Release Notes v6.1.x

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The Grafana 6.1 release contains two major highlights and tons of small changes and fixes.

6.1.6 (2019-04-29)

Features / Enhancements

Bug Fixes

6.1.5 (2019-04-29)

File Exfiltration vulnerability Security fix

See security announcement for details.

6.1.4 (2019-04-16)

Bug Fixes

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

6.1.2 (2019-04-08)

Bug Fixes

6.1.1 (2019-04-05)

Bug Fixes

  • 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

6.1.0 (2019-04-03)

Bug Fixes

  • 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

6.1.0-beta1 (2019-03-27)

New major features:

  • Prometheus: Ad hoc Filtering makes it easier to explore data in a Grafana dashboard.
  • Permissions: A new option so that Editors can own dashboards, folders and teams they create. This makes it easier for teams to self-organize when using Grafana.

New Features

  • Prometheus : adhoc filter support #8253, thx @mtanda
  • Permissions : Editors can become admin for dashboards, folders and teams they create. #15977, @xlson

Minor

  • Auth : Support listing and revoking auth tokens via API #15836
  • Alerting : DingDing notification channel now includes alert values. #13825, @athurg
  • Alerting : Notification channel http api enhancements. #16219, @marefr
  • CloudWatch : Update metrics/dimensions list. #16137, @mtanda
  • Cloudwatch : Add AWS RDS MaximumUsedTransactionIDs metric #15077, thx @activeshadow
  • Cache : Adds support for using out of proc caching in the backend #10816
  • Dashboard : New keyboard shortcut d l toggles all Graph legends in a dashboard. #15770, @jsferrei
  • Datasource : Only log connection string in dev environment #16001
  • DataProxy : Add custom header (X-Grafana-User) to data source requests with the current username. #15998, @aocenas
  • DataProxy : Make it possible to add user details to requests sent to the dataproxy #6359 and #15931
  • DataProxy : Adds oauth pass-through option for datasources. #15205, @seanlaff
  • Explore : Hide empty duplicates column in logs viewer. #15982, @steven-sheehy
  • Explore : Make it possible to close left pane of split view. #16155, @dprokop
  • Explore : Move back / forward with browser buttons now works. #16150, @hugohaggmark
  • Explore : Update Loki labels when label selector is opened. #16131, @dprokop
  • Graph Panel : New options for X-axis Min & Max (for histograms). #14877, @papagian
  • Heatmap : You can now choose to hide buckets with zero value. #15934, @alexanderzobnin
  • Heatmap : Middle bucket bound option #15683
  • Heatmap : Reverse order option for changing order of buckets #15683
  • Prometheus : Change alignment of range queries to end before now and not in future. #16110, @davkal
  • Prometheus : Dedup annotations events with same timestamp . #16152, @torkelo
  • SQL : Use default min interval of 1m for all SQL data sources. #15799, @marefr
  • TablePanel : Column color style now works even after removing columns. #16227, @torkelo
  • Templating : Custom variable value now escapes all backslashes properly. #15980, @srid12
  • Templating : Data source variable now supports multi-value for uses cases that involve repeating panels & rows. #15914, @torkelo
  • VictorOps : Adds more information to the victor ops notifiers #15744, thx @zhulongcheng

Bug Fixes

  • Alerting : Don’t include non-existing image in MS Teams notifications. #16116, @SGI495
  • Api : Invalid org invite code #10506
  • Annotations : Fix for native annotations filtered by template variable with pipe. #15515, @marefr
  • Dashboard : Fix for time regions spanning across midnight. #16201, @marefr
  • Datasource : Handles nil jsondata field gracefully #14239
  • Datasource : Empty user/password was not updated when updating datasources #15608, thx @Maddin-619
  • Elasticsearch : Fixes using template variables in the alias field. #16229, @daniellee
  • Elasticsearch : Fix incorrect index pattern padding in alerting queries. #15892, @sandlis
  • Explore : Fix for Prometheus autocomplete not working in Firefox. #16192, @hugohaggmark
  • Explore : Fix for url does not keep query after browser refresh. #16189, @hugohaggmark
  • Gauge : Interpolate scoped variables in repeated gauges #15739
  • Graphite : Fixed issue with using series ref and series by tag. #16111, @torkelo
  • Graphite : Fixed variable quoting when variable value is nummeric. #16149, @torkelo
  • Heatmap : Fixes Y-axis tick labels being in wrong order for some Prometheus queries. #15932, @alexanderzobnin
  • Heatmap : Negative values are now displayed correctly in graph & legend. #15953, @alexanderzobnin
  • Heatmap : legend shows wrong colors for small values #14019
  • InfluxDB : Always close request body even for error status codes. #16207, @ramongtx
  • ManageDashboards : Fix for checkboxes not appearing properly Firefox . #15981, @srid12
  • Playlist : Leaving playlist now always stops playlist . #15791, @peterholmberg
  • Prometheus : fixes regex ad-hoc filters variables with wildcards. #16234, @daniellee
  • TablePanel : Column color style now works even after removing columns. #16227, @torkelo
  • TablePanel : Fix for white text on white background when value is null. #16199, @peterholmberg