# Grafana v11.5.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Grafana (https://grafana.com)
- **Version:** v11.5.0
- **Released:** Jan 28, 2025
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/grafana/updates/v11.5.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v11.5.0. Source highlight: Download page

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- Breaking changes - **Loki:** Default to `/labels` API with `query` param instead of `/series` API [#97935](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/97935), [@svennergr](https://github.com/svennergr)

## New Features
- CloudMigration:** Create authapi service #96581, @leandro-deveikis
- **Alerting:** Add new button for exporting new alert rule in HCL format #96785, @soniaAguilarPeiron
- **Alerting:** Add option to show inactive alerts in alert list panel #96888, @bradleypettit
- **Alerting:** Add state_periodic_save_batch_size config option #98019, @alexander-akhmetov
- **Alerting:** Change default for max_attempts to 3. #97461, @stevesg
- **Alerting:** Consume k8s API for notification policies tree #96147, @konrad147

## Bug Fixes
- **Alerting:** AlertingQueryRunner should skip descendant nodes of invalid queries #97528, @gillesdemey
- **Alerting:** Allow notification policy filters to match quoted matchers #98525, @gillesdemey
- **Alerting:** Fix alert rule list view summaries #98433, @yincongcyincong
- **Alerting:** Fix alert rules unpausing after moving rule to different folder #97580, @santihernandezc
- **Alerting:** Fix ash not showing history graph in firefox #98128, @soniaAguilarPeiron
- **Alerting:** Fix bug when saving a rule more than once #96658, @soniaAguilarPeiron