Release Notes v6.2.x

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Grafana v6.2 brings new features, many enhancements and bug fixes.

6.2.5 (2019-06-25)

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

6.2.4 (2019-06-18)

Bug Fixes

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

6.2.3 (2019-06-17)

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

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

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

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

6.2.0-beta2 (2019-05-15)

Features / Enhancements

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

6.2.0-beta1 (2019-05-07)

Features / Enhancements

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.
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your website download has a broken link for the msi…

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Thanks @sparki we’ll looking into it right now.

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@sparki msi should be fixed for latest release v6.2.1.