Impact Score: 5/10
Grafana: 11.3.0
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
โก Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v11.3.0. Source highlight: Download page
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
๐ป Software Engineers & Devs
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๐ Product & Engineering Leads
Use the documented changes to assess relevance to your product; release frequency alone is not a quality measure.
โ๏ธ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
โจ New Features & Capabilities (6)
- **Alerting:** Add manage permissions UI logic for Contact Points #92885, @tomratcliffe
- **Alerting:** Allow linking to silence form with `__alert_rule_uid__` value preset #93526, @tomratcliffe
- **Alerting:** Hide query name when using simplified mode in the alert rule #93779, @soniaAguilarPeiron
- **Alerting:** Limit and clean up old alert rules versions #89754, @igloo12
- **Alerting:** Style nits for the simple query mode #93930, @soniaAguilarPeiron
- **Alerting:** Update texts in annotations step #93977, @soniaAguilarPeiron
๐ง Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- **Alerting/Chore:** Fix TimeRangeInput not working across multiple months #93622, @tomratcliffe
- **Alerting:** Fix default value for input in simple condition #94248, @soniaAguilarPeiron
- **Alerting:** Fix eval interval not being saved when creating a new group #93821, @tomratcliffe
- **Alerting:** Fix incorrect permission on POST external rule groups endpoint [CVE-2024-8118] #93940, @alexweav
- **Alerting:** Fix panics when attempting to create an Alertmanager after failing #94023, @santihernandezc
- **DashboardScene:** Fixes url issue with subpath when exiting edit mode #93962, @torkelo
๐ View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
[Download page](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/11.3.0)
[What's new highlights](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/whatsnew/)
### Features and enhancements
- **Alerting:** Add manage permissions UI logic for Contact Points [#92885](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/92885), [@tomratcliffe](https://github.com/tomratcliffe)
- **Alerting:** Allow linking to silence form with `__alert_rule_uid__` value preset [#93526](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/93526), [@tomratcliffe](https://github.com/tomratcliffe)
- **Alerting:** Hide query name when using simplified mode in the alert rule [#93779](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/93779), [@soniaAguilarPeiron](https://github.com/soniaAguilarPeiron)
- **Alerting:** Limit and clean up old alert rules versions [#89754](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/89754), [@igloo12](https://github.com/igloo12)
- **Alerting:** Style nits for the simple query mode [#93930](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/93930), [@soniaAguilarPeiron](https://github.com/soniaAguilarPeiron)
- **Alerting:** Update texts in annotations step [#93977](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/93977), [@soniaAguilarPeiron](https://github.com/soniaAguilarPeiron)
- **Alerting:** Use useProduceNewAlertmanagerConfiguration for contact points [#88456](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/88456), [@gillesdemey](https://github.com/gillesdemey)
- **Auth:** Attach external session info to Grafana session [#93849](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/93849), [@mgyongyosi](https://github.com/mgyongyosi)
- **Auth:** Replace jmespath/go-jmespath with jmespath-community/go-jmespath [#94203](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/94203), [@mgyongyosi](https://github.com/mgyongyosi)
- **CloudMigrations:** Add support for migration of Library Elements (Panels) resources [#93898](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/93898), [@macabu](https://github.com/macabu)
- **Cloudwatch:** Update grafana-aws-sdk [#94155](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/94155), [@iwysiu](https://github.com/iwysiu)
- **Explore Logs:** Preinstall for onprem Grafana instances [#94221](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/94221), [@svennergr](https://github.com/svennergr)
- **ExploreMetrics:** Ensure compatibility with Incremental Querying [#94355](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/94355), [@NWRichmond](https://github.com/NWRichmond)
- **FieldConfig:** Add support for Actions [#92874](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/92874), [@adela-almasan](https://github.com/adela-almasan)
- **Plugin Extensions:** Require meta-data to be defined in `plugin.json` during development mode [#93429](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/93429), [@leventebalogh](https://github.com/leventebalogh)
- **Reporting:** Display template variables in the PDF (Enterprise)
- **Tempo:** Add deprecation notice for Aggregate By [#94050](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/94050), [@joey-grafana](https://github.com/joey-grafana)
### Bug fixes
- **Alerting/Chore:** Fix TimeRangeInput not working across multiple months [#93622](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/93622), [@tomratcliffe](https://github.com/tomratcliffe)
- **Alerting:** Fix default value for input in simple condition [#94248](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/94248), [@soniaAguilarPeiron](https://github.com/soniaAguilarPeiron)
- **Alerting:** Fix eval interval not being saved when creating a new group [#93821](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/93821), [@tomratcliffe](https://github.com/tomratcliffe)
- **Alerting:** Fix incorrect permission on POST external rule groups endpoint [CVE-2024-8118] [#93940](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/93940), [@alexweav](https://github.com/alexweav)
- **Alerting:** Fix panics when attempting to create an Alertmanager after failing [#94023](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/94023), [@santihernandezc](https://github.com/santihernandezc)
- **DashboardScene:** Fixes url issue with subpath when exiting edit mode [#93962](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/93962), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Dashboards:** Enable scenes by default [#93818](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/93818), [@ivanortegaalba](https://github.com/ivanortegaalba)
- **Dashboards:** Fixes view & edit keyboard shortcuts when grafana is behind a subpath [#93955](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/93955), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **ElasticSearch:** Fix errorsource in newInstanceSettings [#93859](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/93859), [@iwysiu](https://github.com/iwysiu)
- **Reporting:** Fix reports on multi-org instance (Enterprise)
- **SubMenu:** Fix expanding sub menu items on touch devices [#93208](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/93208), [@yincongcyincong](https://github.com/yincongcyincong)