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6.3.2 (2019-08-07)

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• Gauge/BarGauge: Fixes issue with lost thresholds and issue loading Gauge with avg stat. #18375

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6.3.1 (2019-08-07)

Bug Fixes

• PanelLinks: Fix crash issue Gauge & Bar Gauge for panels with panel links (drill down links). #18430

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6.3.0 (2019-08-06)

Features / Enhancements

• OAuth: Do not set SameSite OAuth cookie if cookie_samesite is None. #18392, @papagian

Bug Fixes

• PanelLinks: Fix render issue when there is no panel description. #18408, @dehrax

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6.3.0-beta4 (2019-08-02)

Features / Enhancements

• Auth Proxy: Include additional headers as part of the cache key. #18298, @gotjosh

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6.3.0-beta2 (2019-07-26)

Features / Enhancements

• Build grafana images consistently. #18224, @hassanfarid
• Docs: SAML. #18069, @gotjosh
• Permissions: Show plugins in nav for non admin users but hide plugin configuration. #18234, @aocenas
• TimePicker: Increase max height of quick range dropdown. #18247, @torkelo

Bug Fixes

• DataLinks: Fixes incorrect interpolation of ${__series_name} . #18251, @torkelo
• Loki: Display live tailed logs in correct order in Explore. #18031, @kaydelaney
• PhantomJS: Fixes rendering on Debian Buster. #18162, @xlson
• TimePicker: Fixed style issue for custom range popover. #18244, @torkelo
• Timerange: Fixes a bug where custom time ranges didn't respect UTC. #18248, @kaydelaney
• remote_cache: Fix redis connstr parsing. #18204, @mblaschke

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6.3.0-beta1 (2019-07-10)

Features / Enhancements

• Alerting: Add tags to alert rules. #10989, @Thib17
• Alerting: Attempt to send email notifications to all given email addresses. #16881, @zhulongcheng
• Alerting: Improve alert rule testing. #16286, @marefr
• Alerting: Support for configuring content field for Discord alert notifier. #17017, @jan25
• Alertmanager: Replace illegal chars with underscore in label names. #17002, @bergquist
• Auth: Allow expiration of API keys. #17678, @papagian
• Auth: Return device, os and browser when listing user auth tokens in HTTP API. #17504, @shavonn
• Auth: Support list and revoke of user auth tokens in UI. #17434, @shavonn
• AzureMonitor: change clashing built-in Grafana variables/macro names for Azure Logs. #17140, @shavonn
• CloudWatch: Made region visible for AWS Cloudwatch Expressions. #17243, @utkarshcmu
• Cloudwatch: Add AWS DocDB metrics. #17241, @utkarshcmu
• Dashboard: Use timezone dashboard setting when exporting to CSV. #18002, @dehrax
• Data links. #17267, @torkelo
• Docker: Switch base image to ubuntu:latest from debian:stretch to avoid security issues.. #17066, @bergquist
• Elasticsearch: Support for visualizing logs in Explore . #17605, @marefr
• Explore: Adds Live option for supported datasources. #17062, @hugohaggmark
• Explore: Adds orgId to URL for sharing purposes. #17895, @kaydelaney
• Explore: Adds support for new loki 'start' and 'end' params for labels endpoint. #17512, @kaydelaney
• Explore: Adds support for toggling raw query mode in explore. #17870, @kaydelaney
• Explore: Allow switching between metrics and logs . #16959, @marefr
• Explore: Combines the timestamp and local time columns into one. #17775, @hugohaggmark
• Explore: Display log lines context . #17097, @dprokop
• Explore: Don't parse log levels if provided by field or label. #17180, @marefr
• Explore: Improves performance of Logs element by limiting re-rendering. #17685, @kaydelaney
• Explore: Support for new LogQL filtering syntax. #16674, @davkal
• Explore: Use new TimePicker from Grafana/UI. #17793, @hugohaggmark
• Explore: handle newlines in LogRow Highlighter. #17425, @rrfeng
• Graph: Added new fill gradient option. #17528, @torkelo
• GraphPanel: Don't sort series when legend table & sort column is not visible . #17095, @shavonn
• InfluxDB: Support for visualizing logs in Explore. #17450, @hugohaggmark
• Logging: Login and Logout actions (#17760). #17883, @ATTron
• Logging: Move log package to pkg/infra. #17023, @zhulongcheng
• Metrics: Expose stats about roles as metrics. #17469, @bergquist
• MySQL/Postgres/MSSQL: Add parsing for day, weeks and year intervals in macros. #13086, @bernardd
• MySQL: Add support for periodically reloading client certs. #14892, @tpetr
• Plugins: replace dataFormats list with skipDataQuery flag in plugin.json. #16984, @ryantxu
• Prometheus: Take timezone into account for step alignment. #17477, @fxmiii
• Prometheus: Use overridden panel range for $__range instead of dashboard range. #17352, @patrick246
• Prometheus: added time range filter to series labels query. #16851, @FUSAKLA
• Provisioning: Support folder that doesn't exist yet in dashboard provisioning. #17407, @Nexucis
• Refresh picker: Handle empty intervals. #17585, @dehrax
• Singlestat: Add y min/max config to singlestat sparklines. #17527, @pitr
• Snapshot: use given key and deleteKey. #16876, @zhulongcheng
• Templating: Correctly display __text in multi-value variable after page reload. #17840, @EduardSergeev
• Templating: Support selecting all filtered values of a multi-value variable. #16873, @r66ad
• Tracing: allow propagation with Zipkin headers. #17009, @jrockway
• Users: Disable users removed from LDAP. #16820, @alexanderzobnin

