Release Notes v6.6.x

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Grafana v6.6 brings new features, many enhancements and bug fixes.

Grafana 6.6 comes with a lot of new features and enhancements:

  • Panels: New Stat panel
  • Panels: New News panel
  • New time picker
  • User-configurable units
  • Alerting enhancements
  • Explore: Added log message line wrapping options for logs
  • Graphite: Added Metrictank dashboard to Graphite datasource
  • Loki: Support for template variable queries
  • Postgres/MySQL/MSSQL: Added support for region annotations
  • Explore: Added ability to specify step with Prometheus queries
  • Security: Added disabled option for cookie samesite attribute
  • TablePanel, GraphPanel: Exclude hidden columns from CSV

Breaking changes

  • PagerDuty: Change payload.custom_details field in PagerDuty notification to be a JSON object instead of a string.
  • Security: The [security] setting cookie_samesite configured to none now renders cookies with SameSite=None attribute compared to before where no SameSite attribute was added to cookies. To get the old behavior, use value disabled instead of none. Refer to Upgrade Grafana for more information.

6.6.2 (2020-02-20)

Features / Enhancements

Bug Fixes

  • @grafana/ui: Fix displaying of bars in React Graph. #21968, @ivanahuckova
  • API: Fix redirect issue when configured to use a subpath. #21652, @briangann
  • API: Improve recovery middleware when response already been written. #22256, @marefr
  • Auth: Don’t rotate auth token when requests are cancelled by client. #22106, @bergquist
  • Docker: Downgrade to 18.04 LTS base image. #22313, @aknuds1
  • Elasticsearch: Fix auto interval for date histogram in explore logs mode. #21937, @ivanahuckova
  • Image Rendering: Fix PhantomJS compatibility with es2016 node dependencies. #21677, @dprokop
  • Links: Assure base url when single stat, panel and data links are built. #21956, @dprokop
  • Loki, Prometheus: Fix PromQL and LogQL syntax highlighting. #21944, @ivanahuckova
  • OAuth: Enforce auto_assign_org_id setting when role mapping enabled using Generic OAuth. #22268, @aknuds1
  • Prometheus: Updates explore query editor to prevent it from throwing error on edit. #21605, @Estrax
  • Server: Reorder cipher suites for better security. #22101, @tofu-rocketry
  • TimePicker: fixing weird behavior with calendar when switching between months/years . #22253, @mckn

6.6.1 (2020-02-06)

Bug Fixes

  • Annotations: Change indices and rewrites annotation find query to improve database query performance. #21915, @papagian, @marefr, @kylebrandt
  • Azure Monitor: Fix Application Insights API key field to allow input. #21738, @shavonn
  • BarGauge: Fix so we properly display the “no result” value when query returns empty result. #21791, @mckn
  • Datasource: Show access (Browser/Server) select on the Prometheus datasource. #21833, @jorgelbg
  • DatasourceSettings: Fixed issue navigating away from data source settings page. #21841, @torkelo
  • Graph Panel: Fix typo in thresholds form. #21903, @orendain
  • Graphite: Fixed issue with functions with multiple required params and no defaults caused params that could not be edited (groupByNodes groupByTags). #21814, @torkelo
  • Image Rendering: Fix render of graph panel legend aligned to the right using Grafana image renderer plugin/service. #21854, @marefr
  • Metrics: Adds back missing summary quantiles. #21858, @kogent
  • OpenTSDB: Adds back missing ngInject to make it work again. #21796, @marefr
  • Plugins: Fix routing in app plugin pages. #21847, @dprokop
  • Prometheus: Fixes default step value for annotation query. #21934, @hugohaggmark
  • Quota: Makes LDAP + Quota work for the first login of a new user. #21949, @xlson
  • StatPanels: Fixed change from singlestat to Gauge / BarGauge / Stat where default min & max (0, 100) was copied . #21820, @torkelo
  • TimePicker: Should display in kiosk mode. #21816, @evgbibko
  • grafana/toolkit: Fix failing linter when there were lint issues. #21849, @dprokop

