Release Notes v6.3.x

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Grafana v6.3 brings new features, many enhancements and bug fixes.

6.3.7 (2019-11-22)

Bug Fixes

  • CloudWatch: Fix high CPU load #20579

6.3.6 (2019-09-23)

Features / Enhancements

  • Metrics: Adds setting for turning off total stats metrics. #19142, @marefr

Bug Fixes

  • Database: Rewrite system statistics query to perform better. #19178, @papagian

  • Explore: Fixes error when switching from prometheus to loki data sources. #18599, @kaydelaney

6.3.5 (2019-09-02)

Upgrades

Bug Fixes

  • Dashboard: Fixes dashboards init failed loading error for dashboards with panel links that had missing properties. #18786, @torkelo
  • Editor: Fixes issue where only entire lines were being copied. #18806, @kaydelaney
  • Explore: Fixes query field layout in splitted view for Safari browsers. #18654, @hugohaggmark
  • LDAP: multildap + ldap integration. #18588, @markelog
  • Profile/UserAdmin: Fix for user agent parser crashes grafana-server on 32-bit builds. #18788, @marcusolsson
  • Prometheus: Prevents panel editor crash when switching to Prometheus datasource. #18616, @hugohaggmark
  • Prometheus: Changes brace-insertion behavior to be less annoying. #18698, @kaydelaney

6.3.4 (2019-08-29)

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

6.3.3 (2019-08-15)

Bug Fixes

  • Annotations: Fix failing annotation query when time series query is cancelled. #18532, @dprokop
  • Auth: Do not set SameSite cookie attribute if cookie_samesite is none. #18462, @papagian
  • DataLinks: Apply scoped variables to data links correctly. #18454, @dprokop
  • DataLinks: Respect timezone when displaying datapoint’s timestamp in graph context menu. #18461, @dprokop
  • DataLinks: Use datapoint timestamp correctly when interpolating variables. #18459, @dprokop
  • Explore: Fix loading error for empty queries. #18488, @davkal
  • Graph: Fixes legend issue clicking on series line icon and issue with horizontal scrollbar being visible on windows. #18563, @torkelo
  • Graphite: Avoid glob of single-value array variables . #18420, @gotjosh
  • Prometheus: Fix queries with label_replace remove the $1 match when loading query editor. #18480, @hugohaggmark
  • Prometheus: More consistently allows for multi-line queries in editor. #18362, @kaydelaney
  • TimeSeries: Assume values are all numbers. #18540, @ryantxu

6.3.2 (2019-08-07)

Bug Fixes

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

6.3.1 (2019-08-07)

Bug Fixes

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

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

6.3.0-beta4 (2019-08-02)

Features / Enhancements

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

6.3.0-beta3 (2019-08-02)

Bug Fixes

  • OAuth: Fix “missing saved state” OAuth login failure due to SameSite cookie policy. #18332, @papagian
  • cli: fix for recognizing when in dev mode… #18334, @xlson

6.3.0-beta2 (2019-07-26)

Features / Enhancements

Bug Fixes

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