Bug Fixes

• AddPanel: Fix issue when removing moved add panel widget . #17659, @dehrax
• CLI: Fix encrypt-datasource-passwords fails with sql error. #18014, @marefr
• Elasticsearch: Fix default max concurrent shard requests. #17770, @marefr
• Explore: Fix browsing back to dashboard panel. #17061, @jschill
• Explore: Fix filter by series level in logs graph. #17798, @marefr
• Explore: Fix issues when loading and both graph/table are collapsed. #17113, @marefr
• Explore: Fix selection/copy of log lines. #17121, @marefr
• Fix: Wrap value of multi variable in array when coming from URL. #16992, @aocenas
• Frontend: Fix for Json tree component not working. #17608, @srid12
• Graphite: Fix for issue with alias function being moved last. #17791, @torkelo
• Graphite: Fixes issue with seriesByTag & function with variable param. #17795, @torkelo
• Graphite: use POST for /metrics/find requests. #17814, @papagian
• HTTP Server: Serve Grafana with a custom URL path prefix. #17048, @jan25
• InfluxDB: Fixes single quotes are not escaped in label value filters. #17398, @Panzki
• Prometheus: Correctly escape '|' literals in interpolated PromQL variables. #16932, @Limess
• Prometheus: Fix when adding label for metrics which contains colons in Explore. #16760, @tolwi
• SinglestatPanel: Remove background color when value turns null. #17552, @druggieri

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6.2.5 (2019-05-25)

Features / Enhancements

• Grafana-CLI: Wrapper for grafana-cli within RPM/DEB packages and config/homepath are now global flags. #17695, @gotjosh
• Panel: Fully escape html in drilldown links (was only sanitized before) . #17731, @dehrax

Bug Fixes

• Config: Fix connectionstring for remote_cache in defaults.ini. #17675, @kylebrandt
• Elasticsearch: Fix empty query (via template variable) should be sent as wildcard. #17488, @davewat
• HTTP-Server: Fix Strict-Transport-Security header. #17644, @kylebrandt
• TablePanel: fix annotations display. #17646, @ryantxu

Bug Fixes

• Grafana-CLI: Fix receiving flags via command line . #17617, @gotjosh
• HTTPServer: Fix X-XSS-Protection header formatting. #17620, @yverry

Known issues

• grafana-cli: The argument --pluginsDir is not working.
• docker: Due to above problem with grafana-cli the docker run will fail to start the container if you're installing plugins using the GF_INSTALL_PLUGINS environment variable. We have removed 6.2.3 tag from docker hub and latest tag now points to 6.2.2.

More details in bug report: https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/17613

Features / Enhancements

• AuthProxy: Optimistic lock pattern for remote cache Set. #17485, @papagian
• HTTPServer: Options for returning new headers X-Content-Type-Options, X-XSS-Protection and Strict-Transport-Security. #17522, @kylebrandt

Bug Fixes

• Auth Proxy: Fix non-negative cache TTL. #17495, @kylebrandt
• Grafana-CLI: Fix receiving configuration flags from the command line. #17606, @gotjosh
• OAuth: Fix for wrong user token updated on OAuth refresh in DS proxy. #17541, @redbaron
• remote_cache: Fix redis. #17483, @kylebrandt

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6.2.2 (2019-06-05)

Features / Enhancements

• Security: Prevent CSV formula injection attack when exporting data. #17363, @DanCech

Bug Fixes

• CloudWatch: Fixes error when hiding/disabling queries . #17283, @jpiccari
• Database: Fixed slow permission query in folder/dashboard search. #17427, @aocenas
• Explore: Fixed updating time range before running queries. #17349, @marefr
• Plugins: Fixed plugin config page navigation when using subpath. #17364, @torkelo

