Impact Score: 5/10
Grafana: 10.4.1 (2024-03-20)
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Component: grafana · Channel: stable. Automated analysis, not a compatibility certification. How this works.
Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v10.4.1. 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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✨ New Features & Capabilities (3)
- **Alerting:** Add "Keep Last State" backend functionality. #84406, @rwwiv
- **Postgres:** Allow disabling SNI on SSL-enabled connections. #84249, @papagian
- **DataQuery:** Track panel plugin id not type. #83164, @torkelo
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- **Elasticsearch:** Fix legend for alerting, expressions and previously frontend queries. #84685, @ivanahuckova
- **Alerting:** Fix optional fields requiring validation rule. #84595, @gillesdemey
- **ExtSvcAccounts:** FIX prevent service account deletion. #84511, @gamab
- **Loki:** Fix null pointer exception in case request returned an error. #84401, @svennergr
- **Dashboard:** Fix issue where out-of-view shared query panels caused blank dependent panels. #84197, @kaydelaney
- **Auth:** Only call rotate token if we have a session expiry cookie. #84181, @kalleep
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
[Download page](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/10.4.1)
[What's new highlights](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/whatsnew/)
### Features and enhancements
- **Alerting:** Add "Keep Last State" backend functionality. [#84406](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/84406), [@rwwiv](https://github.com/rwwiv)
- **Postgres:** Allow disabling SNI on SSL-enabled connections. [#84249](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/84249), [@papagian](https://github.com/papagian)
- **DataQuery:** Track panel plugin id not type. [#83164](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/83164), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
### Bug fixes
- **Elasticsearch:** Fix legend for alerting, expressions and previously frontend queries. [#84685](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/84685), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Alerting:** Fix optional fields requiring validation rule. [#84595](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/84595), [@gillesdemey](https://github.com/gillesdemey)
- **ExtSvcAccounts:** FIX prevent service account deletion. [#84511](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/84511), [@gamab](https://github.com/gamab)
- **Loki:** Fix null pointer exception in case request returned an error. [#84401](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/84401), [@svennergr](https://github.com/svennergr)
- **Dashboard:** Fix issue where out-of-view shared query panels caused blank dependent panels. [#84197](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/84197), [@kaydelaney](https://github.com/kaydelaney)
- **Auth:** Only call rotate token if we have a session expiry cookie. [#84181](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/84181), [@kalleep](https://github.com/kalleep)
- **Serviceaccounts:** Add ability to add samename SA for different orgs. [#83953](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/83953), [@eleijonmarck](https://github.com/eleijonmarck)
- **GenAI:** Update the component only when the response is fully generated. [#83895](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/83895), [@ivanortegaalba](https://github.com/ivanortegaalba)
- **Tempo:** Better fallbacks for metrics query. [#83688](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/83688), [@adrapereira](https://github.com/adrapereira)
- **Tempo:** Add template variable interpolation for filters. [#83667](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/83667), [@joey-grafana](https://github.com/joey-grafana)
- **Alerting:** Fix saving evaluation group. [#83234](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/83234), [@soniaAguilarPeiron](https://github.com/soniaAguilarPeiron)
- **QueryVariableEditor:** Select a variable ds does not work. [#83181](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/83181), [@ivanortegaalba](https://github.com/ivanortegaalba)
- **Logs Panel:** Add option extra UI functionality for log context. [#83129](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/83129), [@svennergr](https://github.com/svennergr)