
- **Alerting:** Adds interval and For to alert rule details. [#53211](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/53211), [@gillesdemey](https://github.com/gillesdemey)
- **Alerting:** Extend PUT rule-group route to write the entire rule group rather than top-level fields only. [#53078](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/53078), [@alexweav](https://github.com/alexweav)
- **Alerting:** Use Adaptive Cards in Teams notifications. [#53532](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/53532), [@grobinson-grafana](https://github.com/grobinson-grafana)
- **Dashboard:** Reverted the changes of hiding multi-select and all variable in the datasource picker. [#53521](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/53521), [@lpskdl](https://github.com/lpskdl)
- **GrafanaUI:** Add success state to ClipboardButton. [#52069](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52069), [@evictorero](https://github.com/evictorero)
- **Heatmap:** Replace the heatmap panel with new implementation. [#50229](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50229), [@ryantxu](https://github.com/ryantxu)
- **KVStore:** Allow empty value in kv_store. [#53416](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/53416), [@spinillos](https://github.com/spinillos)
- **Prometheus:** Promote Azure auth flag to configuration. [#53447](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/53447), [@andresmgot](https://github.com/andresmgot)
- **Reports:** Save and update in reports should be transactional. (Enterprise)
- **Reports:** Set uid when we don't receive it in the query. (Enterprise)
- **Search:** Display only dashboards in General folder of Search Folder View. [#53607](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/53607), [@lpskdl](https://github.com/lpskdl)
- **Status history/State timeline:** Support datalinks. [#50226](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50226), [@jloupdef](https://github.com/jloupdef)
- **Transform:** Add a limit transform. [#49291](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49291), [@josiahg](https://github.com/josiahg)
- **Transformations:** Add standard deviation and variance reducers. [#49753](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49753), [@selvavm](https://github.com/selvavm)
- **Access Control:** Set permissions for Grafana's test data source. [#53247](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/53247), [@IevaVasiljeva](https://github.com/IevaVasiljeva)
- **BarGauge:** Show empty bar when value, minValue and maxValue are all equal. [#53314](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/53314), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **Dashboard:** Fix color of bold and italics text in panel description tooltip. [#53380](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/53380), [@joshhunt](https://github.com/joshhunt)
- **Loki:** Fix passing of query with defaults to code mode. [#53646](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/53646), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Loki:** Fix producing correct log volume query for query with comments. [#53254](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/53254), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Loki:** Fix showing of unusable labels field in detected fields. [#53319](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/53319), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **[9.1.x] Alerting:** AlertingProxy to elevate permissions for request forwarded to data proxy when RBAC enabled. [#53679](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/53679), [@yuri-tceretian](https://github.com/yuri-tceretian)
### Breaking changes
Alert notifications to Microsoft Teams now use Adaptive Cards instead of Office 365 Connector Cards. Issue [#53532](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/53532)
Starting at 9.1.0, existing heatmap panels will start using a new implementation. This can be disabled by setting the `useLegacyHeatmapPanel` feature flag to true. It can be tested on a single dashbobard by adding `?__feature.useLegacyHeatmapPanel=true` to any dashboard URL. Please report any [heatmap migration issues.](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/new/choose). The most notable changes are:
- Significantly improved rendering performance
- When calculating heatmaps, the buckets are now placed on reasonable borders (1m, 5m, 30s etc)
- **Plugins:** Only pass `rootUrls` field in request when not empty. [#53135](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/53135), [@wbrowne](https://github.com/wbrowne)
- **API:** Migrate CSRF to service and support additional options. [#48120](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48120), [@sakjur](https://github.com/sakjur)
- **API:** Move swagger definitions to the handlers and rename operations after them. [#52643](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52643), [@papagian](https://github.com/papagian)
- **Access Control:** Allow org admins to invite new users. [#52894](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52894), [@IevaVasiljeva](https://github.com/IevaVasiljeva)
- **AccessControl:** Check dashboards permission for reports. (Enterprise)
- **Alerting:** Add custom templated title to Wecom notifier. [#51529](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51529), [@dingweiqings](https://github.com/dingweiqings)
- **Alerting:** Add file provisioning for alert rules. [#51635](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51635), [@JohnnyQQQQ](https://github.com/JohnnyQQQQ)
- **Alerting:** Add file provisioning for contact points. [#51924](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51924), [@JohnnyQQQQ](https://github.com/JohnnyQQQQ)
- **Alerting:** Add file provisioning for mute timings. [#52936](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52936), [@JohnnyQQQQ](https://github.com/JohnnyQQQQ)
- **Alerting:** Add file provisioning for notification policies. [#52877](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52877), [@JohnnyQQQQ](https://github.com/JohnnyQQQQ)
- **Alerting:** Add file provisioning for text templates. [#52952](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52952), [@JohnnyQQQQ](https://github.com/JohnnyQQQQ)
- **Alerting:** Add first Grafana reserved label grafana_folder. [#50262](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50262), [@JacobsonMT](https://github.com/JacobsonMT)
- **Alerting:** Add support for images in Kafka alerts. [#50758](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50758), [@grobinson-grafana](https://github.com/grobinson-grafana)
- **Alerting:** Add support for images in VictorOps alerts. [#50759](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50759), [@grobinson-grafana](https://github.com/grobinson-grafana)
- **Alerting:** Adds contact point template syntax highlighting. [#51559](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51559), [@gillesdemey](https://github.com/gillesdemey)
- **Alerting:** Adds visual tokens for templates. [#51376](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51376), [@gillesdemey](https://github.com/gillesdemey)
- **Alerting:** Change **alertScreenshotToken** to **alertImageToken**. [#50771](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50771), [@grobinson-grafana](https://github.com/grobinson-grafana)
- **Alerting:** Configure alert manager data source as an external AM. [#52081](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52081), [@konrad147](https://github.com/konrad147)
- **Alerting:** Do not include button in googlechat notification if URL invalid. [#47317](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/47317), [@j6s](https://github.com/j6s)
- **Alerting:** Group alert state history by labels and allow filtering. [#52784](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52784), [@gillesdemey](https://github.com/gillesdemey)
- **Alerting:** Make ticker to tick at predictable time. [#50197](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50197), [@yuri-tceretian](https://github.com/yuri-tceretian)
- **Alerting:** Persist rule position in the group. [#50051](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50051), [@yuri-tceretian](https://github.com/yuri-tceretian)
- **Alerting:** Prevent evaluation if "for" shorter than "evaluate". [#51797](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51797), [@peterholmberg](https://github.com/peterholmberg)
- **Alerting:** Rule api to fail update if provisioned rules are affected. [#50835](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50835), [@yuri-tceretian](https://github.com/yuri-tceretian)
- **Alerting:** Scheduler to drop ticks if a rule's evaluation is too slow. [#48885](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48885), [@yuri-tceretian](https://github.com/yuri-tceretian)
- **Alerting:** Show evaluation interval global limit warning. [#52942](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52942), [@konrad147](https://github.com/konrad147)
- **Alerting:** State manager to use tick time to determine stale states. [#50991](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50991), [@yuri-tceretian](https://github.com/yuri-tceretian)
- **Alerting:** Support for optimistic locking for alert rules. [#50274](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50274), [@yuri-tceretian](https://github.com/yuri-tceretian)
- **Alerting:** Update RBAC for alert rules to consider access to rule as access to group it belongs. [#49033](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49033), [@yuri-tceretian](https://github.com/yuri-tceretian)
- **Auth:** Lockdown non-editables in frontend when external auth is configured. [#52160](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52160), [@Jguer](https://github.com/Jguer)
- **Azure Monitor:** Add new dashboard with geo map for app insights test availability. [#52494](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52494), [@jcolladokuri](https://github.com/jcolladokuri)
- **Azure Monitor:** New template variable editor. [#52594](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52594), [@andresmgot](https://github.com/andresmgot)
- **Chore:** Add dashboard UID as query parameter of Get annotation endpoint. [#52764](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52764), [@ying-jeanne](https://github.com/ying-jeanne)
- **Chore:** Remove jest-coverage-badges dep from toolkit. [#49883](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49883), [@zoltanbedi](https://github.com/zoltanbedi)
- **Chore:** Rename dashboardUID to dashboardUIDs in search endpoint and up…. [#52766](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52766), [@ying-jeanne](https://github.com/ying-jeanne)
- **CloudWatch:** Add default log groups to config page. [#49286](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49286), [@iwysiu](https://github.com/iwysiu)
- **CommandPalette:** Populate dashboard search when the palette is opened. [#51293](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51293), [@ryantxu](https://github.com/ryantxu)
- **Core Plugins:** Add support for HTTP logger. [#46578](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/46578), [@toddtreece](https://github.com/toddtreece)
- **Custom branding:** Add UI for setting configuration. (Enterprise)
- **Custom branding:** Add custom branding service (early access). (Enterprise)
- **Data Connections:** Create a new top-level page. [#50018](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50018), [@leventebalogh](https://github.com/leventebalogh)
- **DataSource:** Allow data source plugins to set query default values. [#49581](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49581), [@sunker](https://github.com/sunker)
- **Docs:** CSRF add configuration options and documentation for additional headers and origins. [#50473](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50473), [@eleijonmarck](https://github.com/eleijonmarck)
- **Elasticsearch:** Added `modifyQuery` method to add filters in Explore. [#52313](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52313), [@svennergr](https://github.com/svennergr)
- **Explore:** Add ability to include tags in trace to metrics queries. [#49433](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49433), [@connorlindsey](https://github.com/connorlindsey)
- **Explore:** Download and upload service graphs for Tempo. [#50260](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50260), [@connorlindsey](https://github.com/connorlindsey)
- **Explore:** Make service graph visualization use available vertical space. [#50518](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50518), [@connorlindsey](https://github.com/connorlindsey)
- **Explore:** Reset Graph overrides if underlying series changes. [#49680](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49680), [@Elfo404](https://github.com/Elfo404)
- **Explore:** Sort trace process attributes alphabetically. [#51261](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51261), [@connorlindsey](https://github.com/connorlindsey)
- **Geomap:** Add ability to select a data query filter for each layer. [#49966](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49966), [@mmandrus](https://github.com/mmandrus)
- **GeomapPanel:** Add base types to data layer options. [#50053](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50053), [@drew08t](https://github.com/drew08t)
- **Graph Panel:** Add feature toggle that will allow automatic migration to timeseries panel. [#50631](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50631), [@ryantxu](https://github.com/ryantxu)
- **Graphite:** Introduce new query types in annotation editor. [#52341](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52341), [@itsmylife](https://github.com/itsmylife)
- **Infra:** Pass custom headers in resource request. [#51291](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51291), [@aocenas](https://github.com/aocenas)
- **Insights:** Add RBAC for insights features. (Enterprise)
- **Instrumentation:** Add more buckets to the HTTP request histogram. [#51492](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51492), [@bergquist](https://github.com/bergquist)
- **Instrumentation:** Convert some metrics to histograms. [#50420](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50420), [@SuperQ](https://github.com/SuperQ)
- **Jaeger:** Add support for variables. [#50500](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50500), [@joey-grafana](https://github.com/joey-grafana)
- **LibraryPanels:** Require only viewer permissions to use a Library Panel. [#50241](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50241), [@joshhunt](https://github.com/joshhunt)
- **Logs:** Handle clicks on legend labels in histogram. [#49931](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49931), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
- **Logs:** Improve the color for unknown log level. [#52711](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52711), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
- **Loki/Logs:** Make it possible to copy log values to clipboard. [#50914](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50914), [@Seyaji](https://github.com/Seyaji)
- **Loki:** Add hint for pipeline error to query builder. [#52134](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52134), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Loki:** Add hints for level-like labels. [#52414](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52414), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Loki:** Add support for IP label and line filter in query builder. [#52658](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52658), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Loki:** Add unwrap with conversion function to builder. [#52639](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52639), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Loki:** Implement hints for query builder. [#51795](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51795), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Loki:** Move explain section to builder mode. [#52879](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52879), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Loki:** Show label options for unwrap operation. [#52810](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52810), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Loki:** Support json parser with expressions in query builder. [#51965](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51965), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Navigation:** Display `Starred` dashboards in the `Navbar`. [#51038](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51038), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **Node Graph Panel:** Add options to configure units and arc colors. [#51057](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51057), [@connorlindsey](https://github.com/connorlindsey)
- **OAuth:** Allow role mapping from GitHub and GitLab groups. [#52407](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52407), [@Jguer](https://github.com/Jguer)
- **Opentsdb:** Add tag values into the opentsdb response. [#48672](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48672), [@xy-man](https://github.com/xy-man)
- **OptionsUI:** UnitPicker now supports isClearable setting. [#51064](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51064), [@ryantxu](https://github.com/ryantxu)
- **Piechart:** Implements series override -> hide in area for the legend or tooltip. [#51297](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51297), [@daniellee](https://github.com/daniellee)
- **Plugin admin:** Add a page to show where panel plugins are used in dashboards. [#50909](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50909), [@ryantxu](https://github.com/ryantxu)
- **Plugins:** Add validation for plugin manifest. [#52787](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52787), [@wbrowne](https://github.com/wbrowne)
- **Prometheus:** Move explain section to builder mode. [#52935](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52935), [@itsmylife](https://github.com/itsmylife)
- **Prometheus:** Support 1ms resolution intervals. [#44707](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44707), [@dankeder](https://github.com/dankeder)
- **Prometheus:** Throw error on direct access. [#50162](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50162), [@aocenas](https://github.com/aocenas)
- **RBAC:** Add RBAC for query caching. (Enterprise)
- **RBAC:** Add access control metadata to folder dtos. [#51158](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51158), [@kalleep](https://github.com/kalleep)
- **Service Accounts:** Managed permissions for service accounts. [#51818](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51818), [@IevaVasiljeva](https://github.com/IevaVasiljeva)
- **Service accounts:** Grafana service accounts are enabled by default. [#51402](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51402), [@vtorosyan](https://github.com/vtorosyan)
- **ServiceAccounts:** Add Service Account Token last used at date. [#51446](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51446), [@Jguer](https://github.com/Jguer)
- **SharePDF:** Use currently selected variables and time range when generating PDF. (Enterprise)
- **Slider:** Enforce numeric constraints and styling within the text input. [#50905](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50905), [@drew08t](https://github.com/drew08t)
- **State Timeline:** Enable support for annotations. [#47887](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/47887), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
- **Table panel:** Add multiple data links support to Default, Image and JSONView cells. [#51162](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51162), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
- **TeamSync:** Remove LDAP specific example from team sync. [#51368](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51368), [@Jguer](https://github.com/Jguer)
- **TeamSync:** Support case insensitive matches and wildcard groups. (Enterprise)
- **Tempo:** Add context menu to edges. [#52396](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52396), [@joey-grafana](https://github.com/joey-grafana)
- **Tempo:** Consider tempo search out of beta and remove beta badge and feature flags. [#50030](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50030), [@connorlindsey](https://github.com/connorlindsey)
- **Tempo:** Tempo/Prometheus links select ds in new tab (cmd + click). [#52319](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52319), [@joey-grafana](https://github.com/joey-grafana)
- **Time series panel:** Hide axis when series is hidden from the visualization. [#51432](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51432), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
- **TimeSeries:** Add option for symmetrical y axes (align 0). [#52555](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52555), [@leeoniya](https://github.com/leeoniya)
- **TimeSeries:** Add option to match axis color to series color. [#51437](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51437), [@leeoniya](https://github.com/leeoniya)
- **Timeseries:** Support multiple timezones in x axis. [#52424](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52424), [@ryantxu](https://github.com/ryantxu)
- **TopNav:** Adds new feature toggle for upcoming nav. [#51115](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51115), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Traces:** Add absolute time to span details. [#50685](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50685), [@joey-grafana](https://github.com/joey-grafana)
- **Traces:** Consistent span colors for service names. [#50782](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50782), [@joey-grafana](https://github.com/joey-grafana)
- **Traces:** Move towards using OTEL naming conventions. [#51379](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51379), [@joey-grafana](https://github.com/joey-grafana)
- **Traces:** Span bar label. [#50931](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50931), [@joey-grafana](https://github.com/joey-grafana)
- **Transformations:** Add standard deviation and variance reducers. [#52769](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52769), [@ryantxu](https://github.com/ryantxu)
- **Transforms:** Add Join by label transformation. [#52670](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52670), [@ryantxu](https://github.com/ryantxu)
- **URL:** Encode certain special characters. [#51806](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51806), [@L-M-K-B](https://github.com/L-M-K-B)
- **ValueMappings:** Make value mapping row focusable. [#52337](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52337), [@lpskdl](https://github.com/lpskdl)
- **Variables:** Add 'jsonwithoutquote' formatting options for variables, and format of variable supports pipeline. [#51859](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51859), [@MicroOps-cn](https://github.com/MicroOps-cn)
- **Variables:** Selectively reload panels on URL update. [#51003](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51003), [@toddtreece](https://github.com/toddtreece)
- **Various Panels:** Add ability to toggle legend with keyboard shortcut. [#52241](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52241), [@alyssabull](https://github.com/alyssabull)
### Bug fixes
- **API:** Fix failing test by initialising legacy guardian when creating folder scenario. [#50800](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50800), [@vicmarbev](https://github.com/vicmarbev)
- **Access control:** Show dashboard settings to users who can edit dashboard. [#52532](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52532), [@IevaVasiljeva](https://github.com/IevaVasiljeva)
- **Alerting:** Fix RegExp matchers in frontend for Silences and other previews. [#51726](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51726), [@joeblubaugh](https://github.com/joeblubaugh)
- **Alerting:** Fix rule API to accept 0 duration of field `For`. [#50992](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50992), [@yuri-tceretian](https://github.com/yuri-tceretian)
- **Alerting:** Increase alert rule operation perf by replacing subquery with threshold calculation. [#53069](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/53069), [@alexweav](https://github.com/alexweav)
- **Barchart Panel:** Fix threshold colors changing when data is refreshed. [#52038](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52038), [@mingozh](https://github.com/mingozh)
- **Geomap:** Update with template variable change. [#52007](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52007), [@drew08t](https://github.com/drew08t)
- **Loki:** Fix adding of multiple label filters when parser. [#52335](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52335), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Loki:** Fix support of ad-hoc filters for specific queries. [#51232](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51232), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Navigation:** Hide `Dashboards`/`Starred items` from navbar when unauthenticated. [#53051](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/53051), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **Slider:** Fixes styling of marker dots. [#52678](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52678), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Tracing:** Fix links to traces in Explore. [#50113](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50113), [@connorlindsey](https://github.com/connorlindsey)
### Breaking changes
Some swagger operations and responses have been renamed to match the respective handler names in order to better highlight their relation.
If you use the Swagger specification for generating code, you have to re-generate it and make the necessary adjustments. Issue [#52643](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/52643)
The following metrics have been converted to histograms:
In Elasticsearch versions 7.x, to specify the interval-value we used the `interval` property. In Grafana 9.1.0 we switched to use the `fixed_interval` property. This makes it to be the same as in Elasticsearch versions 8.x, also this provides a more consistent experience, `fixed_interval` is a better match to Grafana's time invervals. For most situations this will not cause any visible change to query results. Issue [#50297](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/50297)
### Grafana now reserves alert labels prefixed with `grafana_`
Labels prefixed with `grafana_` are reserved by Grafana for special use. If a manually configured label is added beginning with `grafana_` it may be overwritten in case of collision.