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6.2.1 (2019-05-27)

Features / Enhancements

• CLI: Add command to migrate all datasources to use encrypted password fields . #17118, @aocenas
• Gauge/BarGauge: Improvements to auto value font size . #17292, @torkelo

Bug Fixes

• Auth Proxy: Resolve database is locked errors. #17274, @marefr
• Database: Retry transaction if sqlite returns database is locked error. #17276, @marefr
• Explore: Fixes so clicking in a Prometheus Table the query is filtered by clicked value. #17083, @hugohaggmark
• Singlestat: Fixes issue with value placement and line wraps. #17249, @torkelo
• Tech: Update jQuery to 3.4.1 to fix issue on iOS 10 based browers as well as Chrome 53.x . #17290, @timbutler

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6.2.0 (2019-05-22)

Bug Fixes

• BarGauge: Fix for negative min values. #17192, @torkelo
• Gauge/BarGauge: Fix for issues editing min & max options. #17174
• Search: Make only folder name only open search with current folder filter. #17226
• AzureMonitor: Revert to clearing chained dropdowns. #17212

Breaking Changes

• Plugins: Data source plugins that process hidden queries need to add a "hiddenQueries: true" attribute in plugin.json. #17124, @ryantxu

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6.2.0-beta2 (2019-05-15)

Features / Enhancements

• Plugins: Support templated urls in plugin routes. #16599, @briangann
• Packaging: New MSI windows installer package**. #17073, @briangann

Bug Fixes

• Dashboard: Fixes blank dashboard after window resize with panel without title. #16942, @torkelo
• Dashboard: Fixes lazy loading & expanding collapsed rows on mobile. #17055, @torkelo
• Dashboard: Fixes scrolling issues for Edge browser. #17033, @jschill
• Dashboard: Show refresh button in first kiosk(tv) mode. #17032, @torkelo
• Explore: Fix empty result from datasource should render logs container. #16999, @marefr
• Explore: Fixes so clicking in a Prometheus Table the query is filtered by clicked value. #17083, @hugohaggmark
• Explore: Makes it possible to zoom in Explore/Loki/Graph without exception. #16991, @hugohaggmark
• Gauge: Fixes orientation issue after switching from BarGauge to Gauge. #17064, @torkelo
• GettingStarted: Fixes layout issues in getting started panel. #16941, @torkelo
• InfluxDB: Fix HTTP method should default to GET. #16949, @StephenSorriaux
• Panels: Fixed alert icon position in panel header. #17070, @torkelo
• Panels: Fixes panel error tooltip not showing. #16993, @torkelo
• Plugins: Fix how datemath utils are exposed to plugins. #16976, @marefr
• Singlestat: fixed centering issue for very small panels. #16944, @torkelo
• Search: Scroll issue in dashboard search in latest Chrome. #17054, @jschill
• Docker: Prevent a permission denied error when writing files to the default provisioning directory. #16831, @wmedlar
• Gauge: Adds background shade to gauge track and improves height usage. #17019, @torkelo
• RemoteCache: Avoid race condition in Set causing error on insert. . #17082, @bergquist

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6.2.0-beta1 (2019-05-07)

Features / Enhancements

• Admin: Add more stats about roles. #16667, @bergquist
• Alert list panel: Support variables in filters. #16892, @psschand
• Alerting: Adjust label for send on all alerts to default . #16554, @simPod
• Alerting: Makes timeouts and retries configurable. #16259, @kobehaha
• Alerting: No notification when going from no data to pending. #16905, @bergquist
• Alerting: Pushover alert, support for different sound for OK. #16525, @Hofls
• Auth: Enable retries and transaction for some db calls for auth tokens . #16785, @bergquist
• AzureMonitor: Adds support for multiple subscriptions per datasource. #16922, @daniellee
• Bar Gauge: New multi series enabled gauge like panel with horizontal and vertical layouts and 3 display modes. #16918, @torkelo
• Build: Upgrades to golang 1.12.4. #16545, @bergquist
• CloudWatch: Update AWS/IoT metric and dimensions. #16337, @nonamef
• Config: Show user-friendly error message instead of stack trace. #16564, @Hofls
• Dashboard: Enable filtering dashboards in search by current folder. #16790, @dprokop
• Dashboard: Lazy load out of view panels . #15554, @ryantxu
• DataProxy: Restore Set-Cookie header after proxy request. #16838, @marefr
• Datasources: Add pattern validation for time input on datasource config pages. #16837, @aocenas
• Elasticsearch: Add 7.x version support. #16646, @alcidesv
• Explore: Adds reconnect for failing datasource. #16226, @hugohaggmark
• Explore: Support user timezone. #16469, @marefr
• InfluxDB: Add support for POST HTTP verb. #16690, @StephenSorriaux
• Loki: Search is now case insensitive. #15948, @steven-sheehy
• OAuth: Update jwt regexp to include =. #16521, @DanCech
• Panels: No title will no longer make panel header take up space. #16884, @torkelo
• Prometheus: Adds tracing headers for Prometheus datasource. #16724, @svagner
• Provisioning: Add API endpoint to reload provisioning configs. #16579, @aocenas
• Provisioning: Do not allow deletion of provisioned dashboards. #16211, @aocenas
• Provisioning: Interpolate env vars in provisioning files. #16499, @aocenas
• Security: Add new setting allow_embedding. #16853, @marefr
• Security: Store datasource passwords encrypted in secureJsonData. #16175, @aocenas
• UX: Improve Grafana usage for smaller screens. #16783, @torkelo
• Units: Add angle units, Arc Minutes and Seconds. #16271, @Dripoul

