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# Release notes for Grafana 8.0.6

### Features and enhancements

- **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)
- **InfluxDB:** Improve legend labels for InfluxDB query results. [#36603](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36603), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)

### Bug fixes

- **Alerting:** Fix improper alert by changing the handling of empty labels. [#36679](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36679), [@davidmparrott](https://github.com/davidmparrott)
- **CloudWatch/Logs:** Reestablish Cloud Watch alert behavior. [#36558](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36558), [@aocenas](https://github.com/aocenas)
- **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)