The current list of labels created by Grafana and available for use anywhere manually configured labels are:
| grafana_folder | Title of the folder containing the alert. | Issue [#50262](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/50262) |
In Prometheus, browser access mode was deprecated in Grafana 7.4.0 and removed in 9.0.0. If you used this mode, please switch to server access mode on the datasource configuration page. Issue [#50162](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/50162)
### Plugin development fixes & changes
- **Dropdown:** New dropdown component. [#52684](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52684), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **AngularPanels:** Fixing changing angular panel options not taking having affect when coming back from panel edit. [#54834](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54834), [@grafanabot](https://github.com/grafanabot)
- **AuthNZ:** Security fixes for CVE-2022-35957 and CVE-2022-36062. [#55498](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/55498), [@IevaVasiljeva](https://github.com/IevaVasiljeva)
- **Alerting:** Hide "no rules" message when we are fetching from data sources. [#53778](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/53778), [@gillesdemey](https://github.com/gillesdemey)
- **Rendering:** Add support for renderer token (#54425). [#54439](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54439), [@joanlopez](https://github.com/joanlopez)
- **Reports:** Title is showing under panels. (Enterprise)
- **Alerting:** AlertingProxy to elevate permissions for request forwarded to data proxy when RBAC enabled. [#53680](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/53680), [@yuri-tceretian](https://github.com/yuri-tceretian)
- **CloudMonitoring:** Remove link setting for SLO queries. [#53031](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/53031), [@andresmgot](https://github.com/andresmgot)
- **Access Control:** Allow org admins to invite new users to their organization. [#52904](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52904), [@IevaVasiljeva](https://github.com/IevaVasiljeva)
### Bug fixes
- **Grafana/toolkit:** Fix incorrect image and font generation for plugin builds. [#52927](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52927), [@academo](https://github.com/academo)
- **Prometheus:** Fix adding of multiple values for regex operator. [#52978](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52978), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Access control:** Show dashboard settings to users who can edit dashboard. [#52535](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52535), [@grafanabot](https://github.com/grafanabot)
- **Alerting:** Allow the webhook notifier to support a custom Authorization header. [#52515](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52515), [@gotjosh](https://github.com/gotjosh)
- **Chore:** Upgrade to Go version 1.17.12. [#52523](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52523), [@sakjur](https://github.com/sakjur)
- **Prometheus:** Don't show errors from unsuccessful API checks like rules or exemplar checks. [#52193](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52193), [@darrenjaneczek](https://github.com/darrenjaneczek)
### Bug fixes
- **Access control:** Allow organisation admins to add existing users to org (#51668). [#52553](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52553), [@vtorosyan](https://github.com/vtorosyan)
- **Apps:** Fixes navigation between different app plugin pages. [#52571](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52571), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Cloudwatch:** Upgrade grafana-aws-sdk to fix auth issue with secret keys. [#52420](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52420), [@sarahzinger](https://github.com/sarahzinger)
- **Grafana/toolkit:** Fix incorrect image and font generation for plugin builds. [#52661](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52661), [@academo](https://github.com/academo)
- **Loki:** Fix `show context` not working in some occasions. [#52458](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52458), [@svennergr](https://github.com/svennergr)
- **RBAC:** Fix permissions on dashboards and folders created by anonymous users. [#52615](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52615), [@gamab](https://github.com/gamab)
- **Browse/Search:** Make browser back work properly when visiting Browse or search. [#52271](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52271), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Loki:** Improve handling of empty responses. [#52397](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52397), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
- **Plugins:** Always validate root URL if specified in signature manfiest. [#52332](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52332), [@wbrowne](https://github.com/wbrowne)
- **Preferences:** Get home dashboard from teams. [#52225](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52225), [@sakjur](https://github.com/sakjur)
- **SQLStore:** Support Upserting multiple rows. [#52228](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52228), [@joeblubaugh](https://github.com/joeblubaugh)
- **Traces:** Add more template variables in Tempo & Zipkin. [#52306](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52306), [@joey-grafana](https://github.com/joey-grafana)
- **Alerting:** Preserve new-lines from custom email templates in rendered email. [#52253](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52253), [@alexweav](https://github.com/alexweav)
- **Insights:** Fix dashboard and data source insights pages. (Enterprise)
- **Log:** Fix text logging for unsupported types. [#51306](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51306), [@papagian](https://github.com/papagian)
- **Loki:** Fix incorrect TopK value type in query builder. [#52226](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52226), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Access control:** Allow organisation admins to add existing users to org. [#51668](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51668), [@IevaVasiljeva](https://github.com/IevaVasiljeva)
- **Alerting:** Add method to provisioning API for obtaining a group and its rules. [#51761](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51761), [@alexweav](https://github.com/alexweav)
- **Alerting:** Add method to provisioning API for obtaining a group and its rules. [#51398](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51398), [@alexweav](https://github.com/alexweav)
- **Alerting:** Allow filtering of contact points by name. [#51933](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51933), [@alexweav](https://github.com/alexweav)
- **Alerting:** Disable /api/admin/pause-all-alerts with Unified Alerting. [#51895](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51895), [@joeblubaugh](https://github.com/joeblubaugh)
- **Analytics:** Add total queries and cached queries in usage insights logs. (Enterprise)
- **Annotations:** Use point marker for short time range annotations. [#51520](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51520), [@codeincarnate](https://github.com/codeincarnate)
- **AzureMonitor:** Update UI to experimental package. [#52123](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52123), [@asimpson](https://github.com/asimpson)
- **AzureMonitor:** Update resource and namespace metadata. [#52030](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52030), [@despian](https://github.com/despian)
- **CloudWatch:** Remove simplejson in favor of 'encoding/json'. [#51062](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51062), [@asimpson](https://github.com/asimpson)
- **DashboardRow:** Collapse shortcut prevent to move the collapsed rows. [#51589](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51589), [@ivanortegaalba](https://github.com/ivanortegaalba)
- **Insights:** Add dashboard UID to exported logs. (Enterprise)
- **Navigation:** Highlight active nav item when Grafana is served from subpath. [#51767](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51767), [@kianelbo](https://github.com/kianelbo)
- **Plugins:** InfluxDB datasource - set epoch query param value as "ms". [#51651](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51651), [@itsmylife](https://github.com/itsmylife)
- **Plugins:** InfluxDB update time range query. [#51833](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51833), [@itsmylife](https://github.com/itsmylife)
- **StateTimeline:** Try to sort time field. [#51569](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51569), [@zoltanbedi](https://github.com/zoltanbedi)
### Bug fixes
- **API:** Do not validate/save legacy alerts when saving a dashboard if legacy alerting is disabled. [#51883](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51883), [@papagian](https://github.com/papagian)
- **Alerting:** Add method to reset notification policy tree back to the default. [#51934](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51934), [@alexweav](https://github.com/alexweav)
- **Alerting:** Fix Teams notifier not failing on 200 response with error. [#52254](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52254), [@JacobsonMT](https://github.com/JacobsonMT)
- **Alerting:** Fix bug where state did not change between Alerting and Error. [#52204](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52204), [@grobinson-grafana](https://github.com/grobinson-grafana)
- **Alerting:** Fix consistency errors in OpenAPI documentation. [#51935](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51935), [@alexweav](https://github.com/alexweav)
- **Alerting:** Fix normalization of alert states for panel annotations. [#51637](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51637), [@gillesdemey](https://github.com/gillesdemey)
- **Alerting:** Provisioning API respects global rule quota. [#52180](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52180), [@alexweav](https://github.com/alexweav)
- **Loki:** Fix error when changing operations with different parameters. [#51779](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51779), [@svennergr](https://github.com/svennergr)
- **Loki:** Fix suggesting of correct operations in query builder. [#52034](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52034), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **SQLstore:** Fix fetching an inexistent playlist. [#51962](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51962), [@papagian](https://github.com/papagian)
- **Security:** Fixes for CVE-2022-31107 and CVE-2022-31097. [#52279](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52279), [@kminehart](https://github.com/kminehart)
- **Snapshots:** Fix deleting external snapshots when using RBAC. [#51897](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51897), [@idafurjes](https://github.com/idafurjes)
- **Table:** Fix scrollbar being hidden by pagination. [#51501](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51501), [@zoltanbedi](https://github.com/zoltanbedi)
- **Templating:** Changing between variables with the same name now correctly triggers a dashboard refresh. [#51490](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51490), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **Time series panel:** Fix an issue with stacks being not complete due to the incorrect data frame length. [#51910](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51910), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
- **[v9.0.x] Snapshots:** Fix deleting external snapshots when using RBAC (#51897). [#51904](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51904), [@idafurjes](https://github.com/idafurjes)
- **Alerting:** Add support for images in Pushover alerts. [#51372](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51372), [@grobinson-grafana](https://github.com/grobinson-grafana)
- **Alerting:** Don't stop the migration when alert rule tags are invalid. [#51253](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51253), [@gotjosh](https://github.com/gotjosh)
- **Alerting:** Don't stop the migration when alert rule tags are invalid (…. [#51341](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51341), [@gotjosh](https://github.com/gotjosh)
- **Alerting:** Skip the default data source if incompatible. [#51452](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51452), [@gillesdemey](https://github.com/gillesdemey)
- **AzureMonitor:** Parse non-fatal errors for Logs. [#51320](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51320), [@andresmgot](https://github.com/andresmgot)
- **Plugins:** Improved handling of symlinks. [#51324](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51324), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)
### Bug fixes
- **Alerting:** Code-gen parsing of URL parameters and fix related bugs. [#51353](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51353), [@alexweav](https://github.com/alexweav)
- **Alerting:** Code-gen parsing of URL parameters and fix related bugs. [#50731](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50731), [@alexweav](https://github.com/alexweav)
- **Dashboards:** Fixes issue with the initial panel layout counting as an unsaved change. [#51315](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51315), [@JoaoSilvaGrafana](https://github.com/JoaoSilvaGrafana)
- **Plugins:** Use a Grafana specific SDK logger implementation for core plugins. [#51229](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51229), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)
- **Search:** Fix pagination in the new search page. [#51366](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51366), [@ArturWierzbicki](https://github.com/ArturWierzbicki)
- **Alerting:** Add support for image annotation in Alertmanager alerts. [#50686](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50686), [@grobinson-grafana](https://github.com/grobinson-grafana)
- **Alerting:** Add support for images in SensuGo alerts. [#50718](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50718), [@grobinson-grafana](https://github.com/grobinson-grafana)
- **Alerting:** Add support for images in Threema alerts. [#50734](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50734), [@grobinson-grafana](https://github.com/grobinson-grafana)
- **Alerting:** Adds Mimir to Alertmanager data source implementation. [#50943](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50943), [@gillesdemey](https://github.com/gillesdemey)
- **Alerting:** Invalid setting of enabled for unified alerting should return error. [#49876](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49876), [@grobinson-grafana](https://github.com/grobinson-grafana)
- **AzureMonitor:** Clean namespace when changing the resource. [#50311](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50311), [@andresmgot](https://github.com/andresmgot)
- **AzureMonitor:** Update supported namespaces and filter resources by the right type. [#50788](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50788), [@andresmgot](https://github.com/andresmgot)
- **CLI:** Allow relative symlinks in zip archives when installing plugins. [#50537](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50537), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)
- **Dashboard:** Don't show unsaved changes modal for automatic schema changes. [#50822](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50822), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Dashboard:** Unsaved changes warning should not trigger when only pluginVersion has changed. [#50677](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50677), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Geomap:** Support showing tooltip content on click (not just hover). [#50985](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50985), [@ryantxu](https://github.com/ryantxu)
- **Heatmap:** Remove alpha flag from new heatmap panel. [#50733](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50733), [@ryantxu](https://github.com/ryantxu)
- **Instrumentation:** Define handlers for requests that are not handled with named handlers. [#50613](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50613), [@bergquist](https://github.com/bergquist)
- **Logs:** Handle backend-mode errors in histogram. [#50535](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50535), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
- **Loki:** Do not show histogram for instant queries. [#50711](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50711), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
- **Loki:** Handle data source configs with path in the url. [#50971](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50971), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
- **Loki:** Handle invalid query type values. [#50755](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50755), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
- **OAuth:** Redirect to login if no oauth module is found or if module is not configured. [#50661](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50661), [@kalleep](https://github.com/kalleep)
- **OptionsUI:** Move internal options editors out of @grafana/ui. [#50739](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50739), [@ryantxu](https://github.com/ryantxu)
- **Prometheus:** Don't show undefined for step in collapsed options in query editor when value is "auto". [#50511](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50511), [@aocenas](https://github.com/aocenas)
- **Prometheus:** Show query patterns in all editor modes for Prometheus and Loki. [#50263](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50263), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Tempo:** Add link to Tempo Search with node service selected. [#49776](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49776), [@joey-grafana](https://github.com/joey-grafana)
- **Time Series Panel:** Add Null Filling and "No Value" Support. [#50907](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50907), [@codeincarnate](https://github.com/codeincarnate)
- **TimeSeries:** Add an option to set legend width. [#49126](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49126), [@bobrik](https://github.com/bobrik)
- **Timeseries:** Improve cursor Y sync behavior. [#50740](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50740), [@ryantxu](https://github.com/ryantxu)
- **Traces:** Do not use red in span colors as this looks like an error. [#50074](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50074), [@joey-grafana](https://github.com/joey-grafana)
### Bug fixes
- **Alerting:** Fix AM config overwrite when SQLite db is locked during sync. [#50951](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50951), [@JacobsonMT](https://github.com/JacobsonMT)
- **Alerting:** Fix removal of notification policy without labels matchers. [#50678](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50678), [@konrad147](https://github.com/konrad147)
- **CloudWatch:** Allow hidden queries to be executed in case an ID is provided. [#50987](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50987), [@sunker](https://github.com/sunker)
- **Dashboard:** Prevent non-repeating panels being dropped from repeated rows when collapsed/expanded. [#50764](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50764), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **Dashboards:** Fix folder picker not showing correct results when typing too fast. [#50303](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50303), [@joshhunt](https://github.com/joshhunt)
- **Datasource:** Prevent panic when proxying for non-existing data source. [#50667](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50667), [@wbrowne](https://github.com/wbrowne)
- **Explore:** Fix log context scroll to bottom. [#50600](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50600), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Explore:** Revert "Remove support for compact format URLs (#49350)". [#50873](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50873), [@gelicia](https://github.com/gelicia)
- **Expressions:** Fixes dashboard schema migration issue that casued Expression datasource to be set on panel level. [#50945](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50945), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Formatting:** Fixes valueFormats for a value of 0. [#50719](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50719), [@JoaoSilvaGrafana](https://github.com/JoaoSilvaGrafana)
- **GrafanaData:** Fix week start for non-English browsers. [#50582](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50582), [@AgnesToulet](https://github.com/AgnesToulet)
- **LibraryPanel:** Resizing a library panel to 6x3 no longer crashes the dashboard on startup. [#50400](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50400), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **LogRow:** Fix placement of icon. [#51010](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51010), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Loki:** Fix bug in labels framing. [#51015](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51015), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
- **Loki:** Fix issues with using query patterns. [#50414](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50414), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Loki:** Fix showing of duplicated label values in dropdown in query builder. [#50680](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50680), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Panels:** Fixes issue with showing 'Cannot visualize data' when query returned 0 rows. [#50485](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50485), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Playlists:** Disable Create Playlist buttons for users with viewer role. [#50840](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50840), [@asymness](https://github.com/asymness)
- **Plugins:** Fix typo in plugin data frames documentation. [#50554](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50554), [@osisoft-mbishop](https://github.com/osisoft-mbishop)
- **Prometheus:** Fix body not being included in resource calls if they are POST. [#50833](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50833), [@aocenas](https://github.com/aocenas)
- **RolePicker:** Fix submenu position on horizontal space overflow. [#50769](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50769), [@Clarity-89](https://github.com/Clarity-89)
- **Tracing:** Fix trace links in traces panel. [#50028](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50028), [@connorlindsey](https://github.com/connorlindsey)
### Deprecations
Support for compact Explore URLs is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Until then, when navigating to Explore using the deprecated format the URLs are automatically converted. If you have existing links pointing to Explore update them using the format generated by Explore upon navigation.
You can identify a compact URL by its format. Compact URLs have the left (and optionally right) url parameter as an array of strings, for example `&left=["now-1h","now"...]`. The standard explore URLs follow a key/value pattern, for example `&left={"datasource":"test"...}`. Please be sure to check your dashboards for any hardcoded links to Explore and update them to the standard URL pattern. Issue [#50873](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/50873)
- **API:** Add GET /api/annotations/:annotationId endpoint. [#47739](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/47739), [@scottbock](https://github.com/scottbock)
- **API:** Add endpoint for updating a data source by its UID. [#49396](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49396), [@papagian](https://github.com/papagian)
- **AccessControl:** Add enterprise only setting for rbac permission cache. [#49006](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49006), [@kalleep](https://github.com/kalleep)
- **Alerting:** Add Image URLs to Microsoft Teams notifier. [#49385](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49385), [@joeblubaugh](https://github.com/joeblubaugh)
- **Alerting:** Add RBAC actions and role for provisioning API routes. [#50459](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50459), [@yuri-tceretian](https://github.com/yuri-tceretian)
- **Alerting:** Add Screenshot URLs to Pagerduty Notifier. [#49377](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49377), [@joeblubaugh](https://github.com/joeblubaugh)
- **Alerting:** Add a "Reason" to Alert Instances to show underlying cause of state. [#49259](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49259), [@joeblubaugh](https://github.com/joeblubaugh)
- **Alerting:** Add a general screenshot service and alerting-specific image service. [#49293](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49293), [@joeblubaugh](https://github.com/joeblubaugh)
- **Alerting:** Add image url or file attachment to email notifications. [#49381](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49381), [@joeblubaugh](https://github.com/joeblubaugh)
- **Alerting:** Add image_urls to OpsGenie notification details. [#49379](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49379), [@joeblubaugh](https://github.com/joeblubaugh)
- **Alerting:** Attach image URL to alerts in Webhook notifier format. [#49378](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49378), [@joeblubaugh](https://github.com/joeblubaugh)
- **Alerting:** Attach image URLs or upload files to Discord notifications. [#49439](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49439), [@alexweav](https://github.com/alexweav)
- **Alerting:** Attach image URLs to Google Chat notifications. [#49445](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49445), [@alexweav](https://github.com/alexweav)
- **Alerting:** Attach screenshot data to Unified Alerting notifications. [#49374](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49374), [@joeblubaugh](https://github.com/joeblubaugh)
- **Alerting:** Create folder for alerting when start from the scratch. [#48866](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48866), [@yuri-tceretian](https://github.com/yuri-tceretian)
- **Alerting:** Modify alertmanager endpoints for proxying using the datasource UID. [#47978](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/47978), [@papagian](https://github.com/papagian)
- **Alerting:** Modify endpoint for testing a datasource rule using the UID. [#48070](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48070), [@papagian](https://github.com/papagian)
- **Alerting:** Modify prometheus endpoints for proxying using the datasource UID. [#48052](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48052), [@papagian](https://github.com/papagian)
- **Alerting:** State Manager takes screenshots. [#49338](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49338), [@joeblubaugh](https://github.com/joeblubaugh)
- **Alerting:** Use UID scope for folders authorization. [#48970](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48970), [@yuri-tceretian](https://github.com/yuri-tceretian)
- **Alerting:** modify ruler endpoints for proxying using the datasource UID. [#48046](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48046), [@papagian](https://github.com/papagian)
- **Angular:** Adds back two angular directives that are still used by remaining angular bits and plugins. [#50380](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50380), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **AzureMonitor:** Add support for selecting multiple options when using the equals and not equals dimension filters. [#48650](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48650), [@aangelisc](https://github.com/aangelisc)
- **Chore:** Upgrade typescript to 4.6.4. [#49016](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49016), [@kaydelaney](https://github.com/kaydelaney)
- **Cloud Monitoring:** Use new annotation API. [#49026](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49026), [@kevinwcyu](https://github.com/kevinwcyu)
- **CloudMonitoring:** Allow to set a custom value or disable graph_period. [#48646](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48646), [@andresmgot](https://github.com/andresmgot)
- **CloudWatch:** Enable support for dynamic labels with migrated alias patterns. [#49173](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49173), [@sunker](https://github.com/sunker)
- **Cloudwatch:** Pass label in deep link. [#49160](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49160), [@sunker](https://github.com/sunker)
- **Cloudwatch:** Use new annotation API. [#48102](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48102), [@sunker](https://github.com/sunker)
- **Dashboard:** Validate dashboards against schema on save. [#48252](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48252), [@sdboyer](https://github.com/sdboyer)
- **DashboardPickerByID:** Add option to exclude dashboards. [#49211](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49211), [@Clarity-89](https://github.com/Clarity-89)
- **Dashboards:** Display values of 0 with the configured decimal places. [#48155](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48155), [@wx1322](https://github.com/wx1322)
- **Data:** Remove deprecated types and functions from valueMappings. [#50035](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50035), [@kaydelaney](https://github.com/kaydelaney)
- **Elasticsearch:** Remove support for versions after their end of the life (<7.10.0). [#48715](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48715), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Encryption:** Add support for multiple data keys per day. [#47765](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/47765), [@joanlopez](https://github.com/joanlopez)
- **Encryption:** Enable envelope encryption by default. [#49301](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49301), [@joanlopez](https://github.com/joanlopez)
- **Explore:** Remove support for legacy, compact format URLs. [#49350](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49350), [@gelicia](https://github.com/gelicia)
- **Explore:** Skip Angular error handling when Angular support is disabled. [#49311](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49311), [@ifrost](https://github.com/ifrost)
- **Explore:** simplify support for multiple query editors. [#48701](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48701), [@Elfo404](https://github.com/Elfo404)
- **FeatureToggles:** Support changing feature toggles with URL parameters. [#50275](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50275), [@ryantxu](https://github.com/ryantxu)
- **FileUpload:** Make component accessible by keyboard navigation. [#47497](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/47497), [@tolzhabayev](https://github.com/tolzhabayev)
- **Formatting:** Make SI number formats more robust. [#50117](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50117), [@kaydelaney](https://github.com/kaydelaney)
- **Graph:** Deprecate Graph (old) and make it no longer a visualization option for new panels. [#48034](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48034), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **IconButton:** IconButtons are now correctly aligned in Safari. [#48759](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48759), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **Logger:** Enable new logging format by default. [#47584](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/47584), [@ying-jeanne](https://github.com/ying-jeanne)
- **Loki:** Add more query patterns. [#50248](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50248), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Loki:** Enable new visual query builder by default. [#48346](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48346), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Loki:** use the same dataframe-format for both live and normal queries. [#47153](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/47153), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
- **OAuth:** Make allowed email domain case insensitive. [#49252](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49252), [@Jguer](https://github.com/Jguer)
- **Panels:** Use the No value option when showing the no data message. [#47675](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/47675), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Plugins:** Remove plugin list panel. [#46914](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/46914), [@tolzhabayev](https://github.com/tolzhabayev)
- **Query History:** Enable new query history by default. [#49407](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49407), [@ifrost](https://github.com/ifrost)
- **QueryEditorRow:** Show query errors next to query in a consistent way across Grafana. [#47613](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/47613), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **SAML:** Implement Name Templates for assertion_attribute_name option. [#48022](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48022), [@mmandrus](https://github.com/mmandrus)
- **Service accounts:** Do not display service accounts assigned to team. [#48995](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48995), [@eleijonmarck](https://github.com/eleijonmarck)
- **Settings:** Use Grafana Azure SDK to pass Azure env vars for external plugins. [#48954](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48954), [@kostrse](https://github.com/kostrse)
- **Shortcuts:** Add shortcut to show shortcuts to the list of shortcuts. [#48395](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48395), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Traces Panel:** Add new Traces Panel visualization. [#47534](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/47534), [@joey-grafana](https://github.com/joey-grafana)
- **Traces:** Filter by service/span name and operation in Tempo and Jaeger. [#48209](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48209), [@joey-grafana](https://github.com/joey-grafana)
- **Transformations:** Allow more complex regex expressions in `Rename by regex`. [#48179](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48179), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **grafana/ui:** Add default type="button" to <Button>. [#48183](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48183), [@axelavargas](https://github.com/axelavargas)
- **AzureMonitor:** Fix auto-selection of time-grain for metrics. [#49278](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49278), [@aangelisc](https://github.com/aangelisc)
- **DataSources:** Fixes issue with expressions not being queried. [#50446](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50446), [@JoaoSilvaGrafana](https://github.com/JoaoSilvaGrafana)
- **GraphNG:** Fix thresholds by color not following data update. [#48571](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48571), [@zoltanbedi](https://github.com/zoltanbedi)
- **Login:** Fix mismatching label on auth_module in user list. [#49177](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49177), [@Jguer](https://github.com/Jguer)
- **Playlists:** Save button now correctly creates a new playlist. [#50381](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50381), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **RBAC:** Fix migrations running in the wrong order causing inheritance problem in enterprise. [#50452](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50452), [@gamab](https://github.com/gamab)
- **RBAC:** Fix migrations running into the wrong order. (Enterprise)
- **ServiceAccounts:** Add identifiable token prefix to service account tokens. [#49011](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49011), [@Jguer](https://github.com/Jguer)
- **Traces:** Fix missing CopyButton on KeyValueTables and overlapping of panels. [#49271](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49271), [@svennergr](https://github.com/svennergr)
### Breaking changes
The `@grafana/ui` package helper function `selectOptionInTest` used in frontend tests has been removed as it caused testing libraries to be bundled in the production code of Grafana. If you were using this helper function in your tests please update your code accordingly:
Removed deprecated `checkHealth` prop from the `@grafana/e2e``addDataSource` config. Previously this value defaulted to `false`, and has not been used in end-to-end tests since Grafana 8.0.3. Issue [#50296](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/50296)
Removes the deprecated `LegacyBaseMap`, `LegacyValueMapping`, `LegacyValueMap`, and `LegacyRangeMap` types, and `getMappedValue` function from grafana-data. Migration is as follows:
This change fixes a bug in Grafana where intermittent failure of database, network between Grafana and the database, or error in querying the database would cause all alert rules to be unscheduled in Grafana. Following this change scheduled alert rules are not updated unless the query is successful.