Bug Fixes

• Build: Fix bug where grafana didn't start after mysql on rpm packages. #16917, @bergquist
• CloudWatch: Fixes query order not affecting series ordering & color. #16408, @mtanda
• CloudWatch: Use default alias if there is no alias for metrics. #16732, @utkarshcmu
• Config: Fixes bug where timeouts for alerting was not parsed correctly. #16784, @aocenas
• Elasticsearch: Fix view percentiles metric in table without date histogram. #15686, @Igor-Ratsuk
• Explore: Prevents histogram loading from killing Prometheus instance. #16768, @hugohaggmark
• Graph: Allow override decimals to fully override. #16414, @torkelo
• Mixed Datasource: Fix error when one query is disabled. #16409, @marefr
• Search: Fixes search limits and adds a page parameter. #16458, @torkelo
• Security: Responses from backend should not be cached. #16848, @marefr

Breaking changes

• Gauge Panel: The suffix / prefix options have been removed from the new Guage Panel (introduced in v6.0). #16870.

6.1.6 (2019-04-29)

Features / Enhancements

• Security: Bump jQuery to 3.4.0 . #16761, @dprokop

Bug Fixes

• Playlist: Fix loading dashboards by tag. #16727, @marefr

6.1.5 (2019-04-29)

• Security: Urgent security patch release. Please read more in our blog

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6.1.4 (2019-04-16)

Bug Fixes

• DataPanel: Added missing built-in interval variables to scopedVars. #16556, @torkelo
• Explore: Adds maxDataPoints to data source query options . #16513, @hugohaggmark
• Explore: Fixes so intervals are recalculated on run query. #16510, @hugohaggmark
• Heatmap: Fix for empty graph when panel is too narrow (#16378). #16460, @alexanderzobnin
• Heatmap: Fixed auto decimals when bucket name is not number. #16609, @torkelo
• QueryInspector: Now shows error responses again. #16514, @torkelo

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6.1.3 (2019-04-09)

Bug Fixes

• Graph: Fixed auto decimals in legend values for some units like ms and s. #16455, @torkelo
• Graph: Fixed png rendering with legend to the right. #16463, @torkelo
• Singlestat: Use decimals when manually specified. #16451, @torkelo
• UI Switch: Fix broken UI switches. Fixes Default Data Source switch, Explore Logs switches, Gauge option switches. #16303, @dprokop

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6.1.2 (2019-04-08)

Bug Fixes

• Graph: Fixed series legend color for hidden series. #16438, @Ijin08
• Graph: Fixed tooltip highlight on white theme. #16429, @torkelo
• Styles: Fixed menu hover highlight border. #16431, @torkelo
• Singlestat Panel: Correctly use the override decimals. #16413, @torkelo

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• Alerting: Notification channel http api fixes. #16379, @marefr
• Graphite: Editing graphite query function now works again. #16390, @torkelo
• Playlist: Kiosk & auto fit panels modes are working normally again . #16403, @torkelo
• QueryEditors: Toggle edit mode now always work on slower computers. #16394, @seanlaff

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• CloudWatch: Fix for dimension value list when changing dimension key. #16356, @mtanda
• Graphite: Editing function arguments now works again. #16297, @torkelo
• InfluxDB: Fix tag names with periods in alert evaluation. #16255, @floyd-may
• PngRendering: Fix for panel height & title centering . #16351, @torkelo
• Templating: Fix for editing query variables. #16299, @torkelo