# Grafana v11.5.3 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Grafana (https://grafana.com)
- **Version:** v11.5.3
- **Released:** Mar 25, 2025
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/grafana/updates/v11.5.3/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v11.5.3. Source highlight: Download page

## New Features
- **Chore:** Bump Go to 1.23.7 #101581, @macabu
- **Chore:** Bump Go to 1.23.7 (Enterprise)

## Bug Fixes
- **Alerting:** Fix token-based Slack image upload to work with channel names #101078, @JacobsonMT
- **Auth:** Fix AzureAD config UI's ClientAuthentication dropdown #100869, @mgyongyosi
- **Dashboard:** Fix the unintentional time range and variables updates on saving #101671, @harisrozajac
- **Dashboards:** Fix missing `v/e/i` keybindings to return back to dashboard #102365, @mdvictor
- **InfluxDB:** Improve handling of template variables contained in regular expressions (InfluxQL) #100977, @aangelisc
- **Org redirection:** Fix linking between orgs #102089, @ashharrison90