The `get_alert_rules_duration_seconds` metric has been renamed to `schedule_query_alert_rules_duration_seconds`. Issue [#49874](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/49874)
- Any secret (data sources credential, alert manager credential, etc, etc) created or modified with Grafana v9.0 won't be decryptable from any previous version (by default) because the way encrypted secrets are stored into the database has changed. Although secrets created or modified with previous versions will still be decryptable by Grafana v9.0.
- If required, although generally discouraged, the `disableEnvelopeEncryption` feature toggle can be enabled to keep envelope encryption disabled once updating to Grafana v9.0.
- In case of need to rollback to an earlier version of Grafana (i.e. Grafana v8.x) for any reason, after being created or modified any secret with Grafana v9.0, the `envelopeEncryption` feature toggle will need to be enabled to keep backwards compatibility (only from `v8.3.x` a bit unstable, from `8.5.x` stable).
- As a final attempt to deal with issues related with the aforementioned situations, the `grafana-cli admin secrets-migration rollback` command has been designed to move back all the Grafana secrets encrypted with envelope encryption to legacy encryption. So, after running that command it should be safe to disable envelope encryption and/or roll back to a previous version of Grafana.
- Alternatively or complementarily to all the points above, backing up the Grafana database before updating could be a good idea to prevent disasters (although the risk of getting some secrets corrupted only applies to those updates/created with after updating to Grafana v9.0). Issue [#49301](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/49301)
- According to the dynamic labels documentation, you can use up to five dynamic values per label. There’s currently no such restriction in the alias pattern system, so if more than 5 patterns are being used the GetMetricData API will return an error.
- Dynamic labels only allow \${LABEL} to be used once per query. There’s no such restriction in the alias pattern system, so in case more than 1 is being used the GetMetricData API will return an error.
- When no alias is provided by the user, Grafana will no longer fallback with custom rules for naming the legend.
- In case a search expression is being used and no data is returned, Grafana will no longer expand dimension values, for instance when using a multi-valued template variable or star wildcard `*` in the dimension value field. Ref https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/20729
- Time series might be displayed in a different order. Using for example the dynamic label `${PROP('MetricName')}`, might have the consequence that the time series are returned in a different order compared to when the alias pattern `{{metric}}` is used
In Elasticsearch, browser access mode was deprecated in grafana 7.4.0 and removed in 9.0.0. If you used this mode, please switch to server access mode on the datasource configuration page. Issue [#49014](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/49014)
Environment variables passed from Grafana to external Azure plugins have been renamed:
-`AZURE_CLOUD` renamed to `GFAZPL_AZURE_CLOUD`
-`AZURE_MANAGED_IDENTITY_ENABLED` renamed to `GFAZPL_MANAGED_IDENTITY_ENABLED`
-`AZURE_MANAGED_IDENTITY_CLIENT_ID` renamed to `GFAZPL_MANAGED_IDENTITY_CLIENT_ID`
There are no known plugins which were relying on these variables. Moving forward plugins should read Azure settings only via Grafana Azure SDK which properly handles old and new environment variables. Issue [#48954](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/48954)
Removes support for for ElasticSearch versions after their end-of-life, currently versions <7.10.0.TocontinuetouseElasticSearchdatasource,upgradeElasticSearchtoversion7.10.0+.
Application Insights and Insight Analytics queries in Azure Monitor were deprecated in Grafana 8.0 and finally removed in 9.0. Deprecated queries will no longer be executed. Please refer to the [documentation](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/datasources/azuremonitor/deprecated-application-insights/) for more information about this change.
**grafana/ui: Button now specifies a default type="button"**
The `Button` component provided by @grafana/ui now specifies a default `type="button"` when no type is provided. In previous versions, if the attribute was not specified for buttons associated with a `<form>` the default value was `submit` per the [specification](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/button#attr-type)
You can preserve the old behavior by explicitly setting the type attribute: `<Button type="submit" />`
The `Rename by regex` transformation has been improved to allow global patterns of the form `/<stringToReplace>/g`. Depending on the regex match used, this may cause some transformations to behave slightly differently. You can guarantee the same behaviour as before by wrapping the `match` string in forward slashes (`/`), e.g. `(.*)` would become `/(.*)/` Issue [#48179](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/48179)
`<Select />` menus will now portal to the document body by default. This is to give more consistent behaviour when positioning and overlaying. If you were setting `menuShouldPortal={true}` before you can safely remove that prop and behaviour will be the same. If you weren't explicitly setting that prop, there should be no visible changes in behaviour but your tests may need updating. Please see the original PR (https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36398) for migration guides. If you were setting `menuShouldPortal={false}` this will continue to prevent the menu from portalling.
Grafana alerting endpoint prefixed with `api/v1/rule/test` that tests a rule against a Corte/Loki data source now expects the data source UID as a path parameter instead of the data source numeric identifier. Issue [#48070](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/48070)
Grafana alerting endpoints prefixed with `api/prometheus/` that proxy requests to a Cortex/Loki data source now expect the data source UID as a path parameter instead of the data source numeric identifier. Issue [#48052](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/48052)
Grafana alerting endpoints prefixed with `api/ruler/` that proxy requests to a Cortex/Loki data source now expect the data source UID as a path parameter instead of the data source numeric identifier. Issue [#48046](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/48046)
Grafana alerting endpoints prefixed with `api/alertmanager/` that proxy requests to an Alertmanager now expect the data source UID as a path parameter instead of the data source numeric identifier. Issue [#47978](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/47978)
The format of log messages have been updated, `lvl` is now `level` and `eror`and `dbug` has been replaced with `error` and `debug`. The precision of timestamps has been increased. To smooth the transition, it is possible to opt-out of the new log format by enabling the feature toggle `oldlog`. This option will be removed in a future minor release. Issue [#47584](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/47584)
In the Loki data source, the dataframe format used to represent Loki logs-data has been changed to a more efficient format. The query-result is represented by a single dataframe with a "labels" column, instead of the separate dataframes for every labels-value. When displaying such data in explore, or in a logs-panel in the dashboard will continue to work without changes, but if the data was loaded into a different dashboard-panel, or Transforms were used, adjustments may be necessary. For example, if you used the "labels to fields" transformation with the logs data, please switch to the "extract fields" transformation. Issue [#47153](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/47153)
### Deprecations
`setExploreQueryField`, `setExploreMetricsQueryField` and `setExploreLogsQueryField` are now deprecated and will be removed in a future release. If you need to set a different query editor for Explore, conditionally render based on `props.app` in your regular query editor. Please refer to https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/plugins/add-support-for-explore-queries/ for more information.
- **Alerting:** Add provenance guard to config api. [#50147](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50147), [@JohnnyQQQQ](https://github.com/JohnnyQQQQ)
- **Alerting:** Make folder filter clearable in Alert list panel. [#50093](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50093), [@peterholmberg](https://github.com/peterholmberg)
- **Alerting:** Provisioning API - Alert rules. [#47930](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/47930), [@JohnnyQQQQ](https://github.com/JohnnyQQQQ)
- **Datasource:** Remove support for unencrypted passwords. [#49987](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49987), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)
- **Dependencies:** Update to Golang version `1.17.11`. [#50253](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50253), [@dsotirakis](https://github.com/dsotirakis)
- **Loki:** Run query when pressing Enter on line-filters. [#49913](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49913), [@svennergr](https://github.com/svennergr)
- **Metrics:** Remove support for using summaries instead of histogram for HTTP instrumentation. [#49985](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49985), [@bergquist](https://github.com/bergquist)
- **Plugins:** Support headers field for check health. [#49930](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49930), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)
- **Prometheus/Loki:** Add raw query and syntax highlight in explain mode. [#50070](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50070), [@aocenas](https://github.com/aocenas)
- **Prometheus:** Migrate metadata queries to use resource calls. [#49921](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49921), [@srclosson](https://github.com/srclosson)
- **RBAC:** Make RBAC action names more consistent. [#49730](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49730), [@IevaVasiljeva](https://github.com/IevaVasiljeva)
- **RBAC:** Make RBAC action names more consistent. (Enterprise)
- **Settings:** Sunset non-duration based login lifetime config. [#49944](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49944), [@sakjur](https://github.com/sakjur)
- **[9.0.x] Alerting:** Update alert rule diff to not see difference between nil and empty map. [#50198](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50198), [@yuri-tceretian](https://github.com/yuri-tceretian)
### Bug fixes
- **Alerting:** Fix alert list panel showing firing alerts with no instances. [#50069](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50069), [@gillesdemey](https://github.com/gillesdemey)
- **Alerting:** Remove double quotes from matchers. [#50046](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50046), [@alexweav](https://github.com/alexweav)
- **Alerting:** Use correct permission scope for external AM updates. [#50159](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50159), [@gillesdemey](https://github.com/gillesdemey)
- **Datasource:** Fix allowed cookies to be forwarded as header to backend datasources. [#49541](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49541), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)
- **Loki:** Fix uncaught errors if `labelKey` contains special characters. [#49887](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49887), [@svennergr](https://github.com/svennergr)
- **Prometheus:** Fix aligning of labels of exemplars after backend migration. [#49924](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49924), [@aocenas](https://github.com/aocenas)
- **SharePDF:** Fix repeated datasource variables in PDF. (Enterprise)
- **State Timeline:** Fix Null Value Filling and Value Transformation. [#50054](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50054), [@codeincarnate](https://github.com/codeincarnate)
- **Usage stats:** Divide collection into multiple functions to isolate failures. [#49928](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49928), [@sakjur](https://github.com/sakjur)
### Breaking changes
Removes support for storing/using datasource `password` and `basicAuthPassword` unencrypted which was [deprecated in Grafana v8.1.0](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/installation/upgrading/#use-of-unencrypted-passwords-for-data-sources-no-longer-supported). Please use `secureJsonData.password` and `secureJsonData.basicAuthPassword`. Issue [#49987](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/49987)
Removes the option to instrument HTTP request in Grafana using summaries instead of histograms. Issue [#49985](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/49985)
Removes support for deprecated dataproxy.max_idle_connections_per_host setting. Please use max_idle_connections instead. Issue [#49948](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/49948)
Removes the deprecated `getFormStyles` function from grafana-ui.
Prefer using `GrafanaTheme2` and the `useStyles2` hook. Issue [#49945](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/49945)
The configuration options `auth.login_maximum_inactive_lifetime_days` and `auth.login_maximum_lifetime_days` were deprecated in Grafana v7.2.0 and have now been removed. Use `login_maximum_inactive_lifetime_duration` and `login_maximum_lifetime_duration` to customize the maximum lifetime of a login session. Issue [#49944](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/49944)
Removed the deprecated `isFocused` and `isInvalid` props from the `InlineLabel` component. These props haven't done anything for a while, so migration is just a matter of removing the props. Issue [#49929](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/49929)
Removed the deprecated `onColorChange` prop from `ColorPicker`. Moving forward the `onChange` prop should be used. Issue [#49923](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/49923)
`/api/tsdb/query` API has been removed. Use [/api/ds/query](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/http_api/data_source/#query-a-data-source) instead.
`onClipboardCopy` and `onClipboardError` APIs have been changed such that the callback's argument is just the text that's been copied rather than the old `ClipboardEvent` interface.
We've added a migration from the old action names to the new names and have updated our documentation. But you will have to update any scripts and provisioning files that are using the old action names. Issue [#49730](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/49730)
The following RBAC action renames have been carried out:
We've added a migration from the old action names to the new names and have updated our documentation. But you will have to update any scripts and provisioning files that are using the old action names. Issue [#3372](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/3372)
- **Alerting:** Enable Unified Alerting for open source and enterprise. [#49834](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49834), [@grobinson-grafana](https://github.com/grobinson-grafana)
- **Alerting:** Make alertmanager datasource stable. [#49485](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49485), [@gillesdemey](https://github.com/gillesdemey)
- **Angular:** Remove deprecated angular modal support and libs. [#49781](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49781), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **ValueMapping:** Add support for regex replacement over multiple lines. [#49607](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49607), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
### Bug fixes
- **Accessibility:** Pressing escape in a Modal or DashboardSettings correctly closes the overlay. [#49500](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49500), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **BackendSrv:** Throw an error when fetching an invalid JSON. [#47493](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/47493), [@leventebalogh](https://github.com/leventebalogh)
- **Loki:** Fix unwrap parsing in query builder. [#49732](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49732), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Navigation:** Position hamburger menu correctly in mobile view. [#49603](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49603), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **PanelEditor:** Fixes issue with Table view and multi data frames. [#49854](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49854), [@JoaoSilvaGrafana](https://github.com/JoaoSilvaGrafana)
- **Preferences:** Fix updating of preferences for Navbar and Query History. [#49677](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49677), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **TimeRange:** Fixes issue when zooming out on a timerange with timespan 0. [#49622](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49622), [@JoaoSilvaGrafana](https://github.com/JoaoSilvaGrafana)
- **Variables:** Fixes DS variables not being correctly used in panel queries. [#49323](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49323), [@JoaoSilvaGrafana](https://github.com/JoaoSilvaGrafana)
### Breaking changes
Drop support for deprecated setting ldap_sync_ttl under [auth.proxy]
Only sync_ttl will work from now on Issue [#49902](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/49902)
Removes support for deprecated `heading` and `description` props. Moving forward, the `Card.Heading` and `Card.Description` components should be used. Issue [#49885](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/49885)
Removes the deprecated `link` variant from the `Button` component.
To migrate, replace any usage of `variant="link"` with `fill="text"`. Issue [#49843](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/49843)
Removes the deprecated `surface` prop from the `IconButton` component. This prop hasn't actually done anything for a while, so it should be safe to just remove any instances of its usage.
Removes the deprecated `TextDisplayOptions` export from `@grafana/data` in favor of `VizTextDisplayOptions` from `@grafana/schema`. To migrate, just replace usage of `TextDisplayOptions` with `VizTextDisplayOptions`. Issue [#49705](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/49705)
Removed support for the deprecated `getColorForTheme(color: string, theme: GrafanaTheme)` function in favor of the
`theme.visualization.getColorByName(color: string)` method. The output of this method is identical to the removed function, so migration should just be a matter of rewriting calls of `getColorForTheme(myColor, myTheme)` to `myTheme.visualization.getColorByName(myColor)`.
In the Prometheus data source, for consistency and performance reasons, we changed how we represent `NaN` (not a number) values received from Prometheus. In the past versions, we converted these to `null` in the frontend (for dashboard and explore), and kept as `NaN` in the alerting path. Starting with this version, we will always keep it as `NaN`. This change should be mostly invisible for the users. Issue [#49475](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/49475)
Plugins using custom Webpack configs could potentially break due to the changes between webpack@4 and webpack@5. Please refer to the [official migration guide](https://webpack.js.org/migrate/5/) for assistance.
