Impact Score: 5/10
Grafana: 11.4.1
Source available — automated, not human-reviewed
Component: grafana · Channel: stable. Automated analysis, not a compatibility certification. How this works.
Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v11.4.1. Source highlight: Download page
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
Check the source notes against the package and APIs you use before upgrading.
📊 Product & Engineering Leads
Use the documented changes to assess relevance to your product; release frequency alone is not a quality measure.
⚙️ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
✨ New Features & Capabilities (2)
- **Security:** Update to Go 1.23.5 - Backport to v11.4.x #99123, @Proximyst
- **Security:** Update to Go 1.23.5 - Backport to v11.4.x (Enterprise)
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- **Alerting:** AlertingQueryRunner should skip descendant nodes of invalid queries #97830, @gillesdemey
- **Alerting:** Fix alert rules unpausing after moving rule to different folder #97583, @santihernandezc
- **Alerting:** Fix label escaping in rule export #98649, @moustafab
- **Alerting:** Fix slack image uploading to use new api #98066, @moustafab
- **Azure/GCM:** Improve error display #97594, @aangelisc
- **Dashboards:** Fix issue where filtered panels would not react to variable changes #98734, @oscarkilhed
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
[Download page](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/11.4.1)
[What's new highlights](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/whatsnew/)
### Features and enhancements
- **Security:** Update to Go 1.23.5 - Backport to v11.4.x [#99123](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/99123), [@Proximyst](https://github.com/Proximyst)
- **Security:** Update to Go 1.23.5 - Backport to v11.4.x (Enterprise)
### Bug fixes
- **Alerting:** AlertingQueryRunner should skip descendant nodes of invalid queries [#97830](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/97830), [@gillesdemey](https://github.com/gillesdemey)
- **Alerting:** Fix alert rules unpausing after moving rule to different folder [#97583](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/97583), [@santihernandezc](https://github.com/santihernandezc)
- **Alerting:** Fix label escaping in rule export [#98649](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/98649), [@moustafab](https://github.com/moustafab)
- **Alerting:** Fix slack image uploading to use new api [#98066](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/98066), [@moustafab](https://github.com/moustafab)
- **Azure/GCM:** Improve error display [#97594](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/97594), [@aangelisc](https://github.com/aangelisc)
- **Dashboards:** Fix issue where filtered panels would not react to variable changes [#98734](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/98734), [@oscarkilhed](https://github.com/oscarkilhed)
- **Dashboards:** Fixes issue with panel header showing even when hide time override was enabled [#98747](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/98747), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Dashboards:** Fixes week relative time ranges when weekStart was changed [#98269](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/98269), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Dashboards:** Panel react for `timeFrom` and `timeShift` changes using variables [#98659](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/98659), [@Sergej-Vlasov](https://github.com/Sergej-Vlasov)
- **DateTimePicker:** Fixes issue with date picker showing invalid date [#97971](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/97971), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Fix:** Add support for datasource variable queries [#98119](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/98119), [@sunker](https://github.com/sunker)
- **InfluxDB:** Adhoc filters can use template vars as values [#98786](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/98786), [@bossinc](https://github.com/bossinc)
- **LibraryPanel:** Fallback to panel title if library panel title is not set [#99410](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/99410), [@ivanortegaalba](https://github.com/ivanortegaalba)
### Plugin development fixes & changes
- **Grafana UI:** Re-add react-router-dom as a dependency [#98422](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/98422), [@leventebalogh](https://github.com/leventebalogh)