6.6.0 (2020-01-27)

Features / Enhancements

  • CloudWatch: Add DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) metrics & dimensions. #21644, @kenju
  • CloudWatch: Auto period snap to next higher period. #21659, @sunker
  • Template variables: Add error for failed query variable on time range update. #21731, @tskarhed
  • XSS: Sanitize column link. #21735, @tskarhed

Bug Fixes

  • Elasticsearch: Fix adhoc variable filtering for logs query. #21346, @ceh
  • Explore: Fix colors for log level when level value is capitalised. #21646, @ivanahuckova
  • Explore: Fix context view in logs, where some rows may have been filtered out… #21729, @aocenas
  • Loki: Fix Loki with repeated panels and interpolation for Explore. #21685, @ivanahuckova
  • SQLStore: Fix PostgreSQL failure to create organisation for first time. #21648, @papagian

6.6.0-beta1 (2020-01-20)

Features / Enhancements

Bug Fixes

  • API: Optionally list expired API keys. #20468, @papagian
  • Alerting: Fix custom_details to be a JSON object instead of a string in PagerDuty notifier. #21150, @tehGoti
  • Alerting: Fix image rendering and uploading timeout preventing to send alert notifications. #21536, @marefr
  • Alerting: Fix panic in dingding notifier . #20378, @csyangchen
  • Alerting: Fix template query validation logic. #20721, @okhowang
  • Alerting: If no permission to clear history, keep the historical data. #19007, @lzdw
  • Alerting: Unpausing a non-paused alert rule should not change status to Unknown. #21375, @vikkyomkar
  • Api: Fix returned message when enabling, disabling and deleting a non-existing user. #21391, @dpavlos
  • Auth: Rotate auth tokens at the end of requests. #21347, @woodsaj
  • Azure Monitor: Fixes error using azure monitor credentials with log analytics and non-default cloud. #21032, @shavonn
  • CLI: Return error and aborts when plugin file extraction fails. #20849, @marefr
  • CloudWatch: Multi-valued template variable dimension alias fix. #21541, @sunker
  • Dashboard: Disable draggable panels on small devices. #20629, @peterholmberg
  • DataLinks: Links with ${__value.time} do not work when clicking on first result . #20019, @dweineha
  • Explore: Fix showing of results in selected timezone (UTC/local). #20812, @ivanahuckova
  • Explore: Fix timepicker when browsing back after switching datasource. #21454, @ivanahuckova
  • Explore: Sync timepicker and logs after live-tailing stops. #20979, @ivanahuckova
  • Graph: Fix when clicking a plot on a touch device we won’t display the annotation menu. #21479, @mckn
  • OAuth: Fix role mapping from id token. #20300, @seanson
  • Plugins: Add appSubUrl string to config pages. #21414, @Maddin-619
  • Provisioning: Start provision dashboards after Grafana server have started. #21564, @marefr
  • Render: Use https as protocol when rendering if HTTP2 enabled. #21600, @marefr
  • Security: Use same cookie settings for all cookies. #19787, @jeffdesc
  • Singlestat: Support empty value map texts. #20952, @hendrikvh
  • Units: Custom suffix and prefix units can now be specified, for example custom currency & SI & time formats. #20763, @ryantxu
  • grafana/ui: Do not build grafana/ui in strict mode as it depends on non-strict libs. #21319, @dprokop
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Hello @grafana.com,

short question: according to the changelog at
https://hub.docker.com/r/grafana/grafana/

so far only 6.5.0-beta was released as docker container - is this correct?

When will the docker container for 6.6.1 be available?

Thanks for a short reply.

cu,
agerhard

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@agerhard Every new release of Grafana pushes a new docker image. Please have a look at Docker and you should see that 6.6.1 is available there. We only update the docker hub changelog when there have been actual changes made to the docker image. Will have a look and see if we can make this more clear in the docker hub readme.

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Hello Marcus,

thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Checking the link yesterday at first did not help me, but today after typing the 6.6.1 into the tag field the release is visible.

Cu,
agerhard