Webpack 5 does not include polyfills for node.js core modules by default (e.g. `buffer`, `stream`, `os`). This can result in failed builds for plugins. If polyfills are required it is recommended to create a custom webpack config in the root of the plugin repo and add the required fallbacks:
- If the response has the `"Content-Type: application/json"` header, OR
- If the backendSrv options ([`BackendSrvRequest`](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/e237ff20a996c7313632b2e28f38032012f0e340/packages/grafana-runtime/src/services/backendSrv.ts#L8)) specify the response as JSON: `{ responseType: 'json' }`
**How does it work after this change?**
- In case it is recognised as a JSON response and the response is empty, it returns an empty object `{}`
- In case it is recognised as a JSON response and it has formatting errors, it throws an error
**How to migrate?**
Make sure to handle possible errors on the callsite where using `backendSrv.fetch()` (or any other `backendSrv` methods). Issue [#47493](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/47493)
- **Fix:** Prevent automatic parsing of string data types to numbers. [#46035](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/46035), [@joshhunt](https://github.com/joshhunt)
- **Prometheus:** Fix inconsistent labels in exemplars resulting in marshal json error. [#46135](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/46135), [@hanjm](https://github.com/hanjm)
### Breaking changes
In the Loki data source, for consistency and performance reasons, we changed how we represent `NaN` (not a number) values received from Loki. In the past versions, we converted these to `null` in the frontend (for dashboard and explore), and kept as `NaN` in the alerting path. Starting with this version, we will always keep it as `NaN`. This change should be mostly invisible for the users. Issue [#45389](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/45389)
The dependency to [grafana/aws-sdk](https://github.com/grafana/grafana-aws-sdk-react) is moved from [grafana/ui](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/main/packages/grafana-ui/package.json) to the plugin. This means that any plugin that use SIGV4 auth need to pass a SIGV4 editor component as a prop to the `DataSourceHttpSettings` component. Issue [#43559](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/43559)
- **Plugins:** Expose @emotion/react to plugins to prevent load failures. [#55297](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/55297), [@jackw](https://github.com/jackw)
### Bug fixes
- **AuthNZ:** Security fixes for CVE-2022-35957 and CVE-2022-36062. [#55495](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/55495), [@IevaVasiljeva](https://github.com/IevaVasiljeva)
- **Rendering:** Add support for renderer token (#54425). [#54438](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54438), [@joanlopez](https://github.com/joanlopez)
- **Alerting:** AlertingProxy to elevate permissions for request forwarded to data proxy when RBAC enabled. [#53681](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/53681), [@yuri-tceretian](https://github.com/yuri-tceretian)
- **Security:** Fixes for CVE-2022-31107 and CVE-2022-31097. [#52238](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52238), [@xlson](https://github.com/xlson)
- **Dashboard:** Fixes random scrolling on time range change. [#50379](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50379), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Security:** Fixes minor code scanning security warnings in old vendored javascript libs. [#50382](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50382), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Azure Monitor:** Include datasource ref when interpolating variables. [#49543](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49543), [@kevinwcyu](https://github.com/kevinwcyu)
- **CloudWatch:** Add multi-value template variable support for log group names in logs query builder. [#49737](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49737), [@kevinwcyu](https://github.com/kevinwcyu)
- **Cloudwatch:** Add template variable query function for listing log groups. [#50100](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50100), [@yaelleC](https://github.com/yaelleC)
### Bug fixes
- **Alerting:** Do not overwrite existing alert rule condition. [#49920](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49920), [@gillesdemey](https://github.com/gillesdemey)
- **Alerting:** Remove double quotes from matchers. [#50044](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50044), [@alexweav](https://github.com/alexweav)
- **Alerting:** Remove disabled flag for data source when migrating alerts. [#48559](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48559), [@yuri-tceretian](https://github.com/yuri-tceretian)
- **Alerting:** Show notification tab of legacy alerting only to editor. [#49624](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49624), [@yuri-tceretian](https://github.com/yuri-tceretian)
- **Alerting:** Update migration to migrate only alerts that belong to existing org\dashboard. [#49192](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49192), [@yuri-tceretian](https://github.com/yuri-tceretian)
- **AzureMonitor:** Do not quote variables when a custom "All" variable option is used. [#49428](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49428), [@andresmgot](https://github.com/andresmgot)
- **Cloudwatch:** Add support for new AWS/RDS EBS\* metrics. [#48798](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48798), [@szymonpk](https://github.com/szymonpk)
- **InfluxDB:** Use backend for influxDB by default via feature toggle. [#48453](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48453), [@yesoreyeram](https://github.com/yesoreyeram)
- **Legend:** Use correct unit for percent and count calculations. [#49004](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49004), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
- **LokI:** use millisecond steps in Grafana 8.5.x. [#48630](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48630), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
- **Plugins:** Introduce HTTP 207 Multi Status response to api/ds/query. [#48550](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48550), [@wbrowne](https://github.com/wbrowne)
- **Reporting:** Improve PDF file size using grid layout. (Enterprise)
- **Transformations:** Add an All Unique Values Reducer. [#48653](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48653), [@josiahg](https://github.com/josiahg)
- **Transformers:** avoid error when the ExtractFields source field is missing. [#49368](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49368), [@wardbekker](https://github.com/wardbekker)
- **[v8.5.x] Alerting:** Update migration to migrate only alerts that belong to existing org\dashboard. [#49199](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49199), [@grafanabot](https://github.com/grafanabot)
- **[v8.5.x] Reporting:** Improve PDF file size using grid layout. (Enterprise)
- **Alerting:** Apply Custom Headers to datasource queries. [#47860](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/47860), [@joeblubaugh](https://github.com/joeblubaugh)
- **Alerting:** Fix RBAC actions for notification policies. [#49185](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49185), [@yuri-tceretian](https://github.com/yuri-tceretian)
- **Alerting:** Fix access to alerts for viewer with editor permissions when RBAC is disabled. [#49270](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49270), [@yuri-tceretian](https://github.com/yuri-tceretian)
- **Alerting:** Fix anonymous access to alerting. [#49203](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49203), [@yuri-tceretian](https://github.com/yuri-tceretian)
- **Alerting:** correctly show all alerts in a folder. [#48684](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48684), [@gillesdemey](https://github.com/gillesdemey)
- **DashboardExport:** Fix exporting and importing dashboards where query data source ended up as incorrect. [#48410](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48410), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **FileUpload:** clicking the `Upload file` button now opens the modal correctly. [#48766](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48766), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **GrafanaUI:** Fix color of links in error Tooltips in light theme. [#49327](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49327), [@joshhunt](https://github.com/joshhunt)
- **LibraryPanels:** Fix library panels not connecting properly in imported dashboards. [#49161](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49161), [@joshhunt](https://github.com/joshhunt)
- **Loki:** Improve unpack parser handling. [#49074](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49074), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
- **RolePicker:** Fix menu position on smaller screens. [#48429](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48429), [@Clarity-89](https://github.com/Clarity-89)
- **TimeRange:** Fixes updating time range from url and browser history. [#48657](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48657), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Timeseries:** Fix outside range stale state. [#49633](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49633), [@ryantxu](https://github.com/ryantxu)
- **Tooltip:** Fix links not legible in Tooltips when using light theme. [#48748](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48748), [@joshhunt](https://github.com/joshhunt)
- **Tooltip:** Sort decimals using standard numeric compare. [#49084](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49084), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
- **Variables:** Fixes issue with data source variables not updating queries with variable. [#49478](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49478), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **[v8.5.x] Alerting:** Fix access to alerts for viewer with editor permissions when RBAC is disabled. [#49427](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49427), [@konrad147](https://github.com/konrad147)
- **[v8.5.x] Alerting:** Fix anonymous access to alerting. [#49268](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49268), [@yuri-tceretian](https://github.com/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)
- **Alerting:** Add safeguard for migrations that might cause dataloss. [#48526](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48526), [@JohnnyQQQQ](https://github.com/JohnnyQQQQ)
- **AzureMonitor:** Add support for not equals and startsWith operators when creating Azure Metrics dimension filters. [#48077](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48077), [@aangelisc](https://github.com/aangelisc)
- **Elasticsearch:** Add deprecation notice for <7.10versions. [#48506](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48506), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Traces:** Filter by service/span name and operation in Tempo and Jaeger. [#48209](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48209), [@joey-grafana](https://github.com/joey-grafana)
### Bug fixes
- **AzureAd Oauth:** Fix strictMode to reject users without an assigned role. [#48474](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48474), [@kyschouv](https://github.com/kyschouv)
- **CloudWatch:** Fix variable query tag migration. [#48587](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48587), [@iwysiu](https://github.com/iwysiu)
- **Azure Monitor:** Fix space character encoding for metrics query link to Azure Portal. [#48139](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48139), [@kevinwcyu](https://github.com/kevinwcyu)
- **CloudWatch:** Prevent log groups from being removed on query change. [#47994](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/47994), [@asimpson](https://github.com/asimpson)
- **Cloudwatch:** Fix template variables in variable queries. [#48140](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48140), [@iwysiu](https://github.com/iwysiu)
- **Explore:** Prevent direct access to explore if disabled via feature toggle. [#47714](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/47714), [@Elfo404](https://github.com/Elfo404)
- **InfluxDB:** Fixes invalid no data alerts. [#48295](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48295), [@yesoreyeram](https://github.com/yesoreyeram)
- **Navigation:** Prevent navbar briefly showing on login. [#47968](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/47968), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **Plugins Catalog:** Fix styling of hyperlinks. [#48196](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48196), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)
- **TimeSeries:** Properly stack series with missing datapoints. [#48321](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48321), [@leeoniya](https://github.com/leeoniya)
- **Alerting:** Add resolved count to notification title when both firing and resolved present. [#46697](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/46697), [@JacobsonMT](https://github.com/JacobsonMT)
- **Alerting:** Alert rule should wait For duration when execution error state is Alerting. [#47052](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/47052), [@grobinson-grafana](https://github.com/grobinson-grafana)
- **Alerting:** Classic conditions can now display multiple values. [#46971](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/46971), [@gotjosh](https://github.com/gotjosh)
- **Alerting:** Display query from grafana-managed alert rules on `/api/v1/rules`. [#45969](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/45969), [@gotjosh](https://github.com/gotjosh)
- **Alerting:** Enhance support for arbitrary group names in managed alerts. [#47785](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/47785), [@gillesdemey](https://github.com/gillesdemey)
- **Alerting:** add field for custom slack endpoint. [#45751](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/45751), [@nathanrodman](https://github.com/nathanrodman)
- **Azure Monitor :** Adding json formatting of error messages in Panel Header Corner and Inspect Error Tab. [#44877](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44877), [@yaelleC](https://github.com/yaelleC)
- **Azure Monitor:** Add 2 more Curated Dashboards for VM Insights. [#45187](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/45187), [@jcolladokuri](https://github.com/jcolladokuri)
- **CloudWatch:** Handle new error codes for MetricInsights. [#47033](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/47033), [@Gabrielopesantos](https://github.com/Gabrielopesantos)
- **Dashboards:** show changes in save dialog. [#46557](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/46557), [@ryantxu](https://github.com/ryantxu)
- **DataSource:** Default data source is no longer a persisted state but just the default data source for new panels. [#45132](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/45132), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **DataSourcePlugin API:** Allow queries import when changing data source type. [#47435](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/47435), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
- **Explore:** Remove return to panel button. [#45018](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/45018), [@gelicia](https://github.com/gelicia)
- **Explore:** allow users to save Explore state to a new panel in a new dashboard. [#45148](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/45148), [@Elfo404](https://github.com/Elfo404)
- **Instrumentation:** Proxy status code correction and various improvements. [#47473](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/47473), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)
- **NewsPanel:** Add support for Atom feeds. [#45390](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/45390), [@kaydelaney](https://github.com/kaydelaney)
- **Plugins:** Add deprecation notice for /api/tsdb/query endpoint. [#45238](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/45238), [@wbrowne](https://github.com/wbrowne)
- **Plugins:** Adding support for traceID field to accept variables. [#45559](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/45559), [@vinisdl](https://github.com/vinisdl)
- **PostgreSQL:** \_\_unixEpochGroup to support arithmetic expression as argument. [#46764](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/46764), [@s0nik42](https://github.com/s0nik42)
- **Profile/Help:** Expose option to disable profile section and help menu. [#46308](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/46308), [@cameronwaterman](https://github.com/cameronwaterman)
- **Prometheus:** Enable new visual query builder by default. [#46634](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/46634), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **SAML:** Allow disabling of SAML signups. [#47481](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/47481), [@mmandrus](https://github.com/mmandrus)
- **SAML:** Allow disabling of SAML signups. (Enterprise)
- **Table:** New pagination option. [#45732](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/45732), [@zoltanbedi](https://github.com/zoltanbedi)
- **Tempo / Trace Viewer:** Support Span Links in Trace Viewer. [#45632](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/45632), [@Shachi16](https://github.com/Shachi16)
- **Tempo:** Download span references in data inspector. [#47074](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/47074), [@connorlindsey](https://github.com/connorlindsey)
- **Tempo:** Separate trace to logs and loki search datasource config. [#46655](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/46655), [@connorlindsey](https://github.com/connorlindsey)
- **Trace View:** Show number of child spans. [#44393](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44393), [@tharun208](https://github.com/tharun208)
- **Transformations:** Support escaped characters in key-value pair parsing. [#47901](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/47901), [@aangelisc](https://github.com/aangelisc)
### Bug fixes
- **Azure Monitor:** Bug Fix for incorrect variable cascading for template variables. [#47478](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/47478), [@jcolladokuri](https://github.com/jcolladokuri)
- **CloudWatch:** List all metrics properly in SQL autocomplete. [#45898](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/45898), [@sunker](https://github.com/sunker)
- **CloudWatch:** Run query on blur in logs query field. [#47454](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/47454), [@fridgepoet](https://github.com/fridgepoet)
- **Dashboard:** Template variables are now correctly persisted when clicking breadcrumb links. [#46790](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/46790), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **DashboardPage:** Remember scroll position when coming back panel edit / view panel. [#47639](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/47639), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Panel Edit:** Options search now works correctly when a logarithmic scale option is set. [#47927](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/47927), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **Postgres:** Return tables with hyphenated schemes. [#45754](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/45754), [@zuchka](https://github.com/zuchka)
- **Table panel:** Fix horizontal scrolling when pagination is enabled. [#47776](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/47776), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
- **Variables:** Ensure variables in query params are correctly recognised. [#47049](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/47049), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **Visualizations:** Stack negative-valued series downwards. [#47373](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/47373), [@leeoniya](https://github.com/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](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/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](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/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](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/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.
`/api/tsdb/query` API has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Use [/api/ds/query](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/http_api/data_source/#query-a-data-source) instead. Issue [#45238](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/45238)
### Plugin development fixes & changes
- **Card:** Increase clickable area when meta items are present. [#47935](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/47935), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **Loki:** Fix operator description propup from being shortened. [#46575](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/46575), [@glintik](https://github.com/glintik)
- **Tooltips:** Make tooltips non interactive by default. [#45053](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/45053), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- Add config option to enable/disable reporting. (Enterprise)
- **Alerting:** Accurately set value for prom-compatible APIs. [#47216](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/47216), [@gotjosh](https://github.com/gotjosh)
- **Alerting:** Provisioning API - Notification Policies. [#46755](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/46755), [@alexweav](https://github.com/alexweav)
- **Analytics:** Enable grafana and plugin update checks to be operated independently. [#46352](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/46352), [@wbrowne](https://github.com/wbrowne)
- **Azure Monitor:** Add support for multiple template variables in resource picker. [#46215](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/46215), [@sarahzinger](https://github.com/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](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/47189), [@joshhunt](https://github.com/joshhunt)
- **OAuth:** Sync GitHub OAuth user name to Grafana if it's set. [#45438](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/45438), [@pallxk](https://github.com/pallxk)
### Bug fixes
- **Plugins:** Fix Default Nav URL for dashboard includes. [#47143](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/47143), [@wbrowne](https://github.com/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](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/45438)
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](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/45132)
- **Rendering:** Add support for renderer token (#54425). [#54437](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54437), [@joanlopez](https://github.com/joanlopez)
- **Security:** Fixes for CVE-2022-31107 and CVE-2022-31097. [#52218](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52218), [@IevaVasiljeva](https://github.com/IevaVasiljeva)
- **Histogram Panel:** Take decimal into consideration. [#47330](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/47330), [@mdvictor](https://github.com/mdvictor)
- **TimeSeries:** Sort tooltip values based on raw values. [#46738](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/46738), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
### Bug fixes
- **API:** Include userId, orgId, uname in request logging middleware. [#47183](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/47183), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)
- **Security:** Fixes CVE-2022-24812. For more information, see our [blog](https://grafana.com/blog/2022/04/12/grafana-enterprise-8.4.6-released-with-high-severity-security-fix/)
- **Instrumentation:** Make backend plugin metrics endpoints available with optional authentication. [#46467](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/46467), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)
- **Table panel:** Show datalinks for cell display modes JSON View and Gauge derivates. [#46020](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/46020), [@mdvictor](https://github.com/mdvictor)
### Bug fixes
- **Azure Monitor:** Small bug fixes for Resource Picker. [#46665](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/46665), [@sarahzinger](https://github.com/sarahzinger)
- **Logger:** Use specified format for file logger. [#46970](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/46970), [@sakjur](https://github.com/sakjur)
- **Logs:** Handle missing fields in dataframes better. [#46963](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/46963), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
- **ManageDashboards:** Fix error when deleting all dashboards from folder view. [#46877](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/46877), [@joshhunt](https://github.com/joshhunt)
- **Loki:** Add unpack to autocomplete suggestions (#44623). [#46573](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/46573), [@glintik](https://github.com/glintik)
- **Plugins:** allow using both Function and Class components for app plugins. [#46148](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/46148), [@leventebalogh](https://github.com/leventebalogh)
- **TimeSeries:** Add migration for Graph panel's transform series override. [#46577](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/46577), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
- **TimeSeries:** Preserve null/undefined values when performing negative y transform. [#46584](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/46584), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
### Bug fixes
- **CloudWatch:** Use default http client from aws-sdk-go. [#46370](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/46370), [@sunker](https://github.com/sunker)
- **Dashboards:** Fixes repeating by row and no refresh. [#46565](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/46565), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Gauge:** Fixes blank viz when data link exists and orientation was horizontal. [#46335](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/46335), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Search:** sort results correctly when using postgres. [#46466](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/46466), [@xlson](https://github.com/xlson)
- **TextPanel:** Sanitize after markdown has been rendered to html. [#46166](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/46166), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **Alerting:** Grafana uses > instead of >= when checking the For duration. [#46010](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/46010)
- **Alerting:** Use expanded labels in dashboard annotations. [#45726](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/45726), [@grobinson-grafana](https://github.com/grobinson-grafana)
- **Logs:** Escape windows newline into single newline. [#45771](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/45771), [@perosb](https://github.com/perosb)
### Bug fixes
- **Alerting:** Fix use of > instead of >= when checking the For duration. [#46011](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/46011), [@grobinson-grafana](https://github.com/grobinson-grafana)
- **Azure Monitor:** Fixes broken log queries that use workspace. [#45820](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/45820), [@sunker](https://github.com/sunker)
- **CloudWatch:** Remove error message when using multi-valued template vars in region field. [#45886](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/45886), [@sunker](https://github.com/sunker)
- **ClipboardButton:** Use a fallback when the Clipboard API is unavailable. [#45831](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/45831), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **OAuth:** Add setting to skip org assignment for external users. [#34834](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34834), [@baez90](https://github.com/baez90)
- **Tracing:** Add option to map tag names to log label names in trace to logs settings. [#45178](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/45178), [@connorlindsey](https://github.com/connorlindsey)
### Bug fixes
- **Explore:** Fix closing split pane when logs panel is used. [#45602](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/45602), [@ifrost](https://github.com/ifrost)
- **Cloudwatch:** Add support for AWS/PrivateLink\* metrics and dimensions. [#45515](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/45515), [@szymonpk](https://github.com/szymonpk)
- **Configuration:** Add ability to customize okta login button name and icon. [#44079](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44079), [@DanCech](https://github.com/DanCech)
- **Tempo:** Switch out Select with AsyncSelect component to get loading state in Tempo Search. [#45110](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/45110), [@CatPerry](https://github.com/CatPerry)
### Bug fixes
- **Alerting:** Fix migrations by making send_alerts_to field nullable. [#45572](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/45572), [@santihernandezc](https://github.com/santihernandezc)
- **API:** Extract OpenAPI specification from source code using go-swagger. [#40528](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40528), [@papagian](https://github.com/papagian)
- **AccessControl:** Disable user remove and user update roles when they do not have the permissions. [#43429](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43429), [@Jguer](https://github.com/Jguer)
- **AccessControl:** Provisioning for teams. [#43767](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43767), [@gamab](https://github.com/gamab)
- **Alerting:** Move slow queries in the scheduler to another goroutine. [#44423](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44423), [@grobinson-grafana](https://github.com/grobinson-grafana)
- **Alerting:** Use time.Ticker instead of alerting.Ticker in ngalert. [#44395](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44395), [@grobinson-grafana](https://github.com/grobinson-grafana)
- **Alerting:** add custom grouping to Alert Panel. [#44559](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44559), [@gillesdemey](https://github.com/gillesdemey)
- **Analytics:** Add user id tracking to google analytics. [#42763](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42763), [@autoric](https://github.com/autoric)
- **Angular:** Add AngularJS plugin support deprecation plan to docs site. [#45149](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/45149), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Auth:** implement auto_sign_up for auth.jwt. [#43502](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43502), [@sakjur](https://github.com/sakjur)
- **Azure Monitor Logs:** Order subscriptions in resource picker by name. [#45228](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/45228), [@sunker](https://github.com/sunker)
- **Azure monitor Logs:** Optimize data fetching in resource picker. [#44549](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44549), [@sunker](https://github.com/sunker)
- **AzureMonitor:** Filter list of resources by resourceType. [#43522](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43522), [@andresmgot](https://github.com/andresmgot)
- **BarChart:** color by field, x time field, bar radius, label skipping. [#43257](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43257), [@leeoniya](https://github.com/leeoniya)
- **Chore:** Implement OpenTelemetry in Grafana. [#42674](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42674), [@idafurjes](https://github.com/idafurjes)
- **Cloud Monitoring:** Adds metric type to Metric drop down options. [#43268](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43268), [@tw1nk](https://github.com/tw1nk)
- **CloudWatch:** Add Data Lifecycle Manager metrics and dimension. [#43310](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43310), [@ilyastoli](https://github.com/ilyastoli)
- **CloudWatch:** Add all ElastiCache Redis Metrics. [#43336](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43336), [@siavashs](https://github.com/siavashs)
- **CloudWatch:** Add new AWS/ES metrics. [#43034](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43034), [@sunker](https://github.com/sunker)
- **Cloudwatch:** Add syntax highlighting and autocomplete for "Metric Search". [#43985](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43985), [@sarahzinger](https://github.com/sarahzinger)
- **Explore:** Support custom display label for exemplar links for Prometheus datasource. [#42732](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42732), [@JokerQueue](https://github.com/JokerQueue)
