Grafana v5.2 brings new features, many enhancements and bug fixes. This article will detail the major new features and enhancements.
Release Highlights
- Elasticsearch alerting it’s finally here!
- Native builds for ARM native builds of Grafana for many more platforms!
- Improved Docker image with support for docker secrets
- Security make your Grafana instance more secure
- Prometheus with alignment enhancements
- InfluxDB with support for a new function
- Alerting with alert notification channel type for Discord
- Dashboards & Panels with save & import enhancements
5.2.4 (2018-09-07)
- GrafanaCli: Fixed issue with grafana-cli install plugin resulting in corrupt http response from source error. Fixes #13079
5.2.3 (2018-08-29)
Important fix for LDAP & OAuth login vulnerability
See security announcement for details.
5.2.2 (2018-07-25)
- Prometheus: Fix graph panel bar width issue in aligned prometheus queries #12379
- Dashboard: Dashboard links not updated when changing variables #12506
- Postgres/MySQL/MSSQL: Fix connection leak #12636 #9827
- Plugins: Fix loading of external plugins #12551
- Dashboard: Remove unwanted scrollbars in embedded panels #12589
- Prometheus: Prevent error using $__interval_ms in query #12533, thx @mtanda
5.2.1 (2018-06-29)
- Auth Proxy: Important security fix for whitelist of IP address feature #12444
- UI: Fix - Grafana footer overlapping page #12430
- Logging: Errors should be reported before crashing #12438
5.2.0 (2018-06-27)
Minor
- Plugins: Handle errors correctly when loading datasource plugin #12383 thx @rozetko
- Render: Enhance error message if phantomjs executable is not found #11868
- Dashboard: Set correct text in drop down when variable is present in url #11968
5.2.0-beta3 fixes
5.2.0-beta3 (2018-06-21)
- Build: All rpm packages should be signed #12359
5.2.0-beta2 (2018-06-20)
- Dashboard: Import dashboard to folder #10796
Minor
- Permissions: Important security fix for API keys with viewer role #12343
- Dashboard: Fix so panel titles doesn’t wrap #11074
- Dashboard: Prevent double-click when saving dashboard #11963
- Dashboard: AutoFocus the add-panel search filter #12189 thx @ryantxu
- Units: W/m2 (energy), l/h (flow) and kPa (pressure) #11233, thx @flopp999
- Units: Litre/min (flow) and milliLitre/min (flow) #12282, thx @flopp999
- Alerting: Fix mobile notifications for Microsoft Teams alert notifier #11484, thx @manacker
- Influxdb: Add support for mode function #12286
- Cloudwatch: Fixes panic caused by bad timerange settings #12199
- Auth Proxy: Whitelist proxy IP address instead of client IP address #10707
- User Management: Make sure that a user always has a current org assigned #11076
- Snapshots: Fix: annotations not properly extracted leading to incorrect rendering of annotations #12278
- LDAP: Allow use of DN in group_search_filter_user_attribute and member_of #3132, thx @mmolnar
- Graph: Fix legend decimals precision calculation #11792
- Dashboard: Make sure to process panels in collapsed rows when exporting dashboard #12256
5.2.0-beta1 fixes
- Dashboard: Dashboard link doesn’t work when “As dropdown” option is checked #12315
- Dashboard: Fix regressions after save modal changes, including adhoc template issues #12240
- Docker: Config keys ending with _FILE are not respected #170
5.2.0-beta1 (2018-06-05)
- Elasticsearch: Alerting support #5893, thx @WPH95
- Build: Crosscompile and packages Grafana on arm, windows, linux and darwin #11920, thx @fg2it
- Login: Change admin password after first login #11882
- Alert list panel: Updated to support filtering alerts by name, dashboard title, folder, tags #11500, #8168, #6541
Minor
- Dashboard: Modified time range and variables are now not saved by default #10748, #8805
- Graph: Show invisible highest value bucket in histogram #11498
- Dashboard: Enable “Save As…” if user has edit permission #11625
- Prometheus: Query dates are now step-aligned #10434
- Prometheus: Table columns order now changes when rearrange queries #11690, thx @mtanda
- Variables: Fix variable interpolation when using multiple formatting types #11800, thx @svenklemm
- Dashboard: Fix date selector styling for dark/light theme in time picker control #11616
- Discord: Alert notification channel type for Discord, #7964 thx @jereksel,
- InfluxDB: Support SELECT queries in templating query, #5013
- InfluxDB: Support count distinct aggregation #11645, thx @kichristensen
- Dashboard: JSON Model under dashboard settings can now be updated & changes saved, #1429, thx @jereksel
- Security: Fix XSS vulnerabilities in dashboard links #11813
- Singlestat: Fix “time of last point” shows local time when dashboard timezone set to UTC #10338
- Prometheus: Add support for passing timeout parameter to Prometheus #11788, thx @mtanda
- Login: Add optional option sign out url for generic oauth #9847, thx @roidelapluie
- Login: Use proxy server from environment variable if available #9703, thx @iyeonok
- Invite users: Friendlier error message when smtp is not configured #12087, thx @thurt
- Graphite: Don’t send distributed tracing headers when using direct/browser access mode #11494
- Sidenav: Show create dashboard link for viewers if at least editor in one folder #11858
- SQL: Second epochs are now correctly converted to ms. #12085
- Singlestat: Fix singlestat threshold tooltip #11971
- Dashboard: Hide grid controls in fullscreen/low-activity views #11771
- Dashboard: Validate uid when importing dashboards #11515
- Docker: Support for env variables ending with _FILE grafana-docker #166, thx @efrecon
- Alert list panel: Show alerts for user with viewer role #11167
- Provisioning: Verify checksum of dashboards before updating to reduce load on database #11670
- Provisioning: Support symlinked files in dashboard provisioning config files #11958
- Dashboard list panel: Search dashboards by folder #11525
- Sidenav: Always show server admin link in sidenav if grafana admin #11657
Thanks!