⚠️ Breaking Change
Impact Score: 7/10
Grafana: 10.2.1 (2023-11-14)
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Component: grafana · Channel: stable. Automated analysis, not a compatibility certification. How this works.
Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
Breaking-change evidence from the source
Breaking changes For the existing backend mode users who have table visualization might see some inconsistencies on their panels. We have updated the table column naming. This will potentially affect field transformations and/or field overrides. To resolve this either:
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v10.2.1. Source highlight: Download page
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
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📊 Product & Engineering Leads
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⚙️ DevOps & Security
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⚠️ Breaking Changes & Deprecations (1)
- Breaking changes For the existing backend mode users who have table visualization might see some inconsistencies on their panels. We have updated the table column naming. This will potentially affect field transformations and/or field overrides. To resolve this either:
✨ New Features & Capabilities (1)
- **Stat:** Add panel option to control wide layout. #78012, @nmarrs
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- **Dashboards:** Fix dashboard listing when user can't list any folders. #77988, @IevaVasiljeva
- **Search:** Modify query for better performance. #77713, @papagian
- **Dashboards:** Fix issue causing crashes when saving new dashboard. #77641, @kaydelaney
- **RBAC:** Allow scoping access to root level dashboards. #77608, @IevaVasiljeva
- **CloudWatch Logs:** Add labels to alert and expression queries. #77594, @iwysiu
- **Bug Fix:** Respect data source version when provisioning. #77542, @andresmgot
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
[Download page](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/10.2.1)
[What's new highlights](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/whatsnew/)
### Features and enhancements
- **Stat:** Add panel option to control wide layout. [#78012](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/78012), [@nmarrs](https://github.com/nmarrs)
### Bug fixes
- **Dashboards:** Fix dashboard listing when user can't list any folders. [#77988](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/77988), [@IevaVasiljeva](https://github.com/IevaVasiljeva)
- **Search:** Modify query for better performance. [#77713](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/77713), [@papagian](https://github.com/papagian)
- **Dashboards:** Fix issue causing crashes when saving new dashboard. [#77641](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/77641), [@kaydelaney](https://github.com/kaydelaney)
- **RBAC:** Allow scoping access to root level dashboards. [#77608](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/77608), [@IevaVasiljeva](https://github.com/IevaVasiljeva)
- **CloudWatch Logs:** Add labels to alert and expression queries. [#77594](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/77594), [@iwysiu](https://github.com/iwysiu)
- **Bug Fix:** Respect data source version when provisioning. [#77542](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/77542), [@andresmgot](https://github.com/andresmgot)
- **Explore:** Fix support for angular based datasource editors. [#77505](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/77505), [@Elfo404](https://github.com/Elfo404)
- **Plugins:** Fix status_source always being "plugin" in plugin request logs. [#77436](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/77436), [@xnyo](https://github.com/xnyo)
- **InfluxDB:** Fix aliasing with $measurement or $m on backend mode. [#77383](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/77383), [@itsmylife](https://github.com/itsmylife)
- **InfluxDB:** Fix parsing multiple tags on backend mode. [#77382](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/77382), [@itsmylife](https://github.com/itsmylife)
- **Explore:** Fix panes vertical scrollbar not being draggable. [#77344](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/77344), [@Elfo404](https://github.com/Elfo404)
- **Explore:** Avoid reinitializing graph on every query run. [#77290](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/77290), [@Elfo404](https://github.com/Elfo404)
- **Bug fix:** Correctly set permissions on provisioned dashboards. [#77230](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/77230), [@IevaVasiljeva](https://github.com/IevaVasiljeva)
- **InfluxDB:** Fix adhoc filter calls by properly checking optional parameter in metricFindQuery. [#77145](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/77145), [@itsmylife](https://github.com/itsmylife)
- **InfluxDB:** Fix table parsing with backend mode. [#76990](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/76990), [@itsmylife](https://github.com/itsmylife)
- **Alerting:** Alert rule constraint violations return as 400s in provisioning API. [#76978](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/76978), [@alexweav](https://github.com/alexweav)
- **PresenceIndicators:** Do not retry failed views/recent API calls. (Enterprise)
- **Analytics:** Use panel renderer rather than legacy flot graph. (Enterprise)
### Breaking changes
For the existing backend mode users who have table visualization might see some inconsistencies on their panels. We have updated the table column naming. This will potentially affect field transformations and/or field overrides. To resolve this either:
- Update transformation
- Update field override Issue [#76990](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/76990)