- **Hotkeys:** Make time range absolute/permanent. [#43802](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43802), [@davkal](https://github.com/davkal)
- **Playlists:** Enable sharing direct links to playlists. [#44161](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44161), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **SSE:** Add Mode to drop NaN/Inf/Null in Reduction operations. [#43583](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43583), [@kylebrandt](https://github.com/kylebrandt)
- **Setting:** Support configuring feature toggles with bools instead of just passing an array. [#43326](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43326), [@bergquist](https://github.com/bergquist)
- **TimeSeries:** Add support for negative Y and constant transform. [#44774](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44774), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
- **Transformations:** Add 'JSON' field type to ConvertFieldTypeTransformer. [#42624](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42624), [@sd2k](https://github.com/sd2k)
### Bug fixes
- **Auth:** Guarantee consistency of signed SigV4 headers. [#45054](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/45054), [@wbrowne](https://github.com/wbrowne)
- **CloudWatch:** Fix MetricName resetting on Namespace change. [#44165](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44165), [@yaelleC](https://github.com/yaelleC)
- **Cloudwatch :** Fixed resetting metric name when changing namespace in Metric Query. [#44612](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44612), [@yaelleC](https://github.com/yaelleC)
- **Explore:** Avoid locking timepicker when range is inverted. [#44790](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44790), [@Elfo404](https://github.com/Elfo404)
- **LibraryPanels:** Prevent long descriptions and names from obscuring the delete button. [#45190](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/45190), [@zuchka](https://github.com/zuchka)
- **OAuth:** Fix parsing of ID token if header contains non-string value. [#44159](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44159), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)
- **Panel Edit:** Visualization search now works correctly with special characters. [#45137](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/45137), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **Provisioning:** Fix duplicate validation when multiple organizations have been configured. [#44151](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44151), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)
- **QueryField:** Fix issue with undo history when suggestion is inserted (#28656). [#39114](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39114), [@glintik](https://github.com/glintik)
- **TablePanel:** Do not prefix columns with frame name if multiple frames and override active. [#45174](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/45174), [@mdvictor](https://github.com/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](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/next/developers/angular_deprecation/) with more details on why, when, and how. Issue [#45149](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/45149)
- **Alerting:** Support WeCom as a contact point type. [#40975](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40975), [@smallpath](https://github.com/smallpath)
- **Alerting:** UI for mute timings. [#41578](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41578), [@nathanrodman](https://github.com/nathanrodman)
- **Alerting:** add settings for peer reconnection in HA mode. [#42300](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42300), [@JohnnyQQQQ](https://github.com/JohnnyQQQQ)
- **Auth:** implement auto_sign_up for auth.jwt. [#37040](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37040), [@Roguelazer](https://github.com/Roguelazer)
- **Dashboard:** Add Show unknown variables toggle to dashboard settings. [#41854](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41854), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
- **Instrumentation:** Logger migration from log15 to gokit/log. [#41636](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41636), [@ying-jeanne](https://github.com/ying-jeanne)
- **MSSQL:** Configuration of certificate verification for TLS connection. [#31865](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/31865), [@mortenaa](https://github.com/mortenaa)
- **Middleware:** Don't require HTTPS for HSTS headers to be emitted. [#35147](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35147), [@alexmv](https://github.com/alexmv)
- **News:** Reload feed when changing the time range or refreshing. [#42217](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42217), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **UI/Plot:** Implement keyboard controls for plot cursor. [#42244](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42244), [@kaydelaney](https://github.com/kaydelaney)
- **Rendering:** Add support for renderer token (#54425). [#54436](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54436), [@joanlopez](https://github.com/joanlopez)
- **Provisioning:** Ensure that the default value for orgID is set when provisioning datasources to be deleted. [#44244](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44244), [@filewalkwithme](https://github.com/filewalkwithme)
- **Explore:** Show scalar data result in a table instead of graph. [#44362](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44362), [@tharun208](https://github.com/tharun208)
- **Snapshots:** Updates the default external snapshot server URL. [#44563](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44563), [@DanCech](https://github.com/DanCech)
- **Table:** Makes footer not overlap table content. [#44210](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44210), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
- **Tempo:** Add request histogram to service graph datalink. [#44671](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44671), [@connorlindsey](https://github.com/connorlindsey)
- **Tempo:** Add time range to tempo search query behind a feature flag. [#43811](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43811), [@connorlindsey](https://github.com/connorlindsey)
- **Tempo:** Auto-clear results when changing query type. [#44390](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44390), [@connorlindsey](https://github.com/connorlindsey)
- **Tempo:** Display start time in search results as relative time. [#44568](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44568), [@tharun208](https://github.com/tharun208)
### Bug fixes
- **CloudMonitoring:** Fix resource labels in query editor. [#44550](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44550), [@iwysiu](https://github.com/iwysiu)
- **Cursor sync:** Apply the settings without saving the dashboard. [#44270](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44270), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
- **LibraryPanels:** Fix for Error while cleaning library panels. [#45033](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/45033), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
- **Logs Panel:** fix timestamp parsing for string dates without timezone. [#44664](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44664), [@Elfo404](https://github.com/Elfo404)
- **Prometheus:** Fix some of the alerting queries that use reduce/math operation. [#44380](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44380), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **TablePanel:** Fix ad-hoc variables not working on default datasources. [#44314](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44314), [@joshhunt](https://github.com/joshhunt)
- **Text Panel:** Fix alignment of elements. [#44313](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44313), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **Variables:** Fix for constant variables in self referencing links. [#44631](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44631), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
- **Security**: Fixes CVE-2022-21702. For more information, see our [blog](https://grafana.com/blog/2022/02/08/grafana-7.5.15-and-8.3.5-released-with-moderate-severity-security-fixes/)
- **Security**: Fixes CVE-2022-21703. For more information, see our [blog](https://grafana.com/blog/2022/02/08/grafana-7.5.15-and-8.3.5-released-with-moderate-severity-security-fixes/)
- **Security**: Fixes CVE-2022-21713. For more information, see our [blog](https://grafana.com/blog/2022/02/08/grafana-7.5.15-and-8.3.5-released-with-moderate-severity-security-fixes/)
- **Alerting:** Allow configuration of non-ready alertmanagers. [#43063](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43063), [@alexweav](https://github.com/alexweav)
- **Alerting:** Allow customization of Google chat message. [#43568](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43568), [@alexweav](https://github.com/alexweav)
- **Alerting:** Allow customization of Google chat message (#43568). [#43723](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43723), [@alexweav](https://github.com/alexweav)
- **AppPlugins:** Support app plugins with only default nav. [#43016](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43016), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Postgres/MySQL/MSSQL:** Cancel in-flight SQL query if user cancels query in grafana. [#43890](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43890), [@mdvictor](https://github.com/mdvictor)
- **CloudMonitoring:** Fixes broken variable queries that use group bys. [#43914](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43914), [@sunker](https://github.com/sunker)
- **Configuration:** You can now see your expired API keys if you have no active ones. [#42452](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42452), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **Elasticsearch:** Fix handling multiple datalinks for a single field. [#44029](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44029), [@Elfo404](https://github.com/Elfo404)
- **Export:** Fix error being thrown when exporting dashboards using query variables that reference the default datasource. [#44034](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44034), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **ImportDashboard:** Fixes issue with importing dashboard and name ending up in uid. [#43451](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43451), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Login:** Page no longer overflows on mobile. [#43739](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43739), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **Plugins:** Set backend metadata property for core plugins. [#43349](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43349), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)
- **Prometheus:** Fill missing steps with null values. [#43622](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43622), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Prometheus:** Interpolate variables with curly brackets syntax. [#42927](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42927), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Prometheus:** Respect the http-method data source setting. [#42753](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42753), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
- **Table:** Fixes issue with field config applied to wrong fields when hiding columns. [#43376](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43376), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Toolkit:** Fix bug with rootUrls not being properly parsed when signing a private plugin. [#43014](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43014), [@dessen-xu](https://github.com/dessen-xu)
- **Variables:** Fix so data source variables are added to adhoc configuration. [#43881](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43881), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
### Plugin development fixes & changes
- **Toolkit:** Revert build config so tslib is bundled with plugins to prevent plugins from crashing. [#43556](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43556), [@mckn](https://github.com/mckn)
- **BarChart:** Use new data error view component to show actions in panel edit. [#42474](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42474), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **CloudMonitor:** Iterate over pageToken for resources. [#42546](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42546), [@iwysiu](https://github.com/iwysiu)
- **AnnoListPanel:** Fix interpolation of variables in tags. [#42318](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42318), [@francoisdtm](https://github.com/francoisdtm)
- **CloudWatch:** Allow queries to have no dimensions specified. [#42800](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42800), [@sunker](https://github.com/sunker)
- **CloudWatch:** Fix broken queries for users migrating from 8.2.4/8.2.5 to 8.3.0. [#42611](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42611), [@sunker](https://github.com/sunker)
- **CloudWatch:** Make sure MatchExact flag gets the right value. [#42621](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42621), [@sunker](https://github.com/sunker)
- **Dashboards:** Fix so that empty folders can be deleted from the manage dashboards/folders page. [#42527](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42527), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **InfluxDB:** Improve handling of metadata query errors in InfluxQL. [#42500](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42500), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
- **Loki:** Fix adding of ad hoc filters for queries with parser and line_format expressions. [#42590](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42590), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Prometheus:** Fix running of exemplar queries for non-histogram metrics. [#42749](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42749), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Prometheus:** Interpolate template variables in interval. [#42637](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42637), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **StateTimeline:** Fix toolitp not showing when for frames with multiple fields. [#42741](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42741), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
- **TraceView:** Fix virtualized scrolling when trace view is opened in right pane in Explore. [#42480](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42480), [@autoric](https://github.com/autoric)
- **Variables:** Fix repeating panels for on time range changed variables. [#42828](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42828), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
- **Variables:** Fix so queryparam option works for scoped variables. [#42742](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42742), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
- **Security**: Fixes CVE-2021-43813 and CVE-2021-43815. For more information, see our [blog](https://grafana.com/blog/2021/12/10/grafana-8.3.2-and-7.5.12-released-with-moderate-severity-security-fix/
- **Security**: Fixes CVE-2021-43798. For more information, see our [blog](https://grafana.com/blog/2021/12/07/grafana-8.3.1-8.2.7-8.1.8-and-8.0.7-released-with-high-severity-security-fix/)
- **Alerting:** Prevent folders from being deleted when they contain alerts. [#42307](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42307), [@peterholmberg](https://github.com/peterholmberg)
- **Alerting:** Show full preview value in tooltip. [#42445](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42445), [@peterholmberg](https://github.com/peterholmberg)
- **BarGauge:** Limit title width when name is really long. [#42346](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42346), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **CloudMonitoring:** Avoid to escape regexps in filters. [#41961](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41961), [@andresmgot](https://github.com/andresmgot)
- **CloudWatch:** Add support for AWS Metric Insights. [#42487](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42487), [@sunker](https://github.com/sunker)
- **TooltipPlugin:** Remove other panels' shared tooltip in edit panel. [#42187](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42187), [@mdvictor](https://github.com/mdvictor)
- **Visualizations:** Limit y label width to 40% of visualization width. [#42350](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42350), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Prometheus:** Fix range variables interpolation for time ranges smaller than 1 second. [#42242](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42242), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **ValueMappings:** Fixes issue with regex value mapping that only sets color. [#42311](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42311), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Alerting:** Make Unified Alerting enabled by default for those who do not use legacy alerting. [#42200](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42200), [@armandgrillet](https://github.com/armandgrillet)
- **Alerting:** Support mute timings configuration through the api for the embedded alert manager. [#41533](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41533), [@JohnnyQQQQ](https://github.com/JohnnyQQQQ)
- **Docs:** Add easier to find deprecation notices to certain data sources and to the changelog. [#41938](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41938), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
- **Plugins Catalog:** Enable install controls based on the pluginAdminEnabled flag. [#41686](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41686), [@leventebalogh](https://github.com/leventebalogh)
- **Query caching:** Increase max_value_mb default to 10. (Enterprise)
- **Table:** Add space between values for the DefaultCell. [#42246](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42246), [@kirederik](https://github.com/kirederik)
- **Table:** Add space between values on JSONViewCell. [#42156](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42156), [@kirederik](https://github.com/kirederik)
- **Tracing:** Make query editors available in dashboard for Tempo and Zipkin. [#41974](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41974), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Azure Monitor:** Add trap focus for modals in grafana/ui and other small a11y fixes for Azure Monitor. [#41449](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41449), [@sarahzinger](https://github.com/sarahzinger)
- **CodeEditor:** Prevent suggestions from being clipped. [#42120](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42120), [@kaydelaney](https://github.com/kaydelaney)
- **Datasource:** Fix stable sort order of query responses. [#41868](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41868), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)
- **Explore:** Fix error in query history when removing last item. [#42179](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42179), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
- **Logs:** Fix requesting of older logs when flipped order. [#41966](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41966), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Prometheus:** Fix running of health check query based on access mode. [#42189](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42189), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **TextPanel:** Fix suggestions for existing panels. [#42195](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42195), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
- **Tracing:** Fix incorrect indentations due to reoccurring spanIDs. [#41919](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41919), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Tracing:** Show start time of trace with milliseconds precision. [#42132](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42132), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Variables:** Make renamed or missing variable section expandable. [#41964](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41964), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
### Breaking changes
### Grafana 8 Alerting enabled by default for installations that do not use legacy alerting
Starting with Grafana v8.3.0, if you have **not** explicitly disabled unified alerting and **do not** have legacy alerts set up you are automatically "migrated" to Grafana 8 Alerting.
A migration **from legacy to Grafana 8 Alerting** will never incur a data loss, as the previous data is kept around for rollback purposes. However, going from **Grafana 8 Alerting to legacy alerting** will delete all the data created for Grafana 8 Alerting. It is recommended that you **backup your database** before attempting a migration between systems.
If unclear, please verify the table below:
| `[alerting][enabled]` | `[unified_alerting][enabled]` | With Existing Legacy Alerts | Result |
### Keep Last State for "If execution error or timeout" when upgrading to Grafana 8 alerting
In Grafana 8.3.0-beta2 we changed how alert rules that use `Keep Last State` for `If execution error or timeout` are upgraded from Legacy Alerting to Grafana 8 alerting. In 8.3.0-beta1 and earlier, alert rules with `Keep Last State` for `If execution error or timeout` were changed to `Alerting` when upgrading from Legacy Alerting to Grafana 8 alerting. However, in 8.3.0-beta2 these alert rules are now upgraded to a new option called `Error`. With this option, on encountering an error evaluating an alert rule, Grafana creates a special alert called `DatasourceError` with the `rule_uid` and `ref_id` as labels and an annotation called `Error` with the error message. Issue [#41869](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/41869)
### Deprecations
The access mode "browser" is deprecated in the following data sources and will be removed in a later release:
- **Alerting:** Add UI for contact point testing with custom annotations and labels. [#40491](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40491), [@nathanrodman](https://github.com/nathanrodman)
- **Alerting:** Make alert state indicator in panel header work with Grafana 8 alerts. [#38713](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38713), [@domasx2](https://github.com/domasx2)
- **Alerting:** Option for Discord notifier to use webhook name. [#40463](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40463), [@Skyebold](https://github.com/Skyebold)
- **Auth:** Omit all base64 paddings in JWT tokens for the JWT auth. [#35602](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35602), [@gillg](https://github.com/gillg)
- **Azure Monitor:** Clean up fields when editing Metrics. [#41762](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41762), [@andresmgot](https://github.com/andresmgot)
- **AzureMonitor:** Add new starter dashboards. [#39876](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39876), [@jcolladokuri](https://github.com/jcolladokuri)
- **AzureMonitor:** Add starter dashboard for app monitoring with Application Insights. [#40725](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40725), [@jcolladokuri](https://github.com/jcolladokuri)
- **Barchart/Time series:** Allow x axis label. [#41142](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41142), [@oscarkilhed](https://github.com/oscarkilhed)
- **CLI:** Improve error handling for installing plugins. [#41257](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41257), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)
- **CloudMonitoring:** Migrate to use backend plugin SDK contracts. [#38650](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38650), [@idafurjes](https://github.com/idafurjes)
- **CloudWatch Logs:** Add retry strategy for hitting max concurrent queries. [#39290](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39290), [@aocenas](https://github.com/aocenas)
- **CloudWatch:** Add AWS RoboMaker metrics and dimension. [#41450](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41450), [@ilyastoli](https://github.com/ilyastoli)
- **CloudWatch:** Add AWS Transfer metrics and dimension. [#41168](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41168), [@ilyastoli](https://github.com/ilyastoli)
- **Dashboard:** replace datasource name with a reference object. [#33817](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33817), [@ryantxu](https://github.com/ryantxu)
- **Dashboards:** Show logs on time series when hovering. [#40110](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40110), [@ryantxu](https://github.com/ryantxu)
- **Elasticsearch:** Add support for Elasticsearch 8.0 (Beta). [#41729](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41729), [@Elfo404](https://github.com/Elfo404)
- **Elasticsearch:** Add time zone setting to Date Histogram aggregation. [#40882](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40882), [@Elfo404](https://github.com/Elfo404)
- **Elasticsearch:** Enable full range log volume histogram. [#41202](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41202), [@ifrost](https://github.com/ifrost)
- **Elasticsearch:** Full range logs volume. [#40700](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40700), [@ifrost](https://github.com/ifrost)
- **Explore:** Allow changing the graph type. [#40522](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40522), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
- **Explore:** Show ANSI colors when highlighting matched words in the logs panel. [#40971](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40971), [@oliverfrye](https://github.com/oliverfrye)
- **Graph(old) panel:** Listen to events from Time series panel. [#41033](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41033), [@zoltanbedi](https://github.com/zoltanbedi)
- **Import:** Load gcom dashboards from URL. [#41799](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41799), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **LibraryPanels:** Improves export and import of library panels between orgs. [#39214](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39214), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
- **OAuth:** Support PKCE. [#39948](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39948), [@sakjur](https://github.com/sakjur)
- **Panel edit:** Overrides now highlight correctly when searching. [#41684](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41684), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **PanelEdit:** Display drag indicators on draggable sections. [#41711](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41711), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **Prometheus:** Remove limits on metrics, labels, and values in Metrics Browser. [#40660](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40660), [@autoric](https://github.com/autoric)
- **StateTimeline:** Share cursor with rest of the panels. [#41038](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41038), [@zoltanbedi](https://github.com/zoltanbedi)
- **Tempo:** Add filtering for service graph query. [#41162](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41162), [@aocenas](https://github.com/aocenas)
- **Tempo:** Add links to nodes in Service Graph pointing to Prometheus metrics. [#41135](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41135), [@aocenas](https://github.com/aocenas)
- **Time series/Bar chart panel:** Add ability to sort series via legend. [#40226](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40226), [@zoltanbedi](https://github.com/zoltanbedi)
- **TimeSeries:** Allow multiple axes for the same unit. [#41635](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41635), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
- **TraceView:** Allow span links defined on dataFrame. [#40563](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40563), [@aocenas](https://github.com/aocenas)
- **Transformations:** Support a rows mode in labels to fields. [#41020](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41020), [@ryantxu](https://github.com/ryantxu)
- **ValueMappings:** Don't apply field config defaults to time fields. [#41132](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41132), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Variables:** Only update panels that are impacted by variable change. [#39420](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39420), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
### Bug fixes
- **API:** Fix dashboard quota limit for imports. [#41495](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41495), [@yangkb09](https://github.com/yangkb09)
- **Alerting:** Fix rule editor issues with Azure Monitor data source. [#41317](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41317), [@domasx2](https://github.com/domasx2)
- **Azure monitor:** Make sure alert rule editor is not enabled when template variables are being used. [#41335](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41335), [@sunker](https://github.com/sunker)
- **CodeEditor:** Trigger the latest getSuggestions() passed to CodeEditor. [#40544](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40544), [@DukeManh](https://github.com/DukeManh)
- **Dashboard:** Remove the current panel from the list of options in the Dashboard datasource. [#41826](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41826), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **Encryption:** Fix decrypting secrets in alerting migration. [#41061](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41061), [@undef1nd](https://github.com/undef1nd)
- **InfluxDB:** Fix corner case where index is too large in ALIAS field. [#41562](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41562), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
- **NavBar:** Order App plugins alphabetically. [#40078](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40078), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **NodeGraph:** Fix zooming sensitivity on touchpads. [#40718](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40718), [@aocenas](https://github.com/aocenas)
- **Security**: Fixes CVE-2021-43798. For more information, see our [blog](https://grafana.com/blog/2021/12/07/grafana-8.3.1-8.2.7-8.1.8-and-8.0.7-released-with-high-severity-security-fix/)
- **Alerting:** Fix a bug where the metric in the evaluation string was not correctly populated. [#41731](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41731), [@JohnnyQQQQ](https://github.com/JohnnyQQQQ)
- **Alerting:** Fix no data behaviour in Legacy Alerting for alert rules using the AND operator. [#41305](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41305), [@gerobinson](https://github.com/gerobinson)
- **CloudMonitoring:** Ignore min and max aggregation in MQL queries. [#41302](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41302), [@sunker](https://github.com/sunker)
- **Dashboards:** 'Copy' is no longer added to new dashboard titles. [#41344](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41344), [@joshhunt](https://github.com/joshhunt)
- **DataProxy:** Fix overriding response body when response is a WebSocket upgrade. [#41364](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41364), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)
- **Elasticsearch:** Use field configured in query editor as field for date_histogram aggregations. [#41258](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41258), [@Elfo404](https://github.com/Elfo404)
- **Explore:** Fix running queries without a datasource property set. [#40805](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40805), [@Elfo404](https://github.com/Elfo404)
- **InfluxDB:** Fix numeric aliases in queries. [#41531](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41531), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
- **Plugins:** Ensure consistent plugin settings list response. [#41346](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41346), [@wbrowne](https://github.com/wbrowne)
- **Tempo:** Fix validation of float durations. [#41400](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41400), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Tracing:** Correct tags for each span are shown. [#41473](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41473), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
In Grafana 8.2.5 and later, this change fixes a bug in the evaluation of alert rules when using the AND operator to compare two or more conditions. In Grafana 8.2.4 and earlier such alert rules would evaluate to `OK` if at least one, but not all, conditions returned no data. This change fixes that bug such that in Grafana 8.2.5 these alert rules now evaluate to `No Data`.
If an alert should evaluate to `OK` when one or all conditions return `No Data` then this can be done via changing `If no data or all values are null` to `OK`. However, this will not preserve the old behaviour in 8.2.4 where an alert will be `OK` if at least one, but not all, conditions return no data and then `No Data` if all conditions return `No Data`. Issue [#41305](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/41305)
- **Security**: Fixes CVE-2021-41244. For more information, see our [blog](https://grafana.com/blog/2021/11/15/grafana-8.2.4-released-with-security-fixes/)
- **Security**: Fixes CVE-2021-41174. For more information, see our [blog](https://grafana.com/blog/2021/11/03/grafana-8.2.3-released-with-medium-severity-security-fix-cve-2021-41174-grafana-xss/)
- **Annotations:** We have improved tag search performance. [#40567](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40567), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **Application:** You can now configure an error-template title. [#40310](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40310), [@benrubson](https://github.com/benrubson)
- **AzureMonitor:** We removed a restriction from the resource filter query. [#40690](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40690), [@andresmgot](https://github.com/andresmgot)
- **Caching:** Make cache size metric collection optional. (Enterprise)
- **Packaging:** We removed the ProcSubset option in systemd. This option prevented Grafana from starting in LXC environments. [#40339](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40339), [@kminehart](https://github.com/kminehart)
- **Prometheus:** We removed the autocomplete limit for metrics. [#39363](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39363), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Request interceptor:** Allow MSSQL's named instances. (Enterprise)
- **Table:** We improved the styling of the type icons to make them more distinct from column / field name. [#40596](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40596), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **ValueMappings:** You can now use value mapping in stat, gauge, bar gauge, and pie chart visualizations. [#40612](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40612), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
### Bug fixes
- **Alerting:** Fix panic when Slack's API sends unexpected response. [#40721](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40721), [@santihernandezc](https://github.com/santihernandezc)
- **Alerting:** The Create Alert button now appears on the dashboard panel when you are working with a default datasource. [#40334](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40334), [@domasx2](https://github.com/domasx2)
- **Explore:** We fixed the problem where the Explore log panel disappears when an Elasticsearch logs query returns no results. [#40217](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40217), [@Elfo404](https://github.com/Elfo404)
- **Graph:** You can now see annotation descriptions on hover. [#40581](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40581), [@axelavargas](https://github.com/axelavargas)
- **Logs:** The system now uses the JSON parser only if the line is parsed to an object. [#40507](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40507), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Prometheus:** We fixed the issue where the system did not reuse TCP connections when querying from Grafana Alerting. [#40349](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40349), [@kminehart](https://github.com/kminehart)
- **Prometheus:** We fixed the problem that resulted in an error when a user created a query with a\$\_\_intervalmin step. [#40525](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40525), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **RowsToFields:** We fixed the issue where the system was not properly interpreting number values. [#40580](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40580), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Scale:** We fixed how the system handles NaN percent when data min = data max. [#40622](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40622), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Table panel:** You can now create a filter that includes special characters. [#40458](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40458), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
- **Dashboard:** Fix rendering of repeating panels. [#39991](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39991), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
- **Datasources:** Fix deletion of data source if plugin is not found. [#40095](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40095), [@jackw](https://github.com/jackw)
- **Packaging:** Remove systemcallfilters sections from systemd unit files. [#40176](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40176), [@kminehart](https://github.com/kminehart)
- **Prometheus:** Add Headers to HTTP client options. [#40214](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40214), [@dsotirakis](https://github.com/dsotirakis)
- **Alerting:** Added support Alertmanager data source for upstream Prometheus AM implementation. [#39775](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39775), [@domasx2](https://github.com/domasx2)
- **Alerting:** Allows more characters in label names so notifications are sent. [#38629](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38629), [@gotjosh](https://github.com/gotjosh)
- **Alerting:** Get alert rules for a dashboard or a panel using /api/v1/rules endpoints. [#39476](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39476), [@gerobinson](https://github.com/gerobinson)
- **Annotations:** Improved rendering performance of event markers. [#39984](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39984), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **CloudWatch Logs:** Skip caching for log queries. [#39860](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39860), [@aocenas](https://github.com/aocenas)
- **Explore:** Added an opt-in configuration for Node Graph in Jaeger, Zipkin, and Tempo. [#39958](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39958), [@connorlindsey](https://github.com/connorlindsey)
- **Prometheus:** Metrics browser can now handle label values with special characters. [#39713](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39713), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
### Bug fixes
- **CodeEditor:** Ensure that we trigger the latest onSave callback provided to the component. [#39835](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39835), [@mckn](https://github.com/mckn)
- **DashboardList/AlertList:** Fix for missing All folder value. [#39772](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39772), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
#### Potential failure to start in Ubuntu 18.04 / Debian 9 / CentOS
- In Grafana v8.2.0, this change can prevent the `grafana-server` service from starting on older versions of systemd, present on Ubuntu 18.04 and slightly older versions of Debian. If running one of those versions, please wait until v8.2.1 is released before upgrading. If you still want to upgrade or have already ugpraded, a simple fix is available here: https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/40162#issuecomment-938060240 Issue [#38109](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/38109)
- **AccessControl:** Document new permissions restricting data source access. [#39091](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39091), [@gamab](https://github.com/gamab)
- **TimePicker:** Add fiscal years and search to time picker. [#39073](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39073), [@oscarkilhed](https://github.com/oscarkilhed)
- **Alerting:** Added support for Unified Alerting with Grafana HA. [#37920](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37920), [@gotjosh](https://github.com/gotjosh)
- **Alerting:** Added support for tune rule evaluation using configuration options. [#35623](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35623), [@papagian](https://github.com/papagian)
- **Alerting:** Cleanups alertmanager namespace from key-value store when disabling Grafana 8 alerts. [#39554](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39554), [@papagian](https://github.com/papagian)
- **Alerting:** Remove `ngalert` feature toggle and introduce two new settings for enabling Grafana 8 alerts and disabling them for specific organisations. [#38746](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38746), [@papagian](https://github.com/papagian)
- **CloudWatch:** Introduced new math expression where it is necessary to specify the period field. [#39458](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39458), [@sunker](https://github.com/sunker)
- **InfluxDB:** Added support for $\_\_interval and $\_\_interval_ms in Flux queries for alerting. [#38889](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38889), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
- **InfluxDB:** Flux queries can use more precise start and end timestamps with nanosecond-precision. [#39415](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39415), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
- **Plugins Catalog:** Make the catalog the default way to interact with plugins. [#39779](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39779), [@leventebalogh](https://github.com/leventebalogh)
- **Prometheus:** Removed autocomplete limit for metrics. [#39363](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39363), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
### Bug fixes
- **Alerting:** Fixed an issue where the edit page crashes if you tried to preview an alert without a condition set. [#39659](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39659), [@peterholmberg](https://github.com/peterholmberg)
- **Alerting:** Fixed the silence file content generated during migration. [#39557](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39557), [@papagian](https://github.com/papagian)
- **Analytics:** Fixed an issue related to interaction event propagation in Azure Application Insights. [#39752](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39752), [@sunker](https://github.com/sunker)
- **BarGauge:** Fixed an issue where the cell color was lit even though there was no data. [#39574](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39574), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **BarGauge:** Improved handling of streaming data. [#39737](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39737), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **Dashboard:** Add option to generate short URL for variables with values containing spaces. [#39552](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39552), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
- Fixed an issue that produced State timeline panel tooltip error when data was not in sync. [#39438](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39438), [@zoltanbedi](https://github.com/zoltanbedi)
- **InfluxDB:** InfluxQL query editor is set to always use resultFormat. [#39330](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39330), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
- **Loki:** Fixed creating context query for logs with parsed labels. [#39648](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39648), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **PageToolbar:** Fixed alignment of titles. [#39572](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39572), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **Plugins Catalog:** Update to the list of available panels after an install, update or uninstall. [#39293](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39293), [@leventebalogh](https://github.com/leventebalogh)
- **TimeSeries:** Fixed an issue where the shared cursor was not showing when hovering over in old Graph panel. [#39738](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39738), [@zoltanbedi](https://github.com/zoltanbedi)
- **Variables:** Fixed issues related to change of focus or refresh pages when pressing enter in a text box variable input. [#39666](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39666), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
- **Variables:** Panel no longer crash when using the adhoc variable in data links. [#39546](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39546), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
### Breaking changes
Grafana v8.2.0-beta1 caused data loss for users having enabled `ngalert` in 8.0.x - 8.1.x and created alerts using the new alerting system. This issue is now fixed except if the deployment has multiple organizations and the feature flag was enabled in the previous version (8.0.x - 8.1.x).
In this scenario (upgrade from 8.0.x - 8.1.x with multiple organizations and `ngalert` enabled to 8.2.0-beta2), the migration will assign existing notification policies and contact points to the first organization and then apply the default alertmanager configuration to all organizations. This will effectively reset notification policies for _all_ organizations. Issue [#39541](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/39541)
### Deprecations
`ngalert` feature toggle it has been deprecated it will be removed in a future release. To enable Grafana 8 alerts, modify your configuration and:
- in the `unified_alerting` section set the `enabled` property to `true`
- in the `alerting` section set the `enabled` property to `false` Issue [#38746](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/38746)
- **AccessControl:** Introduce new permissions to restrict access for reloading provisioning configuration. [#38906](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38906), [@vtorosyan](https://github.com/vtorosyan)
- **Alerting:** Add UI to edit Cortex/Loki namespace, group names, and group evaluation interval. [#38543](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38543), [@domasx2](https://github.com/domasx2)
- **Alerting:** Add a Test button to test contact point. [#37475](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37475), [@domasx2](https://github.com/domasx2)
- **Alerting:** Allow creating/editing recording rules for Loki and Cortex. [#38064](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38064), [@domasx2](https://github.com/domasx2)
- **Alerting:** Metrics should have the label `org` instead of `user`. [#39353](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39353), [@gotjosh](https://github.com/gotjosh)
- **Alerting:** Sort notification channels by name to make them easier to locate. [#37426](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37426), [@jstangroome](https://github.com/jstangroome)
- **AzureMonitor:** Add data links to deep link to Azure Portal Azure Resource Graph. [#35591](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35591), [@shuotli](https://github.com/shuotli)
- **AzureMonitor:** Add support for annotations from Azure Monitor Metrics and Azure Resource Graph services. [#37633](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37633), [@joshhunt](https://github.com/joshhunt)
- **AzureMonitor:** Show error message when subscriptions request fails in ConfigEditor. [#37837](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37837), [@joshhunt](https://github.com/joshhunt)
- **Chore:** Update to Golang 1.16.7. [#38604](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38604), [@dsotirakis](https://github.com/dsotirakis)
- **CloudWatch Logs:** Add link to X-Ray data source for trace IDs in logs. [#39135](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39135), [@aocenas](https://github.com/aocenas)
- **CloudWatch/Logs:** Don't group dataframes for non time series queries. [#37998](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37998), [@aocenas](https://github.com/aocenas)
- **Cloudwatch:** Migrate queries that use multiple stats to one query per stat. [#36925](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36925), [@sunker](https://github.com/sunker)
- **Dashboard:** Keep live timeseries moving left (v2). [#37769](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37769), [@ryantxu](https://github.com/ryantxu)
- **Datasources:** Introduce `response_limit` for datasource responses. [#38962](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38962), [@dsotirakis](https://github.com/dsotirakis)
- **Explore:** Add filter by trace or span ID to `trace to logs` feature. [#38943](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38943), [@connorlindsey](https://github.com/connorlindsey)
- **Explore:** Download traces as JSON in Explore Inspector. [#38614](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38614), [@connorlindsey](https://github.com/connorlindsey)
- **Explore:** Support custom display label for derived fields buttons for Loki datasource. [#37273](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37273), [@connorlindsey](https://github.com/connorlindsey)
- **Jaeger:** Add ability to upload JSON file for trace data. [#37205](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37205), [@zoltanbedi](https://github.com/zoltanbedi)
- **LibraryElements:** Enable specifying UID for new and existing library elements. [#39019](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39019), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
- **LibraryPanels:** Remove library panel icon from the panel header so you can no longer tell that a panel is a library panel from the dashboard view. [#38749](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38749), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
- **Logs panel:** Scroll to the bottom on page refresh when sorting in ascending order. [#37634](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37634), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Loki:** Add fuzzy search to label browser. [#36864](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36864), [@connorlindsey](https://github.com/connorlindsey)
- **Navigation:** Implement active state for items in the Sidemenu. [#39030](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39030), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **Packaging:** Add stricter systemd unit options. [#38109](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38109), [@erdnaxe](https://github.com/erdnaxe)
- **Packaging:** Update PID file location from `/var/run` to `/run`. [#35739](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35739), [@MichaIng](https://github.com/MichaIng)
- **Postgres/MySQL/MSSQL:** Add setting to limit the maximum number of rows processed. [#38986](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38986), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)
- **Tempo:** Add ability to upload trace data in JSON format. [#37407](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37407), [@zoltanbedi](https://github.com/zoltanbedi)
- **TimeSeries/XYChart:** Allow grid lines visibility control in XYChart and TimeSeries panels. [#38502](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38502), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
- **Transformations:** Convert field types to time string number or boolean. [#38517](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38517), [@nikki-kiga](https://github.com/nikki-kiga)
- **Value mappings:** Add regular-expression based value mapping. [#38931](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38931), [@mcdee](https://github.com/mcdee)
- **Zipkin:** Add ability to upload trace JSON. [#37483](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37483), [@zoltanbedi](https://github.com/zoltanbedi)
### Bug fixes
- **Admin:** Prevent user from deleting user's current/active organization. [#38056](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38056), [@idafurjes](https://github.com/idafurjes)
- **LibraryPanels:** Fix library panel getting saved in the dashboard's folder. [#38978](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38978), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
- **OAuth:** Make generic teams URL and JMES path configurable. [#37233](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37233), [@djairhogeuens](https://github.com/djairhogeuens)
- **Thresholds:** Fix undefined color in "Add threshold". [#39113](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39113), [@glintik](https://github.com/glintik)
- **Timeseries:** Add wide-to-long, and fix multi-frame output. [#38670](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38670), [@ryantxu](https://github.com/ryantxu)
- **TooltipPlugin:** Fix behavior of Shared Crosshair when Tooltip is set to All. [#37285](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37285), [@nikki-kiga](https://github.com/nikki-kiga)
### Breaking changes
The `monaco-editor` dependency in `grafana-ui` has been updated to a newer version (`0.27.0`), which is not completely backward compatible with the old version (`0.21.2`). The backward incompatible changes are fairly small, but they do exist, so if your code accesses the raw monaco-objects through the `grafana-ui` package, please check the [monaco-editor changelog](https://github.com/microsoft/monaco-editor/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md) and apply any necessary changes. Issue [#39027](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/39027)
Previous versions of `grafana/ui` components were typed incorrectly due to a dependency mismatch between emotion 10 and 11 causing a `css` prop to be added to components that extended react types.
Grafana v8.2 fixed an issue with org isolation for notification configuration but to fix this Grafana will now re-run the migration from old alerting and this will cause complete removal of all new alert rules and notification configurations. This data loss is not something we find acceptable and are working on ways to mitigate it. So in the meantime, if you are an early adopter of unified alerting please wait with trying v8.2 beta.
Panel queries and/or annotation queries that used more than one statistic will be converted into one query/annotation per statistic. In case an alerting rule was based on a query row that had more than one statistic, it would now be based only on the first statistic for that query row. New alerting rules will not be created for migrated queries. Please note that in most cases it would not make sense to have an alerting rule that is based on multiple statistics anyway. Issue [#36925](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/36925)
`getHighlighterExpressions` in datasource APIs ( used to highlight logs while editing queries) has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
# Deprecation notice
`ExploreQueryFieldProps` interface for query editors has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Use `QueryEditorProps` instead. Issue [#38942](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/38942)
### Plugin development fixes & changes
- **Grafana UI:** Fix TS error property `css` is missing in type. [#38078](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38078), [@jackw](https://github.com/jackw)
- **Security**: Fixes CVE-2021-43798. For more information, see our [blog](https://grafana.com/blog/2021/12/07/grafana-8.3.1-8.2.7-8.1.8-and-8.0.7-released-with-high-severity-security-fix/)
- **Alerting:** Fix alerts with evaluation interval more than 30 seconds resolving before notification. [#39513](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39513), [@gerobinson](https://github.com/gerobinson)
- **Elasticsearch/Prometheus:** Fix usage of proper SigV4 service namespace. [#39439](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39439), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)
- **Security**: Fixes CVE-2021-39226. For more information, see our [blog](https://grafana.com/blog/2021/10/05/grafana-7.5.11-and-8.1.6-released-with-critical-security-fix/)
- **BarChart:** Fixes panel error that happens on second refresh. [#39304](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39304), [@DanCech](https://github.com/DanCech)
- **Annotations:** Fix blank panels for queries with unknown data sources. [#39017](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39017), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
- **BarChart:** Fix stale values and x axis labels. [#39188](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39188), [@leeoniya](https://github.com/leeoniya)
- **Graph:** Make old graph panel thresholds work even if ngalert is enabled. [#38918](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38918), [@domasx2](https://github.com/domasx2)
- **InfluxDB:** Fix regex to identify `/` as separator. [#39185](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39185), [@dsotirakis](https://github.com/dsotirakis)
- **LibraryPanels:** Fix update issues related to library panels in rows. [#38963](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38963), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
- **Variables:** Fix variables not updating inside a Panel when the preceding Row uses "Repeat For". [#38935](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38935), [@axelavargas](https://github.com/axelavargas)
- **Alerting:** Fix alert flapping in the internal alertmanager. [#38648](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38648), [@gotjosh](https://github.com/gotjosh)
- **Alerting:** Fix request handler failed to convert dataframe "results" to plugins.DataTimeSeriesSlice: input frame is not recognized as a time series. [#38587](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38587), [@idafurjes](https://github.com/idafurjes)
- **Dashboard:** Fix UIDs are not preserved when importing/creating dashboards thru importing .json file. [#38659](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38659), [@axelavargas](https://github.com/axelavargas)
- **Dashboard:** Prevent folder from changing when navigating to general settings. [#38103](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38103), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
- **Docker:** Force use of libcrypto1.1 and libssl1.1 versions to fix CVE-2021-3711. [#38585](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38585), [@dsotirakis](https://github.com/dsotirakis)
- **Elasticsearch:** Fix metric names for alert queries. [#38546](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38546), [@dsotirakis](https://github.com/dsotirakis)
- **Elasticsearch:** Limit Histogram field parameter to numeric values. [#38631](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38631), [@Elfo404](https://github.com/Elfo404)
- **Elasticsearch:** Prevent pipeline aggregations to show up in terms order by options. [#38448](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38448), [@Elfo404](https://github.com/Elfo404)
- **LibraryPanels:** Prevent duplicate repeated panels from being created. [#38804](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38804), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
- **Loki:** Fix ad-hoc filter in dashboard when used with parser. [#38542](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38542), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Plugins:** Track signed files + add warn log for plugin assets which are not signed. [#38938](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38938), [@wbrowne](https://github.com/wbrowne)
- **Postgres/MySQL/MSSQL:** Fix region annotations not displayed correctly. [#38936](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38936), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)
- **Prometheus:** Fix validate selector in metrics browser. [#38921](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38921), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Security:** Fix stylesheet injection vulnerability [#38432](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38432), [@idafurjes](https://github.com/idafurjes). Big thanks to Tobias Hamann and Lauritz Holtmann of usd AG for reporting this issue.
- **Security:** Fix short URL vulnerability [#38436](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38436), [@idafurjes](https://github.com/idafurjes). Big thanks to Tobias Hamann and Lauritz Holtmann of usd AG for reporting this issue.
- **AzureMonitor:** Add support for PostgreSQL and MySQL Flexible Servers. [#38075](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38075), [@joshhunt](https://github.com/joshhunt)
- **Datasource:** Change HTTP status code for failed datasource health check to 400. [#37895](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37895), [@stephaniehingtgen](https://github.com/stephaniehingtgen)
- **Explore:** Add span duration to left panel in trace viewer. [#37806](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37806), [@connorlindsey](https://github.com/connorlindsey)
- **Plugins:** Use file extension allowlist when serving plugin assets instead of checking for UNIX executable. [#37688](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37688), [@wbrowne](https://github.com/wbrowne)
- **Profiling:** Add support for binding pprof server to custom network interfaces. [#36580](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36580), [@cinaglia](https://github.com/cinaglia)
- **Search:** Make search icon keyboard navigable. [#37865](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37865), [@tskarhed](https://github.com/tskarhed)
- **Tooltip:** Display ms within minute time range. [#37569](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37569), [@nikki-kiga](https://github.com/nikki-kiga)
- **Annotations:** Alert annotations are now visible in the correct Panel. [#37959](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37959), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
- **Auth:** Hide SigV4 config UI and disable middleware when its config flag is disabled. [#37293](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37293), [@wbrowne](https://github.com/wbrowne)
- **Dashboard:** Prevent incorrect panel layout by comparing window width against theme breakpoints. [#37868](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37868), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **Elasticsearch:** Fix metric names for alert queries. [#37871](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37871), [@dsotirakis](https://github.com/dsotirakis)
- **Explore:** Fix showing of full log context. [#37442](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37442), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **PanelEdit:** Fix 'Actual' size by passing the correct panel size to Das…. [#37885](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37885), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **Variables:** Fix issue with empty drop downs on navigation. [#37776](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37776), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
- **CloudWatch Logs:** Fix crash when no region is selected. [#37639](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37639), [@aocenas](https://github.com/aocenas)
- **Select:** Make portalling the menu opt-in, but opt-in _everywhere_. [#37501](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37501), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **Annotations:** Correct annotations that are displayed upon page refresh. [#37496](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37496), [@axelavargas](https://github.com/axelavargas)
- **Annotations:** Fix **Enabled** button that disappeared from Grafana v8.0.6. [#37454](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37454), [@axelavargas](https://github.com/axelavargas)
- **Annotations:** Fix data source template variable that was not available for annotations. [#37506](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37506), [@axelavargas](https://github.com/axelavargas)
- **AzureMonitor:** Fix annotations query editor that does not load. [#37476](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37476), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Live:** Display stream rate and fix duplicate channels in list response. [#37365](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37365), [@FZambia](https://github.com/FZambia)
- **Loki:** Update labels in log browser when time range changes. [#37520](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37520), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Loki:** Update labels in log browser when time range changes in dashboard. [#37541](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37541), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **NGAlert:** Send resolve signal to alertmanager on alerting -> Normal. [#37363](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37363), [@kylebrandt](https://github.com/kylebrandt)
- **PasswordField:** Prevent a password from being displayed when you click the Enter button. [#37444](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37444), [@tskarhed](https://github.com/tskarhed)
- **Renderer:** Remove debug.log file when Grafana is stopped. [#37367](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37367), [@AgnesToulet](https://github.com/AgnesToulet)
- **Security:** Update dependencies to fix CVE-2021-36222. [#37546](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37546), [@ying-jeanne](https://github.com/ying-jeanne)
- **Alerting:** Support label matcher syntax in alert rule list filter. [#36408](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36408), [@nathanrodman](https://github.com/nathanrodman)
- **IconButton:** Put tooltip text as aria-label. [#36760](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36760), [@tskarhed](https://github.com/tskarhed)
- **Live:** Experimental HA with Redis. [#36787](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36787), [@FZambia](https://github.com/FZambia)
- **Docker:** Fix builds by delaying go mod verify until all required files are copied over. [#37246](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37246), [@wbrowne](https://github.com/wbrowne)
- **Exemplars:** Fix disable exemplars only on the query that failed. [#37296](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37296), [@zoltanbedi](https://github.com/zoltanbedi)
- **Alerting:** Expand the value string in alert annotations and labels. [#37051](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37051), [@gerobinson](https://github.com/gerobinson)
- **Auth:** Auth: Pass user role when using the authentication proxy. [#36729](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36729), [@yuwaMSFT2](https://github.com/yuwaMSFT2)
- **Gazetteer:** Update countries.json file to allow for linking to 3-letter country codes. [#37129](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37129), [@bryanuribe](https://github.com/bryanuribe)
- **Alerting:** Add button to deactivate current Alertmanager configuration. [#36951](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36951), [@domasx2](https://github.com/domasx2)
- **Alerting:** Add toggle in Loki/Prometheus data source configuration to opt out of alerting UI. [#36552](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36552), [@domasx2](https://github.com/domasx2)
- **Alerting:** Allow any "evaluate for" value >=0 in the alert rule form. [#35807](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35807), [@domasx2](https://github.com/domasx2)
- **Alerting:** Load default configuration from status endpoint, if Cortex Alertmanager returns empty user configuration. [#35769](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35769), [@domasx2](https://github.com/domasx2)
- **Alerting:** view to display alert rule and its underlying data. [#35546](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35546), [@mckn](https://github.com/mckn)
- **Annotation panel:** Release the annotation panel. [#36959](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36959), [@ryantxu](https://github.com/ryantxu)
- **Annotations:** Add typeahead support for tags in built-in annotations. [#36377](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36377), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **AzureMonitor:** Add curated dashboards for Azure services. [#35356](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35356), [@avidhanju](https://github.com/avidhanju)
- **AzureMonitor:** Add support for deep links to Microsoft Azure portal for Metrics. [#32273](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/32273), [@shuotli](https://github.com/shuotli)
- **AzureMonitor:** Remove support for different credentials for Azure Monitor Logs. [#35121](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35121), [@andresmgot](https://github.com/andresmgot)
- **AzureMonitor:** Support querying any Resource for Logs queries. [#33879](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33879), [@joshhunt](https://github.com/joshhunt)
- **Elasticsearch:** Add frozen indices search support. [#36018](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36018), [@Elfo404](https://github.com/Elfo404)
- **Elasticsearch:** Name fields after template variables values instead of their name. [#36035](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36035), [@Elfo404](https://github.com/Elfo404)
- **Email:** Allow configuration of content types for email notifications. [#34530](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34530), [@djairhogeuens](https://github.com/djairhogeuens)
- **Explore:** Add more meta information when line limit is hit. [#33069](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33069), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Explore:** UI improvements to trace view. [#34276](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34276), [@aocenas](https://github.com/aocenas)
- **FieldOverrides:** Added support to change display name in an override field and have it be matched by a later rule. [#35893](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35893), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **InfluxDB:** InfluxQL: adds tags to timeseries data. [#36702](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36702), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
- **InfluxDB:** InfluxQL: make measurement search case insensitive. [#34563](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34563), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
- **Legacy Alerting:** Replace simplejson with a struct in webhook notification channel. [#34952](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34952), [@KEVISONG](https://github.com/KEVISONG)
- **Legend:** Updates display name for Last (not null) to just Last\*. [#35633](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35633), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Logs panel:** Add option to show common labels. [#36166](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36166), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Loki:** Add support for "label_values(log stream selector, label)" in templating. [#35488](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35488), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Loki:** Add support for ad-hoc filtering in dashboard. [#36393](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36393), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **PieChart:** Make pie gradient more subtle to match other charts. [#36961](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36961), [@nikki-kiga](https://github.com/nikki-kiga)
- **Prometheus:** Update PromQL typeahead and highlighting. [#36730](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36730), [@ekpdt](https://github.com/ekpdt)
- **Prometheus:** interpolate variable for step field. [#36437](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36437), [@zoltanbedi](https://github.com/zoltanbedi)
- **Provisioning:** Improve validation by validating across all dashboard providers. [#26742](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/26742), [@nabokihms](https://github.com/nabokihms)
- **SQL Datasources:** Allow multiple string/labels columns with time series. [#36485](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36485), [@kylebrandt](https://github.com/kylebrandt)
- **Select:** Portal select menu to document.body. [#36398](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36398), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **Team Sync:** Add group mapping to support team sync in the Generic OAuth provider. [#36307](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36307), [@wardbekker](https://github.com/wardbekker)
- **Tooltip:** Make active series more noticeable. [#36824](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36824), [@nikki-kiga](https://github.com/nikki-kiga)
- **Tracing:** Add support to configure trace to logs start and end time. [#34995](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34995), [@zoltanbedi](https://github.com/zoltanbedi)
- **Transformations:** Skip merge when there is only a single data frame. [#36407](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36407), [@edgarpoce](https://github.com/edgarpoce)
- **ValueMapping:** Added support for mapping text to color, boolean values, NaN and Null. Improved UI for value mapping. [#33820](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33820), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Visualizations:** Dynamically set any config (min, max, unit, color, thresholds) from query results. [#36548](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36548), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **live:** Add support to handle origin without a value for the port when matching with root_url. [#36834](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36834), [@FZambia](https://github.com/FZambia)
- **AzureMonitor:** Fix macro resolution for template variables. [#36944](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36944), [@andresmgot](https://github.com/andresmgot)
- **AzureMonitor:** Fix queries with Microsoft.NetApp/../../volumes resources. [#32661](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/32661), [@pckls](https://github.com/pckls)
- **AzureMonitor:** Request and concat subsequent resource pages. [#36958](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36958), [@andresmgot](https://github.com/andresmgot)
- **Bug:** Fix parse duration for day. [#36942](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36942), [@idafurjes](https://github.com/idafurjes)
- **Datasources:** Improve error handling for error messages. [#35120](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35120), [@ifrost](https://github.com/ifrost)
- **Explore:** Correct the functionality of shift-enter shortcut across all uses. [#36600](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36600), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Explore:** Show all dataFrames in data tab in Inspector. [#32161](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/32161), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **GraphNG:** Fix Tooltip mode 'All' for XYChart. [#31260](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/31260), [@Posnet](https://github.com/Posnet)
- **Loki:** Fix highlight of logs when using filter expressions with backticks. [#36024](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36024), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Modal:** Force modal content to overflow with scroll. [#36754](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36754), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
When parsing Elasticsearch query responses using template variables, each field gets named after the variable value instead of the name.
For example, executing a `terms` aggregation on a variable named `$groupBy` that has `@hostname` as a value, the resulting column in the table response will be `@hostname` instead of `$groupBy` Issue [#36035](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/36035)
Azure Monitor data source no longer supports different credentials for Metrics and Logs in existing data sources. To use different credentials for Azure Monitor Logs, create another data source. Issue [#35121](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/35121)
Existing Azure Metrics Logs queries for Log Analytics Workspaces should be backward compatible with this change and should not get impacted. Panels will be migrated to use the new resource-centric backend when you first edit and save them.
Application Insights and Insights Analytics queries are now read-only and cannot be modified. To update Application Insights queries, users can manually recreate them as Metrics queries, and Insights Analytics are recreated with Logs.
- **Security**: Fixes CVE-2021-43798. For more information, see our [blog](https://grafana.com/blog/2021/12/07/grafana-8.3.1-8.2.7-8.1.8-and-8.0.7-released-with-high-severity-security-fix/)
- **Alerting:** Add annotation upon alert state change. [#36535](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36535), [@davidmparrott](https://github.com/davidmparrott)
- **Alerting:** Allow space in label and annotation names. [#36549](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36549), [@codesome](https://github.com/codesome)
- **Alerting:** Fix improper alert by changing the handling of empty labels. [#36679](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36679), [@davidmparrott](https://github.com/davidmparrott)
- **Dashboard:** Avoid migration breaking on fieldConfig without defaults field in folded panel. [#36666](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36666), [@glindstedt](https://github.com/glindstedt)
- **DashboardList:** Fix issue not re-fetching dashboard list after variable change. [#36591](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36591), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Database:** Fix incorrect format of isolation level configuration parameter for MySQL. [#36565](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36565), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)
- **InfluxDB:** Correct tag filtering on InfluxDB data. [#36570](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36570), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
- **Links:** Fix links that caused a full page reload. [#36631](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36631), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Live:** Fix HTTP error when InfluxDB metrics have an incomplete or asymmetrical field set. [#36664](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36664), [@FZambia](https://github.com/FZambia)
- **Postgres/MySQL/MSSQL:** Change time field to "Time" for time series queries. [#36720](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36720), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)
- **Postgres:** Fix the handling of a null return value in query results. [#36648](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36648), [@idafurjes](https://github.com/idafurjes)
- **Tempo:** Show hex strings instead of uints for IDs. [#36471](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36471), [@zoltanbedi](https://github.com/zoltanbedi)
- **TimeSeries:** Improve tooltip positioning when tooltip overflows. [#36440](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36440), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **Transformations:** Add 'prepare time series' transformer. [#36737](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36737), [@ryantxu](https://github.com/ryantxu)
- **Cloudwatch Logs:** Send error down to client. [#36277](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36277), [@zoltanbedi](https://github.com/zoltanbedi)
- **Folders:** Return 409 Conflict status when folder already exists. [#36429](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36429), [@dsotirakis](https://github.com/dsotirakis)
- **TimeSeries:** Do not show series in tooltip if it's hidden in the viz. [#36353](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36353), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
- **AzureMonitor:** Fix issue where resource group name is missing on the resource picker button. [#36400](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36400), [@joshhunt](https://github.com/joshhunt)
- **Chore:** Fix AWS auth assuming role with workspace IAM. [#36430](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36430), [@wbrowne](https://github.com/wbrowne)
- **DashboardQueryRunner:** Fixes unrestrained subscriptions being created. [#36371](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36371), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
- **Links:** Fix links to other apps outside Grafana when under sub path. [#36498](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36498), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Snapshots:** Fix snapshot absolute time range issue. [#36350](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36350), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Table:** Fix data link color. [#36446](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36446), [@tharun208](https://github.com/tharun208)
- **Time Series:** Fix X-axis time format when tick increment is larger than a year. [#36335](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36335), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Tooltip Plugin:** Prevent tooltip render if field is undefined. [#36260](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36260), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **Live:** Rely on app url for origin check. [#35983](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35983), [@FZambia](https://github.com/FZambia)
- **PieChart:** Sort legend descending, update placeholder to show default …. [#36062](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36062), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **TimeSeries panel:** Do not reinitialize plot when thresholds mode change. [#35952](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35952), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
- **Elasticsearch:** Allow case sensitive custom options in date_histogram interval. [#36168](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36168), [@Elfo404](https://github.com/Elfo404)
- **Elasticsearch:** Restore previous field naming strategy when using variables. [#35624](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35624), [@Elfo404](https://github.com/Elfo404)
- **Explore:** Fix import of queries between SQL data sources. [#36210](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36210), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Loki:** Send correct time range in template variable queries. [#36268](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36268), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **TimeSeries:** Preserve RegExp series overrides when migrating from old graph panel. [#36134](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36134), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **Alerting:** Increase alertmanager_conf column if MySQL. [#35657](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35657), [@kylebrandt](https://github.com/kylebrandt)
- **Time series/Bar chart panel:** Handle infinite numbers as nulls when converting to plot array. [#35638](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35638), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
- **TimeSeries:** Ensure series overrides that contain color are migrated, and migrate the previous `fieldConfig` when changing the panel type. [#35676](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35676), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **ValueMappings:** Improve singlestat value mappings migration. [#35578](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35578), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
- **Annotations:** Fix annotation line and marker colors. [#35608](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35608), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **CloudWatch/Logs:** Fix missing response data for log queries. [#35724](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35724), [@aocenas](https://github.com/aocenas)
- **Elasticsearch:** Restore previous field naming strategy when using variables. [#35624](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35624), [@Elfo404](https://github.com/Elfo404)
- **LibraryPanels:** Fix crash in library panels list when panel plugin is not found. [#35907](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35907), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **LogsPanel:** Fix performance drop when moving logs panel in dashboard. [#35379](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35379), [@aocenas](https://github.com/aocenas)
- **Loki:** Parse log levels when ANSI coloring is enabled. [#35607](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35607), [@olbo98](https://github.com/olbo98)
- **MSSQL:** Fix issue with hidden queries still being executed. [#35787](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35787), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **PanelEdit:** Display the VisualizationPicker that was not displayed if a panel has an unknown panel plugin. [#35831](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35831), [@jackw](https://github.com/jackw)
- **Prometheus:** Fix issue where legend name was replaced with name Value in stat and gauge panels. [#35863](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35863), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **State Timeline:** Fix crash when hovering over panel. [#35692](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35692), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
- **Datasource:** Add support for max_conns_per_host in dataproxy settings. [#35520](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35520), [@jvrplmlmn](https://github.com/jvrplmlmn)
- **Postgres/MySQL/MSSQL:** Fix panic in concurrent map writes. [#35510](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35510), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)
- **Variables:** Hide default data source if missing from regex. [#35561](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35561), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
- **Dashboard:** Fix Dashboard init failed error on dashboards with old singlestat panels in collapsed rows. [#35425](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35425), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Datasource:** Fix storing timeout option as numeric. [#35441](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35441), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)
- **Postgres/MySQL/MSSQL:** Fix annotation parsing for empty responses. [#35367](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35367), [@marcbachmann](https://github.com/marcbachmann)
- **Postgres/MySQL/MSSQL:** Numeric/non-string values are now returned from query variables. [#35411](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35411), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)
- **Postgres:** Fix an error that was thrown when the annotation query did not return any results. [#35382](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35382), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
- **StatPanel:** Fix an issue with the appearance of the graph when switching color mode. [#35460](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35460), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Visualizations:** Fix an issue in the Stat/BarGauge/Gauge/PieChart panels where all values mode were showing the same name if they had the same value. [#35368](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35368), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Toolkit:** Resolve external fonts when Grafana is served from a sub path. [#35352](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35352), [@jackw](https://github.com/jackw)
- **AzureMonitor:** Use resource type display names in the UI. [#35060](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35060), [@joshhunt](https://github.com/joshhunt)
- **Dashboard:** Remove support for loading and deleting dashboard by slug. [#35104](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35104), [@dsotirakis](https://github.com/dsotirakis)
- **InfluxDB:** Deprecate direct browser access in data source. [#35105](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35105), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
- **VizLegend:** Add a read-only property. [#35096](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35096), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
- **Checkbox:** Fix vertical layout issue with checkboxes due to fixed height. [#35022](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35022), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Dashboard:** Fix Table view when editing causes the panel data to not update. [#34998](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34998), [@axelavargas](https://github.com/axelavargas)
- **Dashboard:** Fix issues where unsaved-changes warning is not displayed. [#34989](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34989), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Login:** Fixes Unauthorized message showing when on login page or snapshot page. [#35311](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35311), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **NodeGraph:** Fix sorting markers in grid view. [#35200](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35200), [@aocenas](https://github.com/aocenas)
- **Short URL:** Include orgId in generated short URLs. [#34696](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34696), [@farodin91](https://github.com/farodin91)
- **Variables:** Support raw values of boolean type. [#34727](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34727), [@simPod](https://github.com/simPod)
- **API:** Support folder UID in dashboards API. [#33991](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33991), [@zserge](https://github.com/zserge)
- **Alerting:** Add support for configuring avatar URL for the Discord notifier. [#33355](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33355), [@ChipWolf](https://github.com/ChipWolf)
- **Alerting:** Clarify that Threema Gateway Alerts support only Basic IDs. [#34828](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34828), [@dbrgn](https://github.com/dbrgn)
- **Azure:** Expose Azure settings to external plugins. [#34484](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34484), [@sunker](https://github.com/sunker)
- **AzureMonitor:** Deprecate using separate credentials for Azure Monitor Logs. [#34758](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34758), [@andresmgot](https://github.com/andresmgot)
- **AzureMonitor:** Display variables in resource picker for Azure Monitor Logs. [#34648](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34648), [@joshhunt](https://github.com/joshhunt)
- **AzureMonitor:** Hide application insights for data sources not using it. [#34725](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34725), [@joshhunt](https://github.com/joshhunt)
- **AzureMonitor:** Support querying subscriptions and resource groups in Azure Monitor Logs. [#34766](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34766), [@joshhunt](https://github.com/joshhunt)
- **AzureMonitor:** remove requirement for default subscription. [#34787](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34787), [@kostrse](https://github.com/kostrse)
- **ConfirmModal:** Auto focus delete button. [#34917](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34917), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Explore:** Add caching for queries that are run from logs navigation. [#34297](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34297), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Loki:** Add formatting for annotations. [#34774](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34774), [@fredr](https://github.com/fredr)
- **Loki:** Bring back processed bytes as meta information. [#34092](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34092), [@mmenbawy](https://github.com/mmenbawy)
- **NodeGraph:** Display node graph collapsed by default with trace view. [#34491](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34491), [@aocenas](https://github.com/aocenas)
- **Overrides:** Include a manual override option to hide something from visualization. [#34783](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34783), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **PieChart:** Support row data in pie charts. [#34755](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34755), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Prometheus:** Update default HTTP method to POST for existing data sources. [#34599](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34599), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Time series panel:** Position tooltip correctly when window is scrolled or resized. [#34782](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34782), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
- **Admin:** Fix infinite loading edit on the profile page. [#34627](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34627), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
- **Color:** Fix issues with random colors in string and date fields. [#34913](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34913), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Dashboard:** Fix issue with title or folder change has no effect after exiting settings view. [#34677](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34677), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **DataLinks:** Fix an issue \_\_series.name is not working in data link. [#34932](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34932), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Datasource:** Fix dataproxy timeout should always be applied for outgoing data source HTTP requests. [#34597](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34597), [@dsotirakis](https://github.com/dsotirakis)
- **Elasticsearch:** Fix NewClient not passing httpClientProvider to client impl. [#34539](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34539), [@KiVirgil](https://github.com/KiVirgil)
- **Explore:** Fix Browser title not updated on Navigation to Explore. [#34651](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34651), [@axelavargas](https://github.com/axelavargas)
- **GraphNG:** Remove fieldName and hideInLegend properties from UPlotSeriesBuilder. [#34901](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34901), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
- **OAuth:** Fix fallback to auto_assign_org_role setting for Azure AD OAuth when no role claims exists. [#34838](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34838), [@idafurjes](https://github.com/idafurjes)
- **PanelChrome:** Fix issue with empty panel after adding a non data panel and coming back from panel edit. [#34765](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34765), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **StatPanel:** Fix data link tooltip not showing for single value. [#34934](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34934), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Table:** Fix sorting for number fields. [#34722](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34722), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
- **Table:** Have text underline for datalink, and add support for image datalink. [#34635](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34635), [@thisisobate](https://github.com/thisisobate)
- **Time series panel:** Position tooltip correctly when window is scrolled or resized. [#34584](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34584), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
The default HTTP method for Prometheus data source is now POST. Previously, it was GET. The POST APIs have been available since January 2018 (Prometheus 2.1.0) and they have fewer limitations than the GET APIs. For example, when dealing with high cardinality labels, GET hits the URL size limit.
If you have a Prometheus instance with version <2.1.0,whichusesthedefaultHTTPmethod,updateyourHTTPmethodtoGET.Issue [#34599](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/34599)
- **AzureMonitor:** Token provider with support for Managed Identities. [#33807](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33807), [@kostrse](https://github.com/kostrse)
- **CloudWatch:** Allow use of missing AWS namespaces using custom metrics. [#30961](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/30961), [@mmcoltman](https://github.com/mmcoltman)
- **Datasource:** Shared HTTP client provider for core backend data sources and any data source using the data source proxy. [#33439](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33439), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)
- **InfluxDB:** InfluxQL: allow empty tag values in the query editor. [#34311](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34311), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
- **Instrumentation:** Instrument incoming HTTP request with histograms by default. [#33921](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33921), [@bergquist](https://github.com/bergquist)
- **Library Panels:** Add name endpoint & unique name validation to AddLibraryPanelModal. [#33987](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33987), [@kaydelaney](https://github.com/kaydelaney)
- **Logs panel:** Support details view. [#34125](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34125), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **PieChart:** Always show the calculation options dropdown in the editor. [#34267](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34267), [@oscarkilhed](https://github.com/oscarkilhed)
- **Annotations panel:** Remove subpath from dashboard links. [#34134](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34134), [@jackw](https://github.com/jackw)
- **Content Security Policy:** Allow all image sources by default. [#34265](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34265), [@aknuds1](https://github.com/aknuds1)
- **Content Security Policy:** Relax default template wrt. loading of scripts, due to nonces not working. [#34363](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34363), [@aknuds1](https://github.com/aknuds1)
- **Datasource:** Fix tracing propagation for alert execution by introducing HTTP client outgoing tracing middleware. [#34466](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34466), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)
- **InfluxDB:** InfluxQL always apply time interval end. [#34308](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34308), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
- **NewsPanel:** Fixes rendering issue in Safari. [#34067](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34067), [@kaydelaney](https://github.com/kaydelaney)
- **PanelChrome:** Fix queries being issued again when scrolling in and out of view. [#34061](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34061), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Snapshots:** Fix key and deleteKey being ignored when creating an external snapshot. [#33686](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33686), [@wengelbrecht-grafana](https://github.com/wengelbrecht-grafana)
- **Table:** Fix issue with cell border not showing with colored background cells. [#34231](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34231), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Table:** Makes tooltip scrollable for long JSON values. [#34120](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34120), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
- **TimeSeries:** Fix for Connected null values threshold toggle during panel editing. [#34452](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34452), [@leeoniya](https://github.com/leeoniya)
- **Variables:** Fixes inconsistent `selected` states on dashboard load. [#34197](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34197), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
- **Variables:** Refreshes all panels even if panel is full screen. [#34097](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/34097), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
The `workspaces()` template variable, mainly for use with Azure Monitor Logs, has been changed to return resource URIs instead of Log Analytics Workspaces GUIDs. This should not impact Azure Monitor Logs queries, but if the variables are being used in other data sources which expect a Workspace GUID may no longer be compatible.
Custom template variables used in the workspace or resource field in Azure Monitor Logs queries should resolve to an Azure Resource URI in the format `/subscriptions/{guid}/resourceGroups/{resource-group-name}/{resource-provider-namespace}/{resource-type}/{resource-name}`
- **API**: Add org users with pagination. [#33788](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33788), [@idafurjes](https://github.com/idafurjes)
- **API**: Return 404 when deleting nonexistent API key. [#33346](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33346), [@chaudum](https://github.com/chaudum)
- **API**: Return query results as JSON rather than base64 encoded Arrow. [#32303](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/32303), [@ryantxu](https://github.com/ryantxu)
- **Alerting**: Allow sending notification tags to Opsgenie as extra properties. [#30332](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/30332), [@DewaldV](https://github.com/DewaldV)
- **Alerts**: Replaces all uses of InfoBox & FeatureInfoBox with Alert. [#33352](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33352), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Auth**: Add support for JWT Authentication. [#29995](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/29995), [@marshall-lee](https://github.com/marshall-lee)
- **AzureMonitor**: Add support for Microsoft.SignalRService/SignalR metrics. [#33246](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33246), [@M0ns1gn0r](https://github.com/M0ns1gn0r)
- **AzureMonitor**: Azure settings in Grafana server config. [#33728](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33728), [@kostrse](https://github.com/kostrse)
- **AzureMonitor**: Migrate Metrics query editor to React. [#30783](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/30783), [@joshhunt](https://github.com/joshhunt)
- **BarChart panel**: enable series toggling via legend. [#33955](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33955), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
- **BarChart panel**: Adds support for Tooltip in BarChartPanel. [#33938](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33938), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
- **PieChart panel**: Change look of highlighted pie slices. [#33841](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33841), [@oscarkilhed](https://github.com/oscarkilhed)
- **CloudMonitoring**: Migrate config editor from angular to react. [#33645](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33645), [@sunker](https://github.com/sunker)
- **CloudWatch**: Add Amplify Console metrics and dimensions. [#33171](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33171), [@rodrigorfk](https://github.com/rodrigorfk)
- **CloudWatch**: Add missing Redshift metrics to CloudWatch data source. [#32121](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/32121), [@tomdaly](https://github.com/tomdaly)
- **CloudWatch**: Add metrics for managed RabbitMQ service. [#31838](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/31838), [@nirojan](https://github.com/nirojan)
- **DashboardList**: Enable templating on search tag input. [#31460](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/31460), [@delta50](https://github.com/delta50)
- **Elasticsearch**: Add generic support for template variables. [#32762](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/32762), [@Elfo404](https://github.com/Elfo404)
- **Elasticsearch**: Allow omitting field when metric supports inline script. [#32839](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/32839), [@Elfo404](https://github.com/Elfo404)
- **Elasticsearch**: Allow setting a custom limit for log queries. [#32422](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/32422), [@Elfo404](https://github.com/Elfo404)
- **Elasticsearch**: Guess field type from first non-empty value. [#32290](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/32290), [@Elfo404](https://github.com/Elfo404)
- **Elasticsearch**: Use application/x-ndjson content type for multisearch requests. [#32282](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/32282), [@Elfo404](https://github.com/Elfo404)
- **Elasticsearch**: Use semver strings to identify ES version. [#33646](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33646), [@Elfo404](https://github.com/Elfo404)
- **Explore**: Add logs navigation to request more logs. [#33259](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33259), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Explore**: Map Graphite queries to Loki. [#33405](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33405), [@ifrost](https://github.com/ifrost)
- **Explore**: Scroll split panes in Explore independently. [#32978](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/32978), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Explore**: Wrap each panel in separate error boundary. [#33868](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33868), [@aocenas](https://github.com/aocenas)
- **FieldDisplay**: Smarter naming of stat values when visualising row values (all values) in stat panels. [#31704](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/31704), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Graphite**: Expand metric names for variables. [#33694](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33694), [@ifrost](https://github.com/ifrost)
- **Graphite**: Handle unknown Graphite functions without breaking the visual editor. [#32635](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/32635), [@ifrost](https://github.com/ifrost)
- **Graphite**: Show graphite functions descriptions. [#32305](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/32305), [@ifrost](https://github.com/ifrost)
- **Graphite**: Support request cancellation properly (Uses new backendSrv.fetch Observable request API). [#31928](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/31928), [@mckn](https://github.com/mckn)
- **InfluxDB**: Flux: Improve handling of complex response-structures. [#33823](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33823), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
- **InfluxDB**: Support region annotations. [#31526](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/31526), [@Komalis](https://github.com/Komalis)
- **Inspector**: Download logs for manual processing. [#32764](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/32764), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Jaeger**: Add node graph view for trace. [#31521](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/31521), [@aocenas](https://github.com/aocenas)
- **Loki**: Use data source settings for alerting queries. [#33942](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33942), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **OAuth**: Add support for empty scopes. [#32129](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/32129), [@jvoeller](https://github.com/jvoeller)
- **PanelChrome**: New logic-less emotion based component with no dependency on PanelModel or DashboardModel. [#29456](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/29456), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **PanelEdit**: Adds a table view toggle to quickly view data in table form. [#33753](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33753), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **PanelEdit**: Highlight matched words when searching options. [#33717](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33717), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Plugins**: PanelRenderer and simplified QueryRunner to be used from plugins. [#31901](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/31901), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Plugins**: AuthType in route configuration and params interpolation. [#33674](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33674), [@kostrse](https://github.com/kostrse)
- **Plugins**: Support set body content in plugin routes. [#32551](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/32551), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)
- **Plugins**: Moving the DataSourcePicker to grafana/runtime so it can be reused in plugins. [#31628](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/31628), [@mckn](https://github.com/mckn)
- **Prometheus**: Add custom query params for alert and exemplars queries. [#32440](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/32440), [@aocenas](https://github.com/aocenas)
- **Prometheus**: Use fuzzy string matching to autocomplete metric names and label. [#32207](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/32207), [@ifrost](https://github.com/ifrost)
- **Routing**: Replace Angular routing with react-router. [#31463](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/31463), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
- **Slack**: Use chat.postMessage API by default. [#32511](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/32511), [@aknuds1](https://github.com/aknuds1)
- **Tempo**: Search for Traces by querying Loki directly from Tempo. [#33308](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33308), [@davkal](https://github.com/davkal)
- **Tempo**: Show graph view of the trace. [#33635](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33635), [@aocenas](https://github.com/aocenas)
- **Themes**: Switch theme without reload using global shortcut. [#32180](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/32180), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **TimeSeries panel**: Add support for shared cursor. [#33433](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33433), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
- **TimeSeries panel**: Do not crash the panel if there is no time series data in the response. [#33993](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33993), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
- **Variables**: Do not save repeated panels, rows and scopedVars. [#32436](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/32436), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Variables**: Removes the never refresh option. [#33533](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33533), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
- **Visualizations**: Unify tooltip options across visualizations. [#33892](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33892), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
- **Visualizations**: Refactor and unify option creation between new visualizations. [#33867](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33867), [@oscarkilhed](https://github.com/oscarkilhed)
- **APIKeys**: Fixes issue with adding first api key. [#32201](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/32201), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Alerting**: Add checks for non supported units - disable defaulting to seconds. [#32477](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/32477), [@dsotirakis](https://github.com/dsotirakis)
- **Alerting**: Fix issue where Slack notifications won't link to user IDs. [#32861](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/32861), [@n-wbrown](https://github.com/n-wbrown)
- **Alerting**: Omit empty message in PagerDuty notifier. [#31359](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/31359), [@pkoenig10](https://github.com/pkoenig10)
- **AzureMonitor**: Fix migration error from older versions of App Insights queries. [#32372](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/32372), [@joshhunt](https://github.com/joshhunt)
- **Dashboards**: Allow string manipulation as advanced variable format option. [#29754](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/29754), [@rscot231](https://github.com/rscot231)
- **DataLinks**: Includes harmless extended characters like Cyrillic characters. [#33551](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33551), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
- **Drawer**: Fixes title overflowing its container. [#33857](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33857), [@thisisobate](https://github.com/thisisobate)
- **Explore**: Fix issue when some query errors were not shown. [#32212](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/32212), [@aocenas](https://github.com/aocenas)
- **Graphite**: Fix autocomplete when tags are not available. [#31680](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/31680), [@ifrost](https://github.com/ifrost)
- **InfluxDB**: Fix Cannot read property 'length' of undefined in when parsing response. [#32504](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/32504), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Instrumentation**: Enable tracing when Jaeger host and port are set. [#33682](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33682), [@zserge](https://github.com/zserge)
- **Instrumentation**: Prefix metrics with `grafana`. [#33925](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33925), [@bergquist](https://github.com/bergquist)
- **MSSQL**: By default let driver choose port. [#32417](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/32417), [@aknuds1](https://github.com/aknuds1)
- **OAuth**: Add optional strict parsing of role_attribute_path. [#28021](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/28021), [@klausenbusk](https://github.com/klausenbusk)
- **Panel**: Fixes description markdown with inline code being rendered on newlines and full width. [#32405](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/32405), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
- **PanelChrome**: Ignore data updates & errors for non data panels. [#33477](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33477), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Permissions**: Fix inherited folder permissions can prevent new permissions being added to a dashboard. [#33329](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33329), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)
- **Plugins**: Remove pre-existing plugin installs when installing with grafana-cli. [#31515](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/31515), [@wbrowne](https://github.com/wbrowne)
- **Plugins**: Support installing to folders with whitespace and fix pluginUrl trailing and leading whitespace failures. [#32506](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/32506), [@wbrowne](https://github.com/wbrowne)
- **Postgres/MySQL/MSSQL**: Don't return connection failure details to the client. [#32408](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/32408), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)
- **Postgres**: Fix ms precision of interval in time group macro when TimescaleDB is enabled. [#33853](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33853), [@ying-jeanne](https://github.com/ying-jeanne)
- **Provisioning**: Use dashboard checksum field as change indicator. [#29797](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/29797), [@cristi-](https://github.com/cristi-)
- **SQL**: Fix so that all captured errors are returned from sql engine. [#32353](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/32353), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)
- **Shortcuts**: Fixes panel shortcuts so they always work. [#32385](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/32385), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Table**: Fixes so border is visible for cells with links. [#33160](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33160), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
- **Variables**: Clear query when data source type changes. [#33924](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33924), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
- **Variables**: Filters out builtin variables from unknown list. [#33933](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33933), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
- **Variables**: Refreshes all panels even if panel is full screen. [#33201](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33201), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
Removes the `never` refresh option for Query variables. Existing variables will be migrated and any stored options will be removed. Issue [#33533](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/33533)
Removes the experimental Tags feature for Variables. Issue [#33361](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/33361)
### Deprecations
The InfoBox & FeatureInfoBox are now deprecated please use the Alert component instead with severity info.
- **DataQueryRequest**: Remove deprecated props showingGraph and showingTabel and exploreMode. [#31876](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/31876), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **grafana/ui**: Update React Hook Form to v7. [#33328](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33328), [@Clarity-89](https://github.com/Clarity-89)
- **IconButton**: Introduce variant for red and blue icon buttons. [#33479](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33479), [@jackw](https://github.com/jackw)
- **Plugins**: Expose the `getTimeZone` function to be able to get the current selected timeZone. [#31900](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/31900), [@mckn](https://github.com/mckn)
- **TagsInput**: Add className to TagsInput. [#33944](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33944), [@Clarity-89](https://github.com/Clarity-89)
- **VizLegend**: Move onSeriesColorChanged to PanelContext (breaking change). [#33611](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33611), [@ryantxu](https://github.com/ryantxu)
- **AGPL License:** Update license from Apache 2.0 to the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL). [#33184](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33184)
